Kevin W. Settles has been a research associate at the Institute for Parliamentarism Research (IParl) in Berlin since January 2022. He conducts research on questions of political representation, parliamentary practice and the digital transformation of political communication. At the same time, he works as a proofreading assistant for the Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen (ZParl) active.
His Master's thesis in the degree programme Parliamentary issues and civil society at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg focussed on the understanding of representation by Bundestags during the coronavirus pandemic. In 2020, he was already involved in the coordination of the research project WK-C19 which examined the constituency work of German MPs under pandemic conditions.
He is currently working together with Dr Nadin Fromm on studies on the role and civic image of local elected representatives as part of a qualitative teaching research project at the University of Kassel. He also teaches there in the elective module Qualitative research methods.
His research interests include theories of political representation, the dynamics of political communication under digital conditions, deliberative democratic theory and institutional innovations to strengthen the representational relationship between citizens and political actors.
Schöne, neue vernetzte Welt? – Über die Fragmentierungsproblematik der Öffentlichkeit und ihre Folgen für Prozesse der (politischen) Meinungsbildung, in: Andreas Wagener / Carsten Stark (Eds.): Die Digitalisierung des Politischen. Theoretische und praktische Herausforderungen für die Demokratie, Wiesbaden 2023. (Link)
Volldigital und vielversprechend? Parteiarbeit unter den Vorzeichen der Pandemie, in: Sven T. Siefken (Ed.): Wahlkreisarbeit von Bundestagsabgeordneten. Parlamentarische Repräsentation in der Corona-Krise, Wiesbaden 2021, S. 97-113. (Link)
Alte Gesichter, neue Chancen? Wechsel im Ministerpräsidentenamt nach und zwischen Landtagswahlen (1950 bis 2022), (with Franziska Carstensen and Jakob Hirn), in: Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen (ZParl), vol. 54, 2023, no. 2, pp. 272-297. (Link)
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