Kevin Settles has been a research assistant at the Institute for Parliamentary Research (IParl) since January 2022. In addition to his research activities, he works as a proofreading assistant for the Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen (ZParl). In his master's thesis in the "Parlamentsfragen und Zivilgesellschaft (Parliamentary Issues and Civil Society)" programme at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, he dealt with the understanding of representation among German MPs during the coronavirus crisis. In 2020, he supported the coordination of the research project WK-C19which analysed the constituency work of German MPs under the conditions of the pandemic. He is currently working on a research project at the University of Kassel in collaboration with Dr Nadin Fromm, which is investigating how local elected representatives understand their roles. He is also a lecturer for the elective module Qualitative Research Methods at the University of Kassel. Other areas of interest include fundamental questions of representation theory, the design of political communication and digitalisation in the political sphere.
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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