Political scientist · LMU Munich

The growth and architecture 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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May 2026 SUPA consortium meeting in Oslo, Norway.
May 2026 JEPP Special Issue on the Politics of Simplification approved; serving as guest editor.

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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

Conceptualization and Measuring Regulatory Discretion: Text Analysis of 120 Years of British Legislation

Kosti, N. · Regulation & Governance, 18(3), 761–779, 2024