Publications

Research Articles (Journals)

• Zhirnov, A., Thomczek, J. P., Antonucci, L., Scotto di Vettimo, M., Buma, R., Cristea, V., Kersting, N., Krouwel, A., Lange, S., Lopez Ortega, A., Thompson, J., Die Stefano, R., & Ruggeri, F. (2026). A Populist Axis? Analyzing Connections Between Populist, Economic, and Cultural Dimensions of Political Space.Preprint. Comparative Political Studies. doi: 10.1177/00104140261418623.
• Kerstin, N., Schütte, L., Scotto di Vettimo, M., Lange, S., Thompson, J., Ruggeri, F., di Stefano, R., Buma, R., Cristea, V., Antonucci, L., Krouwel, A., D'Ippoliti, C., & López Ortega, A. (2026). Citizens’ Trust in the European Union During Crisis and Conflicts Across 10 Countries.Preprint. Politics and Governance, 14, 1–21. doi: 10.17645/pag.11116.
• Brovko, O., & Kersting, N. (2025). Participatory budgeting under martial law: the case of Ivano-Frankivsk.Preprint. Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, 33 (3), 583–603. doi: 10.1080/25739638.2025.2573091.
• Zhirnov, A., Thomeczek, J. P., Scotto di Vettimo, M., Ortega, A. L., Krouwel, A., Antonucci, L., Di Stefano, R., & Kersting, N. (2025). How congruent are populist parties with their constituencies? Evidence from the 2019 European Parliament Elections in Italy, the Netherlands, Germany and Sweden.Preprint. Electoral Studies, 94, Article 5. doi: 10.1016/j.electstud.2025.102906.
• Thomeczek, J. P., Zhirnov, A., Scotto di Vettimo, M., Buma, R., Cristea, V., Dolle, M., Kersting, N., Krouwel, A., Lange, S., Lopez Ortega, A., Thompson, J., Antonucci, L., Di Stefano, R., & Ruggeri, F. (2025). One model to rule them all? Choosing two-dimensional spaces for European political landscapes with VAA data.Preprint. Journal of Information Technology & Politics, 1-10. doi: 10.1080/19331681.2025.2469166.
• Kersting, N., & Schütte, L. (2025). Kongruenz und Divergenz zwischen Wählerschaft und Parteien bei der Bundestagswahl 2025.Preprint. Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen, 56 (4), 802–818. doi: 10.5771/0340-1758-2025-4-802.
• Kersting, N., & Shayo, D. P. (2024). Crowdsourced Monitoring von Wahlen in Afrika.Preprint. Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen, 37 (2), 265–285. doi: 10.1515/fjsb-2024-0023.
• Zhirnov, A., Antonucci, L., Thomeczek, J. P., Horvath, L., D'Ippiloto, C., Mongeua Ospina, C. A., Krouwel, A., & Kersting, N. (2023). Precarity and populism: explaining populist outlook and populist voting in Europe through subjective financial and work-related insecurity. European Sociological Review, 40 (4), 704–720. doi: 10.1093/esr/jcad052.
• Kersting, N., & Regalia, M. (2023). Direct democracy and its integrity. The Italian 2020 and the Turkey 2017 constitutional referendums. Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft, 16 (2), 527–544. doi: 10.1007/s12286-022-00552-6.
• Kersting, N., Zavadskaya, M., & Magne, T. (2023). Direct democracy integrity in modern authoritarian systems - The constitutional referendum in Turkey 2017 and Russian plebiscite in 2020. Politics of the Low Countries, 5 (1). doi: 10.5553/PLC/.000046.
• Zhirnov, A., Antonucci, L., Thomeczek, J.-P., Horvath, L., D'Ippoliti, C., Mongeau Ospina, C. A., Krouwel, A., & Kersting, N. (2023). Precarity and populism: explaining populist outlook and populist voting in Europe through subjective financial and work-related insecurity. European Sociological Review, XX. doi: 10.1093/esr/jcad052.
• Kersting, N., & Grömping, M. (2022). Direct democracy integrity and the 2017 constitutional referendum in Turkey: a new research instrument. European Political Science, 21, 216–236. doi: 10.1057/s41304-020-00309-3.
• Kersting, N., Budnik, M., Haase, A., Hedtke, C., & Krahmer, A. (2022). Migrationsbeiräte und demokratische Regression? Akteure, Konflikte und Repräsentation im Vergleich. Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft, 16 (2), 101–126. doi: 10.1007/s12286-022-00526-8.
• Kersting, N. (2022). Kommunalwahl in der Covid 19 Pandemie. Demokratischer Semi-Lockdown als Digitaisierungsschub. Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen, 53 (3), 584–599. doi: 10.5771/0340-1758-2022-3-584.
• Friedländer, B., & Kersting, N. (2022). Joint Production of Public Services in Shrinking Rural Areas in Germany: Results of Exploratory Research. Lex localis - Journal of Local Self-Government, 20 (4), 837–858.
• Kersting, N., & Thomeczek, J.-P. (2022). Bundestagswahl 2021 – Parteienlandschaft, Wählerpräferenzen, Themen und Konflikte. Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen, 2022 (4), 867–883. doi: 10.5771/0340-1758-2022-4-867.
• Kersting, N., & Jähn, S. (2021). Soziale Ungleichheit und quartiersbezogene politische Partizipation. Forschungsjournal Neue Soziale Bewegungen, 34, 14–23. doi: 10.1515/fjsb-2021-0002.
• Kersting, N. (2021). COVID-19-Pandemie und politische Institutionen. Lokale Politik und Wahlen. Politische Vierteljahresschrift, 62.
• Kersting, N. (2021). Participatory Democracy and Sustainability. Deliberative Democratic Innovation and Its Acceptance by Citizens and German Local Councilors. Sustainability, 13 (13). doi: 10.3390/su13137214.

Book Contributions

Research Article (Book Contributions)

• Kersting, N. (2025). Direct democracy integrity and referendums in Italy and Russia: The role of citizenship. in Routledge, Chapman & Hall, Incorporated (eds.), Citizenship and Democratic Innovations in Europe (pp. 139–154). Routledge.
• Kersting, N. (2024). Nachhaltige kommunale Finanzpolitik, Gemeinderat und BürgerInnen. in Frankenberg, D., Korioth, S., Lenk, T., Ranscht-Ostwald, A., Scheller, H., & Woisin, M. (ed.), Schriften zur öffentlichen Verwaltung und öffentlichen WirtschaftFinanz- und Haushaltspolitik im Krisenmodus - Kommunen als Garanten der öffentlichen Daseinsvorsorge im Bundesstaat (1. edt.) (pp. 77–86). Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag.
• Geißel, B., & Kersting, N. (2023). Zur Zukunft von Verfassungsreformen mit Bürgerbeteiligung – Online-Komponenten. in Kersting, N., Baringhorst, S., & Radtke, J. (ed.), Handbuch Digitalisierung und politische Beteiligung (pp. 1–18). Springer VS. doi: 10.1007/978-3-658-31480-4_38-1.
• Kies, R., Östling, A., Valtenbergs, V., Théron, S., Wojcik, S., & Kersting, N. (2023). Inclusiveness and effectiveness of digital participatory experiments in constitutional reforms. in Reuchamps, M., & Welp, Y. (ed.), Deliberative Constitution-making (pp. 110–126). Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003327165.
• Kersting, N. (2023). Constitutional referendums and deliberation. Direct democratic integrity in Russia, Italy, and Turkey. in Reuchamps, M., & Welp, Y. (ed.), Deliberative Constitution-making (pp. 180–198). Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003327165.
• Kersting, N. (2022). South African local governance relations. in Copus, C., Kerley, R., & Jones, A. (ed.), A Modern Guide to Local and Regional Politics (pp. 302–314). Edward Elgar Publishing.
• Kersting, N. (2022). Öffentlichkeit und deliberative und direkte Demokratie. in Borucki, I., Kleinen-von-Königslöw, K., Marschall, S., & Zerback, T. (ed.), Handbuch Politische Kommunikation (pp. 219–233). VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. doi: 10.1007/978-3-658-26233-4_16.
• Kersting, N. (2021). Defekte lokale Demokratie? - Zur Zukunftsfähigkeit der lokalen Selbstverwaltung. in Junkernheinrich, M., Lorig, W. H., & Masser, K. (ed.), Brennpunkte der Kommunalpolitik in Deutschland (pp. 30–49). Nomos.
• Kersting, N., & Graubner, D. (2021). open Government vs. open Data vs. smart City vs. Bürgerbeteiligung? eine (re-)Definition. in Laumer, R. (ed.), Kommunales Open Government (pp. 195–214). Büchner.

Review Articles (Book Contributions)

• Kersting, N., Bebić, D., & Dandoy, R. (2026). E-Democracy: Current and Future Perspectives. in Cataffi, C. (ed.), Contributions to Political SciencePerspectives on Reglobalization (pp. 257–272). Springer Nature. doi: 10.1007/978-3-032-07236-8_15.
• Kersting, N., Navarro, C., & Bonviento, J. H. (2026). Globalizing the Comparative Approach to Local Government and Politics Studies. in Cattafi, C. (ed.), Contributions to Political SciencePerspectives on Reglobalization (pp. 63–74). Springer Nature. doi: 10.1007/978-3-032-07236-8_5.