Political scientist · LMU Munich

The growth, architecture, and simplification of regulation.

I am a political scientist studying the growth of regulation and its interplay with legislation. As a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at LMU Munich, my project EUREG examines variation in regulatory design across EU policy areas. I also lead Work Package 3 of the EU Horizon SUPA project at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, examining how legal design features, such as discretion and complexity, shape rule growth.

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October 2026 Co-organizing "The Simplified State?", a workshop at the ECPR Joint Sessions in Trieste, 1–4 June 2027. Call for papers open (deadline 14 December 2026).
September 2026 New working paper with Timo Seidl: Mapping Europe's Digital Acquis: A Granular History of EU Digital Policymaking.

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Career Civil Servants' Socially Embedded Responses to Democratic Backsliding

Alon Barkat, S., Gilad, S., Kosti, N. & Shpaizman, I. · Perspectives on Politics, 2025