Institute of Political Science

Team from A-Z

Prof. Dr. Karin Ingold

Professorship of Policy Analysis and Environmental Governance (PEGO)

Institute of Political Science

Phone
+41 31 684 53 60
Phone2
+41 31 684 83 31
E-Mail
karin.ingold@unibe.ch
Office
A 162
Postal Address
University Bern
Institute Political Science
Fabrikstrasse 8
3012 Bern
Switzerland

About Karin Ingold

Karin Ingold is a professor at the Institute of Political Science at the University of Bern since August 2011. She is the Vice-President of the Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research (OCCR) and leads the research group of Policy Analysis and Environmental Governance (PEGO) affiliated with the Institute of Political Science at the University of Bern and the Department of Environmental Social Sciences at EAWAG.
Karin Ingold is Associate Editor for Continental Europe for the Journal of Policy & Politics and in the editorial board of the Policy Studies Journal, Swiss Political Science Review, European Policy Analysis Journal, Journal of Public Policy, and Connections. In her research, she is interested in the analysis and design of policy processes and instruments. Through her PhD and recent research, she became a scholar of the Advocacy Coalition Framework and other policy process theories. Methodologically, she mainly developed her skills in the conceptual development and application of social network analysis. Since 2022, Karin Ingold is the president and chair of Proclim, the platform for climate and global change at Scnat https://proclim.scnat.ch/en.

Publications PEGO

2024

  • Fesenfeld, L.; Beiser-McGrath, L.; Sun, Y.; Wicki, M.; Bernauer, T. (2024). Systematic Mapping of Climate and Environmental Framing Experiments and Re-Analysis With Computational Methods Points to Omitted Interaction Bias. PLOS Climate, 3(2), e0000297. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pclm.0000297.
     
  • Bolognesi, T.; Lieberherr, E.; & Fischer, M. (2024) Identifying and explaining policy preferences in Swiss water management. Policy & Politics. 1-24. DOI: 10.1332/03055736Y2023D000000004.

2023

  • Blattner, C. E.; Vicedo-Cabrera, A. M.; Frölicher, T. L.; Ingold, K.; Raible, C. C., & Wyttenbach, J. (2023). How science bolstered a key European climate-change case. Nature, 621(7978), 255-257. DOI: 10.1038/d41586-023-02809-w.
     
  • Montfort, S.; Fesenfeld, L.; Stadelmann-Steffen, I.; & Ingold, K. (2023). Policy Sequencing Can Increase Public Support for Ambitious Climate Policy. Policy and Society, 42(4), 454-477. DOI: 10.1093/polsoc/puad030.
     
  • Nohrstedt, D.; Ingold, K.; Weible, C. M.; Koebele, E. A.; Olofsson, K. L.; Satoh, K.; Jenkins-Smith, H. C. (2023). The Advocacy Coalition Framework: Progress and Emerging Areas. In: Weible, C. M. (Ed.) Theories of The Policy Process (5th ed., pp. 130-160). New York: Routledge. DOI: 10.4324/9781003308201.
     
  • Ingold, K.; Nahrath, S. (2023). Environmental and Spatial Planning Policy. In: Emmenegger, P.; Fossati, F.; Häusermann, S.; Papadopoulos, Y.; Sciarini, P.; Vatter, A. (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Swiss Politics (pp. 642-657). Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1016/j.techsoc.2022.102179.
     
  • Nagel, M.; Kammerer, M. (Eds.). (2023). Tackling Climate Change on the Local Level: A Growing Research Agenda. Review of Policy Research, 40(6), 841-1168. DOI: 10.1111/ropr.12434.
     
  • Zeigermann, U.; Kammerer, M.; Böcher, M. (2023). What Drives Local Communities to Engage in Climate Change Mitigation Activities? Examining the Rural–Urban Divide (Eds.). (2023). In: Nagel, M.; Kammerer, M. (Eds.), Tackling climate change on the local level: A growing research agenda (pp. 894-919). New Haven: John Wiley & Sons. DOI: 10.1111/ropr.12528.
     
  • Huber, M. N.; Fischer, M.; Egli, N. (2023). Cross‐Sectoral Information and Actors' Contact Networks in Natural Resource Governance in the Swiss Alps. Environmental Policy and Governance, 33(4), 311-422. DOI: 10.1002/eet.2036.
     
  • Duygan, M.; Fischer, M.; Ingold, K. (2023). Assessing the Readiness of Municipalities for Digital Process Innovation. Technology in Society, 72, 102179. DOI: 10.1016/j.techsoc.2022.102179.
     
  • Pörtner, L.; von Philipsborn, P.; Fesenfeld, L. (2023). Food Security and Sustainability in Times of Multiple Crises. Ann Nutr Metab (2023) 79 (1): 1–2. DOI: 10.1159/000527743.
     
  • Montfort, S. (2023). Key Predictors for Climate Policy Support and Political Mobilization: The Role of Beliefs and Preferences. PLOS Clim 2(8). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pclm.0000145.
     
  • Varone, F.; Ingold, K. (2023). Switzerland, Public Policy in. In: van Gerven, M.; Rothmayr Allison, C.; Schubert, K. (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Public Policy. Springer, Cham. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-90434-0_54-1.
     
  • Baker, Jack. (2023). “Keeping Promises? Democracies’ Ability to Harmonize Their International and National Climate Commitments.” Global Environmental Politics, 1-31. DOI: 10.1162/glep_a_00709.
     
  • Kammerer, M.; Mueller, S.; Ingold, K.; Gallmann, M. (2023). Climate Governance and Federalism in Switzerland. In: Fenna, A.; Jodoin, S.; Setzer J. (Eds.), Climate Governance and Federalism: A Forum of Federations Comparative Policy Analysis (pp. 285-305). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. DOI: 10.1017/9781009249676.015.
     
  • Fesenfeld, L.; Maier, M.; Brazzola, N.; Stolz, N.; Sun, Y.; Kachi, A. (2023). How Information, Social Norms, and Experience With Novel Meat Substitutes Can Create Positive Political Feedback and Demand-Side Policy Change. Food Policy, 117, 102445. DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2023.102445.
     
  • Braunschweiger, D.; Ingold, K. (2023). What Drives Local Climate Change Adaptation? A Qualitative Comparative Analysis. Environmental Science and Policy. 145: 40-49. DOI:10.1016/j.envsci.2023.03.013.
     
  • Montfort, S.; Fischer, M.; Hollway, J.; Jager, N. (2023). Design Paths of Federal Intergovernmental Cooperation. Policy Studies Journal, 51, 773-792. DOI: 10.1111/psj.12498.
     
  • Hofmann, B.; Ingold, K.; Stamm, C; Ammann, P.; Eggen, R.; Finger, R.; Fuhrimann, S.; Lienert, J.; Mark, J.; McCallum, C.; Probst-Hensch, N.; Reber, U.; Tamm, L.; Wiget, M.; Winkler, M.; Zachmann, L.; Hoffmann, S. (2023). Barriers to evidence use for sustainability: Insights from pesticide policy and practice. Ambio, 52(2), 425–439. DOI: 10.1007/s13280-022-01790-4.
     
  • Stoddart, M. C.; Tindall, D. B.; Brockhaus, M.; Kammerer, M. (2023). Conference of the Parties Meetings as Regularly Scheduled Critical Events for Global Climate Governance: Reflecting on COP 26 and the Glasgow Climate Pact. Society & Natural Resources, 442-450. DOI: 10.1080/08941920.2023.2175284.
     
  • Wiedemann, R.; Ingold, K. (2023). Building Coalitions in a Nascent Subsystem: Investigating Beliefs and Policy Preferences in Ugandan Pesticide Policy. Review of Policy Research, 00, 1-24. DOI: 10.1111/ropr.12540.
     
  • Pärli, R.; Fischer, M.; Späth, L.; Lieberherr, E. (2023). Transdisciplinary Research for Sustainable Development – Doing Research About Research. GAIA, 31(4), 238-242. DOI: 10.3929/ethz-b-000589741.
     
  • Trein, P.; Fischer, M.; Maggetti, M.; Sarti, F. (2023). Empirical Research on Policy Integration: A Review and New Directions. Policy Sciences, 1-20. DOI: 10.1007/s11077-022-09489-9.
     
  • Reber, U.; Ingold, K.; Fischer, M. (2023). The Role of Actors’ Issue and Sector Specialization for Policy Integration in the Parliamentary Arena: An Analysis of Swiss Biodiversity Policy Using Text as Data. Policy Sciences, 95-114. DOI: 10.1007/s11077-022-09490-2. 
     
  • Manny, L. (2023). Socio-Technical Challenges Towards Data-Driven and Integrated Urban Water Management: A Socio-Technical Network Approach. Sustainable Cities and Society, 90, 104360. DOI: 10.1016/J.SCS.2022.104360.

2022

  • Ingold, K. (2022). Studying EU politics through the ACF—key challenges. In: Graziano, P. R.; Tosun, J. (Eds.), Elgar Encyclopedia of European Union Public Policy (pp. 567–574). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. DOI: 10.4337/9781800881112.ch58.
     
  • Wiedemann, R.; Ingold, K. (2022). Solving Cross-Sectoral Policy Problems: Adding a Cross-Sectoral Dimension to Assess Policy Performance. Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, 24(5), 526-539. DOI: 10.1080/1523908X.2021.1960809.
     
  • Angst, M.; Brandenberger, L. (2022). Information Exchange in Governance Networks—Who Brokers Across Political Divides? Governance, 35, 585-608. DOI: 10.1111/gove.12601.
     
  • Martin, M.; Boakye, E.; Boyd, E.; Broadgate, W.; Bustamante, M.; Canadell, J.; Ingold, K.; Zhao, Z. (2022). Ten new insights in climate science 2022. Global Sustainability, 5, E20. DOI:10.1017/sus.2022.17.
     
  • Zeigermann, U.; Kammerer, M.; Böcher, M. (2022). What Drives Local Communities to Engage in Climate Change Mitigation Activities? Examining the Rural–Urban Divide. Review of Policy Research. 1-26. DOI: 10.1111/ropr.12528.
     
  • Tindal, D.; Brockhaus, M.; Stoddart, M.; Kammerer, M. (2022, Nov. 30.). COP27 failed. So why continue with these UN climate summits? The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/cop27-failed-so-why-continue-with-these-un-climate-summits-195348.
     
  • Huber, M. N. (2022). How the qualities of actor-issue interdependencies influence collaboration patterns. Ecology and Society, 27(4). DOI: 10.5751/ES-13536-270406.
     
  • Huber, M. N.; Angst, M.; Fischer, M. (2022). Dataset: Multi-level network dataset of social-ecological interdependencies in ten Swiss wetlands based on qualitative interviews and quantitative surveys. Data in Brief, 43. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6907175.
     
  • Huber, M. N.; Angst, M.; Fischer, M. (2022). Multi-level network dataset of ten Swiss wetlands governance cases based on qualitative interviews and quantitative surveys. Data in Brief, 43. DOI: 10.1016/j.dib.2022.108401.
     
  • Ingold, K.; Christopoulos, D.; Fischer, M. (2022). Resilience in political networks. In: Lazega, E.; Snijders, T. A.B.; Wittek R. P.M. (Eds.) A Research Agenda for Social Networks and Social Resilience (pp. 115-130). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. DOI: 10.4337/9781803925783.00014.
     
  • Ingold, K.; Cairney, P. (2022). The politics of public administration in policy-making. In: Ladner, A.; Fritz, S. (Eds.), Handbook on the Politics of Public Administration (pp. 211-220). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. DOI: 10.4337/9781839109447.00026.
     
  • Fesenfeld, L. P.; Schmid, N.; Finger, R.; Mathys, A.; Schmidt, T. S. (2022). The politics of enabling tipping points for sustainable development. One Earth, 5(10), 1100-1108. DOI: 10.1016/j.oneear.2022.09.004.
     
  • Fischer, M.; Ingold, K.; Duygan, M.; Manny, L.; Pakizer, K. (2022). Actor networks in urban water governance. In Bolognesi, T., Farrelly, M., Silva Pinto, F. Routledge Handbook on Urban Water Governance. London: Routledge. pp. 243-256. DOI: 10.4324/9781003057574-21.
     
  • Henry, A.D.; Ingold, K.; Nohrstedt, D.; Weible C.M. (2022). Advocacy Coalition Framework: Advice on Applications and Methods. In: C. M Weible & S. Workman (Eds.), Methods of the policy process (1st ed., pp. 105-136). DOI: 10.4324/9781003269083-5.
     
  • Pärli, R.; Fischer, M.; Lieberherr, M. (2022). What are the effects of transdisciplinary research projects in the global North and South? A comparative analysis. Current Research in Environmental Sustainability. (4) 100180. DOI: 10.1016/j.crsust.2022.100180.
     
  • Pakizer, K.; Fischer, M.; Lieberherr, E. (2022). Entrepreneurial strategies for transformative change: An application to grassroots movements for sustainable urban water systems. Journal of Cleaner Production. (375) 134003. DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2022.134003.
     
  • Manny, L.; Angst, M.; Rieckermann, J.; Fischer, M. (2022) Socio-technical networks of infrastructure management: Network concepts and motifs for studying digitalization, decentralization, and integrated management, Journal of Environmental Management, 318, 115596, DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.115596.
     
  • Lieberherr, E.; Ingold, K. (2022). Public, Private, or Inter-Municipal Organizations: Actors’ Preferences in the Swiss Water Sector. Sustainability, 14(13), 7560. DOI: 10.3390/su14137560.
     
  • Fischer, M.; Maag, S. (2022). Actors in forums: work input and different types of benefits. Journal of Public Policy, 42(3), 573-592. DOI: 10.1017/S0143814X22000022.
     
  • Osei-Kojo, A.; Ingold, K.; Weible, Ch. M. (2022). The Advocacy Coalition Framework: Lessons from Applications in African Countries. Politische Vierteljahresschrift 63, 181-201. DOI: 10.1007/s11615-022-00399-2.
     
  • Reber, U.; Fischer, M.; Ingold, K.; Kienast, F.; Hersperger, A. M.; Grütter, R.; Benz, R. (2022). Integrating Biodiversity: A Longitudinal and Cross-sectoral Analysis of Swiss Politics. Policy Sciences 55, 311-335. DOI: 10.1007/s11077-022-09456-4.
     
  • Jayasiri, M.; Yadav, S.; Dayawansa, N.; Ingold, K. (2022). Managing Agricultural Water Resources: Addressing the Complexity of Innovation, Social Perspectives, and Water Governance in Sri Lanka. Irrigation and Drainage, 71(S1), 71-85. DOI: 10.1002/ird.2693.
     
  • Fesenfeld, L.; Rudolph, L.; Bernauer, T. (2022). Policy Framing, Design and Feedback can Increase Public Support for Costly Food Waste Regulation. Nature Food, 3, 227–235. DOI: 10.1038/s43016-022-00460-8.
     
  • Duygan, M.; Kachi, A.; Oeri, F.; Oliveira, T. D.; Rinscheid, A. (2022). A Survey of Stakeholders’ Views and Practices: Energy Policy Making in Switzerland. In: P. Hettich & A. Kachi (Eds), Swiss Energy Governance: Political, Economic and Legal Challenges and Opportunities in the Energy Transition, 369-394. Springer International Publishing. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-80787-0_15.
     
  • Wiedemann, R. (2022). To Intervene or not to Intervene: Potential for Targeted Pesticide Policy in Uganda. Environmental Science & Policy, 129(2), 168-178. DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2022.01.003.
     
  • Duygan, M.; Fischer, M.; Pärli, R.; Ingold, K. (2022). Where Do Smart Cities Grow? The Spatial and Socio-Economic Configurations of Smart City Development. Sustainable Cities and Society, 77, 103578. DOI: 10.1016/j.scs.2021.103578.
     
  • Wiedemann, R.; Stamm, C.; Staudacher, P. (2022). Participatory Knowledge Integration to Promote Safe Pesticide Use in Uganda. Environmental Science and Policy, 128, 154-164. DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2021.11.012.
     
  • Duygan, M.; Kachi, A.; Oeri, F.; Oliveira, T. D.; Rinscheid, A. (2022). A Survey of Stakeholders’ Views and Practices: Energy Policymaking in Switzerland. In P. Hettich & A. Kachi (Eds.), Swiss Energy Governance: Political, Economic and Legal Challenges and Opportunities in the Energy Transition (pp. 369-394). Springer International Publishing. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-80787-0_15.

2021

  • Sciarini, P.; Fischer, M.; Gava, R.; Varone, F. (2021). The Influence of Co-sponsorship on MPs’ Agenda-Setting Success. West European Politics, 44(2), 327-353. DOI: 10.1080/01402382.2019.1697097.
     
  • Duygan, M.; Stauffacher, M.; Meylan, G. (2021). What Constitutes Agency? Determinants of Actors’ Influence on Formal Institutions in Swiss Waste Management. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 162, 120413. DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2020.120413.
     
  • Kammerer, M.; Ingold, K.; Dupuis, J. (2021). Switzerland: International Commitments and Domestic Drawbacks. In: R. Wurzel, M. Andersen and P. Tobin (Eds.), Climate Governance Across the Globe: Pioneers, Leaders, and Followers (pp. 235-256). London/New York: Routledge. DOI: 10.4324/9781003014249-16.
     
  • Manny, L.; Duygan, M.; Fischer, M.; Rieckermann, J. (2021) Barriers to the Digital Transformation of Infrastructure Sectors. Policy Sciences, 54, 943–983. DOI: 10.1007/s11077-021-09438-y.
     
  • Fesenfeld, L. P. (2021). Glimmers of Hope: A Global Green New Deal is Feasible. GAIA-Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society, 30(3), 150-155. DOI: 10.14512/gaia.30.3.4.
     
  • Lindberg, M. B.; Kammermann, L. (2021). Advocacy Coalitions in the Acceleration Phase of the European Energy Transition. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 40, 262-282. DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2021.07.006.
     
  • Stutzer, R.; Rinscheid, A.; Oliveira, T. D.; Loureiro, P. M.; Kachi, A.; Duygan, M (2021). Black Coal, Thin Ice: The Discursive Legitimisation of Australian Coal in the Age of Climate Change. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 8(1), 369-394. DOI: 10.1057/s41599-021-00827-5.
     
  • Kammerer, M; Ingold, K. (2021). Actors and Issues in Climate Change Policy: The Maturation of a Policy Discourse in the National and International Context. Social Networks. DOI: 10.1016/j.socnet.2021.08.005.
     
  • Glaus, A.; Wiedemann, R.; Brandenberger, L. (2021). Toward Sustainable Policy Instruments: Assessing Instrument Selection Among Policy Actors. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 65(9), 1708-1726. DOI: 10.1080/09640568.2021.1944847.
     
  • Herzog, L.; Ingold, K.; Schlager, E. (2021). Prescribed by Law and Therefore Realized? Analyzing Rules and Their Implied Actor Interactions as Networks. Policy Studies Journal, 50(2), 366-386. DOI: 10.1111/psj.12448.
     
  • Trencher, G.; Truong, N.; Temocin, P.; Duygan, M. (2021). Top-Down Sustainability Transitions in Action: How Do Incumbent Actors Drive Electric Mobility Diffusion in China, Japan, and California? Energy Research & Social Science, 79, 102184. DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2021.102184.
     
  • Hileman, J. D.; Angst, M.; Scott, T. A.; Sundström, E. (2021). Recycled Text and Risk Communication in Natural Gas Pipeline Environmental Impact Assessments. Energy Policy, 156, 112379. DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2021.112379.
     
  • Castro, P.; Kammerer, M. (2021). The Institutionalization of a Cleavage: How Differential Treatment Affects State Behavior in the Climate Negotiations. International Studies Quarterly, 65(3), 683-698. DOI: 10.1093/isq/sqab045.
     
  • Glaus, A. (2021). Politics of Flood Risk Management in Switzerland: Political Feasibility of Instrument Mixes. Environmental Policy and Governance, 31(5), 492-519. DOI: 10.1002/eet.1940.
     
  • Ingold, K.; Fischer, M.; Christopoulos, D. (2021). The Roles Actors Play in Policy Networks: Central Positions in Strongly Institutionalized Fields. Network Science, 9(2), 213-235. DOI: 10.1017/nws.2021.1.
     
  • Fesenfeld, L. P.; Sun, Y.; Wicki, M.; Bernauer, T. (2021). The Role and Limits of Strategic Framing for Promoting Sustainable Consumption and Policy. Global Environmental Change, 68, 102266. DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2021.102266.
     
  • Fesenfeld, L. P.; Rinscheid, A. (2021). Emphasizing Urgency of Climate Change Is Insufficient to Increase Policy Support. One Earth, 4(3), 411-424. DOI: 10.1016/j.oneear.2021.02.010.
     
  • Duygan, M.; Kachi, A.; Oliveira, T. D.; Rinscheid, A. (2021). Introducing the Endowment-Practice-Institutions (Epi) Framework for Studying Agency in the Institutional Contestation of Socio-Technical Regimes. Journal of Cleaner Production, 296, 126396. DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.126396.
     
  • Kammerer, M.; Wagner, P.; Gronow, A.; Ylä-Anttila, T.; Fisher, D. R.; Sun-Jin, Y. (2021). What Explains Collaboration in High and Low Conflict Contexts? Comparing Climate Change Policy Networks in Four Countries. Policy Studies Journal, 49(4), 1065-1086. DOI: 10.1111/psj.12422.
     
  • Kammermann, L.; Angst, M. (2021). The Effect of Beliefs on Policy Instrument Preferences: The Case of Swiss Renewable Energy Policy. Policy Studies Journal, 49(3), 757-784. DOI: 10.1111/psj.12393.

2020

  • Angst, M. (2020). Bottom‐up Identification of Subsystems in Complex Governance Systems. Policy Studies Journal, 48(3), 782-805. DOI: 10.1111/psj.12301.
     
  • Weible, C.; Ingold, K.; Nohrstedt, D.; Henry, A.; Jenkins-Smith, H. (2020). Sharpening Advocacy Coalitions. Policy Studies Journal, 48(4), 1054-1081. DOI: 10.1111/psj.12360.
     
  • Ingold, K.; Varone, F.; Kammerer, M.; Metz, F.; Kammermann, L.; Strotz, C. (2020). Are Responses to Official Consultations and Stakeholder Surveys Reliable Guides to Policy Actors’ Positions? Policy & Politics, 48(2), 193-222. DOI: 10.1332/030557319X15613699478503.
     
  • Glaus, A.; Mosimann, M.; Röthlisberger, V.; Ingold, K. (2020). How Flood Risks Shape Policies: Flood Exposure and Risk Perception in Swiss Municipalities. Regional Environmental Change, 20, 120. DOI: 10.1007/s10113-020-01705-7.
     
  • Trencher, G.; Rinscheid, A.; Duygan, M.; Truong, N.; Asuka, J. (2020). Revisiting Carbon Lock-in in Energy Systems: Explaining the Perpetuation of Coal Power in Japan. Energy Research and Social Science, 69, 101770. DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2020.101770.
     
  • Möhring, N.; Ingold, K.; Kudsk, P.; Martin-Laurent, F.; Niggli, U.; Siegrist, M.; Studer, B.; Walter, A.; Finger, R. (2020). Pathways for Advancing Pesticide Policies. Nature Food, 1, 535-540. DOI: 10.1038/s43016-020-00141-4.
     
  • Ingold, K. (2020). "Unbeantwortete Fragen im Advocacy Coalition Framework". In: M. Nagel, P. Kenis, P. Leifeld und H. Schmedes (Eds.), Politische Komplexität, Governance von Innovationen und Policy-Netzwerke: Festschrift für Volker Schneider (pp. 91-97). Wiesbaden: Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-658-30914-5_11.
     
  • Ingold, K.; Tosun, J. (2020). Special Issue “Public Policy Analysis of Integrated Water Resource Management”. Water, 12(9), 2321. DOI: 10.3390/w12092321.
     
  • Angst, M.; Fischer, M. (2020). Identifying Subsystems and Crucial Actors in Water Governance: Analysis of Bipartite Actor-Issue Networks. In: M. Fischer and K. Ingold (Eds.), Networks in Water Governance (pp. 115-144). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-46769-2_5.
     
  • Herzog, L; Ingold, K. (2020). Collaboration in Water Quality Management: Differences in Micro-Pollutant Management Along the River Rhine. In: M. Fischer and K. Ingold (Eds.), Networks in Water Governance (pp. 203-238). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-46769-2_8.
     
  • Fischer, M.; Ingold, K. (Eds.). (2020). Networks in Water Governance. Palgrave Studies in Water Governance: Policy and Practice. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-46769-2.
     
  • Brandenberger, L.; Ingold, K.; Fischer, M.; Schläpfer, I.; Leifeld, P. (2020). Boundary Spanning Through Engagement of Policy Actors in Multiple Issues. Policy Studies Journal, 50(1), 35-64. DOI: 10.1111/psj.12404.
     
  • Blake, K.; Nahrath, S.; Ingold, K. (2020). Combining the Institutional Resource Regime (IRR) Framework With the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) For a Better Understanding of Environmental Governance Processes: The Case of Swiss Wind Power Policy. Environmental Science and Policy, 112, 141-154. DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2020.06.010.
     
  • Berardo, R.; Fischer, M.; Hamilton, M. (2020). Collaborative Governance and the Challenges of Network-Based Research. The American Review of Public Administration, 50(8), 898-913. DOI: 10.1177/0275074020927792.
     
  • Pham-Truffert, M.; Metz, F.; Fischer, M.; Rueff, H.; Messerli, P. (2020). Interactions Among Sustainable Development Goals: Knowledge for Identifying Multipliers and Virtuous Cycles. Sustainable Development, 28(5), 1236-1250. DOI: 10.1002/sd.2073.
     
  • Nohrstedt, D.; Weible, Ch.; Ingold, K.; Henry, A. (2020). Comparing Policy Processes: Insights and Lessons from the Advocacy Coalition Framework Research Program. In: G. Peters and G. Fontaine (Eds.), Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Comparative Policy Analysis (pp. 67–89). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. DOI: 10.4337/9781788111195.00011.
     
  • Weible, C.M.; Nohrstedt, D.; Cairney, P.; Carter, P.D.; Crow, D.A.; Durnová, A.P.; Heikkila, T.; Ingold, K.; McConnell, A.; Stone, D. (2020). COVID 19 and the Policy Sciences: Initial Reactions and Perspectives. Policy Sciences, 53, 225-241. DOI: 10.1007/s11077-020-09381-4.
     
  • Kammerer, M.; Crameri, F.; Ingold, K. (2020). Das Klima UND Die EU: Eine Diskursperspektive Auf Die Deutsche UND Schweizerische Klimapolitik. In: R. Careja, P. Emmenegger and N. Giger (Eds.), The European Social Model under Pressure – Liber Amicorum in Honour of Klaus Armingeon (pp. 599-623). Wiesbaden: Springer VS. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-658-27043-8_34.
     
  • Fischer, M.; Jager, N. (2020). How Policy-Specific Factors Influence Horizontal Cooperation Among Subnational Governments: Evidence From the Swiss Water Sector. Publius – The Journal of Federalism, 50(4), 645-671. DOI: 10.1093/publius/pjaa002.
     
  • Pärli, R.; Fischer, M. (2020). Implementing the Agenda 2030 – What Is the Role of Forums? International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ecology, 27(5), 443-457. DOI: 10.1080/13504509.2020.1719546.
     
  • Metz, F.; Angst, M.; Fischer, M. (2020). Policy Integration: Do Laws or Actors Integrate Issues Relevant to Flood Risk Management in Switzerland? Global Environmental Change, 61, 101945. DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2019.101945.
     
  • Dermont, C.; Kammermann, L. (2020). Political Candidates and the Energy Issue: Nuclear Power Position and Electoral Success. Review of Policy Research, 37(3), 369-385. DOI: 10.1111/ropr.12374.
     
  • Pakizer, K.; Fischer, M.; Lieberherr, E. (2020). Policy Instrument Mixes for Operating Modular Technology Within Hybrid Water Systems. Environmental Science and Policy, 105, 120-133. DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2019.12.009.
     
  • Narayan, A. S.; Fischer, M.; Lüthi, C. (2020). Social Network Analysis for Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (Wash): Application in Governance of Decentralized Wastewater Treatment in India Using a Novel Validation Methodology. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 7(198). DOI: 10.3389/fenvs.2019.00198.

2019

  • Fischer, M.; Angst, M.; Maag, S. (2019). Co-participation in the Swiss Water Forum Network. International Journal of Water Resources Development, 35(3), 446-464. DOI: 10.1080/07900627.2017.1374929.
     
  • Malang, T.; Brandenberger, L.; Leifeld, P. (2019). Networks and Social Influence in European Legislative Politics. British Journal of Political Science, 49(4), 1475-1498. DOI: 10.1017/S0007123417000217.
     
  • Metz, F.; Leifeld, P.; Ingold, K. (2019). Interdependent Policy Instrument Preferences: A Two-Mode Network Approach. Journal of Public Policy, 39(4), 609-636. DOI: 10.1017/S0143814X18000181.
     
  • Ingold, K.; Stadelmann-Steffen, I.; Kammermann, L. (2019). The Acceptance of Instruments in Instrument Mix Situations: Citizens’ Perspective on Swiss Energy Transition. Research Policy, 77, 148-160. DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2018.10.018.
     
  • Ingold, K.; Stadelmann-Steffen, I.; Kammermann, L. (2019). The Acceptance of Instruments in Instrument Mix Situations: Citizens’ Perspective on Swiss Energy Transition. Research Policy, 48(10), 103694. DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2018.10.018.
     
  • Kammermann, L.; Ingold, K. (2019). Going Beyond Technocratic and Democratic Principles: Stakeholder Acceptance of Instruments in Swiss Energy Policy. Policy Sciences, 52, 43-65. DOI: 10.1007/s11077-018-9341-5.
     
  • Ingold, K.; Driessen, P.P.J.; Runhaar, H.A.C.; Widmer, A. (2019). On the Necessity of Connectivity: Linking Key Characteristics of Environmental Problems With Governance Modes. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 62(11), 1821-1844. DOI: 10.1080/09640568.2018.1486700.
     
  • Ingold, K.; Gavilano, A. (2019). Under What Conditions Does an Extreme Event Deploy Its Focal Power: Towards Collaborative Management in Swiss Flood Risk Management. In: F. Byander and D. Nohrstedt (Eds.), Collaborative Crisis Management – Inter-Organizational Approaches to Extreme Events (pp. 132-147). New York/London: Routledge. DOI: 10.4324/9780429244308-11.
     
  • Widmer, A.; Herzog, L.; Moser, A.; Ingold, K. (2019). Multilevel Water Quality Management in the International Rhine Catchment Area: How to Establish Social-Ecological Fit Through Collaborative Governance. Ecology and Society, 24(3), 27. DOI: 10.5751/ES-11087-240327.
     
  • Kammermann, L.; Freiburghaus, R. (2019). Konsensdemokratie und die Transformation der schweizerischen Energiepolitik. dms – der moderne staat – Zeitschrift für Public Policy, Recht und Management, 12(2), 329-346.
     
  • Fischer, M.; Nguyen, M.; Strande, L. (2019). Context Matters: Horizontal and Hierarchical Network Governance Structures in Vietnam’s Sanitation Sector. Ecology & Society, 24(3), 17. DOI: 10.5751/ES-11036-240317.
     
  • Mewhirter, J.; McLaughlin, D. M.; Fischer, M. (2019). The Role of Forum Membership Diversity on Institutional Externalities in Resource Governance Systems. Society & Natural Resources, 32(11), 1239-1257. DOI: 10.1080/08941920.2019.1646366.
     
  • Sayles, J. S.; Mancilla Garcia, M.; Hamilton, M.; Alexander, S. M.; Baggio, J. A.; Fischer, A. P.; Ingold, K.; Meredith, G. R.; Pittman, J. (2019). Social-Ecological Network Analysis for Sustainability Sciences: A Systematic Review and Innovative Research Agenda for the Future. Environmental Research Letters, 14(9). DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ab2619.
     
  • Bodin, Ö.; Alexander, S. M.; Baggio, J.; Barnes, M. L.; Berardo, R.; Cumming, G. S.; Dee, L. E.; Fischer, A. P.; Fischer, M.; Mancilla Garcia, M.; Guerrero, A. M.; Hileman, J.; Ingold, K.; Matous, P.; Morrison, T. H.; Nohrstedt, D.; Pittman, J.; Robins, G.; Sayles, J. S. (2019). Improving Network Approaches to the Study of Complex Social–Ecological Interdependencies. Nature Sustainability, 2, 551-559. DOI: 10.1038/s41893-019-0308-0.
     
  • Metz, F.; Glaus, A. (2019). Integrated Water Resources Management and Policy Integration: Lessons From 169 Years of Flood Policies in Switzerland. Water, 11(6), 1173. DOI: 10.3390/w11061173.
     
  • Lieberherr, E.; Fischer, M.; Tschannen, A. (2019). Taking Stock of Institutional Resource Regime Research: A Meta-Analysis. Environmental Science and Policy, 97, 81-89. DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2019.04.003.
     
  • Lieberherr, E.; Ingold, K. (2019). Actors in Water Governance: Barriers and Bridges for Coordination. Water, 11(2), 326. DOI: 10.3390/w11020326 / DOI in book publication: DOI: 10.3390/books978-3-03921-151-7.
     
  • Andriamihaja, O. R.; Metz, F.; Zaehringer, J. G.; Fischer, M.; Messerli, P. (2019). Land Competition Under Telecoupling: Distant Actors’ Environmental Versus Economic Claims on Land in North-Eastern Madagascar. Sustainability, 11(3), p. 851. DOI: 10.3390/su11030851.
     
  • Herzog, L. M.; Ingold, K. (2019). Threat to Common-Pool Resources and the Importance of Forums: On the Emergence of Cooperation in CPR Problem Settings. Policy Studies Journal, 47(1), 77-113. DOI: 10.1111/psj.12308.
     
  • Fischer, M.; Maag, S. (2019). Why Are Cross-Sectoral Forums Important to Actors? Forum Contributions to Cooperation, Learning, and Resource Distribution. Policy Studies Journal, 47(1), 114-137. DOI: 10.1111/psj.12310.
     
  • Angst, M. (2019). Networks of Swiss Water Governance Issues. Studying Fit Between Media Attention and Organizational Activity. Society & Natural Resources, 32(12), 1416-1432. DOI: 10.1080/08941920.2018.1535102.
     
  • Fischer, M.; Varone, F.; Gava, R.; Sciarini, P. (2019). How MPs Ties to Interest Groups Matter for Legislative Co-sponsorship. Social Networks, 57, p. 34-42. DOI: 10.1016/j.socnet.2018.12.001.

2018

  • Jiang, D.; Fischer, M.; Huang, Z.; Kunz, N. (2018). Identifying Drivers of China’s Provincial Wastewater Reuse Outcomes Using Qualitative Comparative Analysis. Journal of Industrial Ecology, 22(2), 369-376. DOI: 10.1111/jiec.12584.
     
  • Kammermann, L. (2018). Factors Driving the Promotion of Hydroelectricity: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis. Review of Policy Research, 35(2), 213-237. DOI: 10.1111/ropr.12274.
     
  • Jenkins-Smith, H. C.; Nohrstedt, D.; Weible, C. M.; Ingold, K. (2018). The Advocacy Coalition Framework: An Overview of the Research Program. In: C. M. Weible and P. A. Sabatier (Eds.), Theories of the Policy Process, (4th ed., pp. 135-171). New York / Oxon: Westview Press. DOI: 10.4324/9780429494284-5.
     
  • Rapp, C.; Ingold, K.; Freitag, M. (2018). Personalized Networks? How the Big Five Personality Traits Influence the Structure of Egocentric Networks. Social Science Research, online. DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2018.09.001.
     
  • Kammerer, M.; Namhata, C. (2018). What Drives the Adoption of Climate Change Mitigation Policy? A Dynamic Network Approach to Policy Diffusion. Policy Sciences, 51, 477-513. DOI: 10.1007/s11077-018-9332-6.
     
  • Maag, S.; Fischer, M. (2018). Why Government, Interest Groups, and Research Coordinate: The Different Purposes of Forums. Society & Natural Resources, 31(11), 1248-1265. DOI: 10.1080/08941920.2018.1484973.
     
  • Kammermann, L.; Dermont, C. (2018). How Beliefs of the Political Elite and Citizens on Climate Change Influence Support for Swiss Energy Transition Policy. Energy Research & Social Science, 43, 48-60. DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2018.05.010.
     
  • Weible, C.; Ingold, K. (2018). Why Advocacy Coalitions Matter and Practical Insights About Them. Policy & Politics, 46(2), 325-343. DOI: 10.1332/030557318X15230061739399.
     
  • Angst, M.; Widmer, A.; Fischer, M.; Ingold, K. (2018). Connectors and Coordinators in Natural Resource Governance: Insights From Swiss Water Supply. Ecology and Society, 23(2), 1. DOI: 10.5751/ES-10030-230201.
     
  • Brandenberger, L. (2018). Trading favors – Examining the temporal dynamics of reciprocity in congressional collaborations using relational event models. Social Networks, 54, 238-253. DOI: 10.1016/j.socnet.2018.02.001.
     
  • Cairney, P.; Ingold, K.; Fischer, M. (2018). Fracking in the UK and Switzerland: Why Differences in Policymaking Systems Don’t Always Produce Different Outputs and Outcomes. Policy & Politics, 46(1), 125-147. DOI: 10.1332/030557316X14793989976783.
     
  • Widmer, A. (2018). Mainstreaming Climate Adaptation in Switzerland: How the National Adaptation Strategy Is Implemented Differently Across Sectors. Environmental Science & Policy, 82, 71–78. DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2018.01.007.
     
  • Ingold, K.; Moser, A.; Metz, F.; Herzog, L.; Bader, H.P.; Scheidegger, R.; Stamm, Ch. (2018). Misfit Between Physical Affectedness and Regulatory Embeddedness: The Case of Drinking Water Supply Along the Rhine River. Global Environmental Change, 48, 136-150. DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2017.11.006.

2017

  • Fischer, M.; Maggetti, M. (2017). Qualitative Comparative Analysis and the Study of Policy Processes. Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice, 19(4), 345-361. DOI: 10.1080/13876988.2016.1149281.
     
  • Cranmer, S. J.; Leifeld, P.; McClurg, S. D.; Rolfe, M. (2017). Navigating the Range of Statistical Tools for Inferential Network Analysis. American Journal of Political Science 61(1), 237-251. DOI: 10.1111/ajps.12263.
     
  • Ingold, K.; Fischer, M.; Cairney, P. (2017). Drivers for Policy Agreement in Nascent Subsystems: An Application of the Advocacy Coalition Framework to Fracking Policy in Switzerland and the UK. Policy Studies Journal, 45(3), 442–463. DOI: 10.1111/psj.12173.
     
  • Metz, F.; Leifeld, P. (2017). Governing Water with Market-Based Instruments: Preferences and Skepticism in Switzerland. In: C. Bréthaut and R. Schweizer (Eds.), A Critical Approach to International Water Management Trends. Policy and Practice. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 147-176. DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-60086-8_7.
     
  • Metz, F.; Ingold, K. (2017). Politics of the Precautionary Principle: Assessing Actors’ Preferences in Water Protection Policy. Policy Sciences, 50, 721-743. DOI: 10.1007/s11077-017-9295-z.
     
  • Fischer, M.; Ingold, K.; Ivanova, S. (2017). Information Exchange Under Uncertainty: The Case of Unconventional Gas Development in the United Kingdom. Land Use Policy, 67, 200-211. DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2017.05.003.
     
  • Metz, F. (2017). From Network Structure to Policy Design in Water Protection: A Comparative Perspective on Micropollutants in the Rhine River Riparian Countries. Cham: Springer International Publishing. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-55693-2.
     
  • Dermont, C.; Ingold, K.; Kammermann, L.; Stadelmann-Steffen, I. (2017). Bringing the Policy Making Perspective In: A Political Science Approach to Social Acceptance. Energy Policy, 108, 359–368. DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2017.05.062.
     
  • Angst, M.; Hirschi, C. (2017). Network Dynamics in Natural Resource Governance: A Case Study of Swiss Landscape Management. Policy Studies Journal, 45(2), 315-336. DOI: 10.1111/psj.12145.
     
  • Leifeld, P.; Wankmüller, S.; Berger, V.; Ingold, K.; Steiner, C. (2017). Collaboration Patterns in the German Political Science Co-authorship Network. Plos One, 12(4), e0174671. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0174671.
     
  • Sager, F.; Ingold, K.; Balthasar, A. (2017). Policy-Analyse in der Schweiz. Besonderheiten, Theorien, Beispiele. Zürich: NZZ Verlag.
     
  • Fischer, M.; Schläpfer, I. (2017). Metagovernance and Policy Forum Outputs in Swiss Environmental Policy. Environmental Politics, 26(5), 870-892. DOI: 10.1080/09644016.2017.1284981.
     
  • Varone, F.; Ingold, K.; Jourdain, Ch. (2017). Defending the Status Quo Across Venues and Coalitions: Evidence From California Interest Groups. Journal of Public Policy, 37(1), 1-26. DOI: 10.1017/S0143814X16000179.
     
  • Ingold, K. (2017). How to Create and Preserve Social Capital in Climate Adaptation Policies: A Network Approach. Ecological Economics, 131 (January 2017), 414-424. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2016.08.033.

2016

  • Weible, C.M.; Heikkila, T.; Ingold, K.; Fischer, M. (2016). Policy Debates on Hydraulic Fracturing. Comparing Coalition Politics in North America and Europe. Palgrave Macmillan. DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-59574-4.
     
  • Weible, C.M.; Heikkila, T.; Ingold, K.; Fischer, M. (2016). Introduction. In: C.M. Wible, T. Heikkila, K. Ingold and M. Fischer (Eds.), Policy Debates on Hydraulic Fracturing. Palgrave Macmillan, 1-27. DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-59574-4_1.
     
  • Cairney, P.; Fischer, M.; Ingold, K. (2016). Hydraulic Fracturing Policy in the United Kingdom: Coalition, Cooperation, and Opposition in the Face of Uncertainty. In: C.M. Weible, T. Heikkila, K. Ingold and M. Fischer (Eds.), Policy Debates on Hydraulic Fracturing. Palgrave Macmillan, 81-113. DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-59574-4_4.
     
  • Ingold, K.; Fischer, M. (2016). Belief Conflicts and Coalition Structures Driving Subnational Policy Responses: The Case of Swiss Regulation of Unconventional Gas Development. In: C.M. Weible, T. Heikkila, K. Ingold and M. Fischer (Eds.), Policy Debates on Hydraulic Fracturing. Palgrave Macmillan, 201-237. DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-59574-4_8.
     
  • Ingold, K.; Fischer, M.; Heikkila, T.; Weible, C.M. (2016). Assessments and Aspirations. In: C.M. Weible, T. Heikkila, K. Ingold and M. Fischer (Eds.), Policy Debates on Hydraulic Fracturing. Palgrave Macmillan, 239-264. DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-59574-4_9.
     
  • Ingold, K.; Lieberherr, E.; Schläpfer, I.; Steinmann, K.; Zimmermann, W. (2016). Umweltpolitik der Schweiz – ein Lehrbuch. 337 Seiten. Zürich/St. Gallen: Dike Verlag. Webanhang (PDF, 790KB)
     
  • Fischer, M. (2016). Institutions and Policy Networks in Europe. In: J. N. Victor, M. Lubell and A. Montgomery (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Political Networks (pp. 833-854). Oxford: Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190228217.013.36.
     
  • Ingold, K.; Fischer, M., de Boer, C., Mollinga, P. (2016). Water Management Across Borders, Scales and Sectors: Recent Developments and Future Challenges in Water Policy Analysis. Environmental Policy and Governance, 26(4), 223-228. DOI: 10.1002/eet.1713.
     
  • Balsiger, J.; Ingold, K. (2016). In the Eye of the Beholder: Network Location and Sustainability Perception in Flood Prevention. Environmental Policy and Governance, 26(4), 242-256. DOI: 10.1002/eet.1715.
     
  • Metz, F.; Fischer, M. (2016). Policy Diffusion in the Context of International River Basin Management. Environmental Policy and Governance, 26(4), 257-277. DOI: 10.1002/eet.1716.
     
  • Ingold, K.; Pflieger, G. (2016). Two Levels, Two Strategies: Explaining the Gap Between Swiss National and International Responses Toward Climate Change. European Policy Analysis, 2(1), 20-38. DOI: 10.18278/epa.2.1.4.
     
  • Leifeld, P.; Ingold, K. (2016). Co-authorship Networks in Swiss Political Research. Swiss Political Science Review, 22(2), 264-287. DOI: 10.1111/spsr.12193.
     
  • Varone, F.; Ingold, K.; Jourdain, C. (2016). Studying Policy Advocacy Through Social Network Analysis. European Political Science. Advance online publication, 27 May 2016. DOI: 10.1057/eps.2016.16.
     
  • Towfigh, E.V.; Goerg, S.J.; Glöckner, A.; Leifeld, P.; Kurschilgen, C.; Llorente-Saguer, A.; Bade, S. (2016). Do Direct-Democratic Procedures Lead To Higher Acceptance Than Political Representation? Experimental Survey Evidence From Germany. Public Choice 167(1): 47-65. DOI: 10.1007/s11127-016-0330-y.
     
  • Fischer, M.; Ingold, K.; Sciarini, P.; Varone, F. (2016). Dealing With Bad Guys: Actor- And Process-Level Determinants of the “Devil Shift” in Policy Making. Journal of Public Policy, 36(2), 309-334. DOI: 10.1017/S0143814X15000021.
     
  • Varone, F.; Ingold, K.; Fischer, M. (2016). Administration et réseaux d'action publique. In: Giauque, D.; Emery, Y. L'acteur et la bureaucratie au 21e siècle. Québec: Presses de l'Université de Laval, 115-140.
     
  • Thomann, E.; Lieberherr, E.; Ingold, K. (2016). Torn Between State and Market: Private Policy Implementation and Conflicting Institutional Logics. Policy and Society, 35(1), 57-69. DOI: 10.1016/j.polsoc.2015.12.001.
     
  • Fischer, M.; Sciarini, P. (2016). Drivers of Collaboration in Political Decision Making: A Cross-Sector Perspective. The Journal of Politics, 78(1), 63-74. DOI: 10.1086/683061.
     
  • Kunz, N. C.; Fischer, M.; Ingold, K.; Hering, J. G. (2016). Drivers for and Against Municipal Wastewater Recycling: A Review. Water Science and Technology, 73(2), 251-259. DOI: 10.2166/wst.2015.496.
     
  • Markard, J.; Suter, M.; Ingold, K. (2016). Socio-Technical Transitions and Policy Change – Advocacy Coalitions in Swiss Energy Policy. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 18, 215-237. DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2015.05.003.
     
  • Ingold, K.; Leifeld, P. (2016). Structural and Institutional Determinants of Influence Reputation: A Comparison of Collaborative and Adversarial Policy Networks in Decision Making and Implementation. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 26(1), 1-18. DOI: 10.1093/jopart/muu043.
     
  • Leifeld, P. (2016). Policy Debates as Dynamic Networks. German Pension Politics and Privatization Discourse. Frankfurt am Main: Campus Verlag.

2015

  • Ingold, K.; Balsiger, J. (2015). Sustainability Principles Put Into Practice: Case Studies of Network Analysis in Swiss Climate Change Adaptation. Regional Environmental Change, 15, 529-598. DOI: 10.1007/s10113-013-0575-7.
     
  • Stadelmann-Steffen, I.; Ingold, K. (2015). Ist der Name schon Programm? Die GLP-Wählerschaft und ihre grünen und freisinnigen Wurzeln. In: Freitag; M.; Vatter, A.: Wahlen und Wählerschaft in der Schweiz. NZZ Libro Verlag, 217-244.
     
  • Fischer, M. (2015). Institutions and Coalitions in Policy Processes: A Cross-Sectoral Comparison. Journal of Public Policy, 35(2), 245-268. DOI: 10.1017/S0143814X14000166.
     
  • Fischer, M. (2015). Collaboration Patterns, External Shocks and Uncertainty: Swiss Nuclear Energy Politics Before and After Fukushima. Energy Policy, 86, 520-528. DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2015.08.007.
     
  • Kunz, N. C.; Fischer, M.; Ingold, K.; Hering, J. G. (2015). Why Do Some Water Utilities Recycle More Than Others? A Qualitative Comparative Analysis in New South Wales, Australia. Environmental Science and Technology, 49(14), 8287-8296. DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b01827.
     
  • Fischer, M.; Leifeld, P. (2015). Policy Forums: Why Do They Exist and What Are They Used For? Policy Sciences, 48(3), 363-382. DOI: 10.1007/s11077-015-9224-y.
     
  • Sciarini, P.; Fischer, M.; Traber, D. (2015). Political Decision-Making in Switzerland. The Consensus Model under Pressure. DOI: 10.1057/9781137508607.
     
  • Ingold, K. (2015). Identifizierung von Koalitionen in Politikprozessen illustriert anhand der Schweizer Klimapolitik. Zwei strukturelle Ansätze. In: M. Gamper; L. Reschke.; M. Düring: Knoten und Kanten III – Soziale Netzwerkanalyse in Geschichts- und Politikforschung (pp. 373-398). Transkript Verlag, Bielefeld. DOI: 10.14361/9783839427422-012.
     
  • Ingold, K.; Varone, F. (2015). Is the Swiss Constitution Really Constitutional? Testing the “Veil of Ignorance” Hypothesis Over Time. In: L. Imbeau; S. Jacob (Eds.), Behind a Veil of Ignorance? Power and Uncertainty in Constitutional Design (pp. 187-202). Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-14953-0_11.
     
  • Fischer, M.; Sciarini, P. (2015). Unpacking Reputational Power: Intended and Unintended Determinants of the Assessment of Actors’ Power. Social Networks, (42), 60-71. DOI: 10.1016/j.socnet.2015.02.008.
     
  • Ingold, K.; Christopoulos, D. (2015). The Networks of Political Entrepreneurs: A Case Study of Swiss Climate Policy. In: I. Narbutaité Aflaki; E. Petridou; L. Miles (Eds.), Entrepreneurship in the Polis - Understanding Political Entrepreneurship (pp. 17-30). Burlington: Ashgate, 17-30.
     
  • Tresch, A.; Fischer, M. (2015). In Search of Political Influence: Outside Lobbying Behaviour and Media Coverage of Social Movements, Interest Groups and Political Parties in Six Western European Countries. International Political Science Review, 36(4), 355-372. DOI: 10.1177/0192512113505627.
     
  • Christopoulos, D.; Ingold, K. (2015). Exceptional or Just Well Connected? Political Entrepreneurs and Brokers in Policy Making. European Political Science Review, 7(3), 475-498. DOI: 10.1017/S1755773914000277.

2014

  • Sciarini, P.; Tresch, A.; Fischer, M. (2014). Europeanization in Parliament and in the Press. Swiss Political Science Review, 20(2), 232-238. DOI: 10.1111/spsr.12101.
     
  • Fischer, M.; Sciarini, P. (2014). The Europeanization of Swiss Decision-Making Processes. Swiss Political Science Review, 20(2), 239-245. DOI: 10.1111/spsr.12102.
     
  • Brönnimann, S.; Appenzeller, C.; Croci‐Maspoli, M.; Fuhrer, J.; Grosjean, M.; Hohmann, R.; Ingold, K.; Knutti, R.; Liniger, M. A.; Raible, C. C.; Röthlisberger, R.; Schär, C.; Scherrer, S. C.; Strassmann, K.; Thalmann, P. (2014). Climate Change in Switzerland: A Review of Physical, Institutional, and Political Aspects. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews - Climate Change, 5(4), 461-481. DOI: 10.1002/wcc.280.
     
  • Ingold, K.; Gschwend. M. (2014). Science in Policy-Making: Neutral Experts or Strategic Policy-Makers? West European Politics, 37(5), 993-1018. DOI: 10.1080/01402382.2014.920983.
     
  • Henry, A. D.; Ingold, K.; Nohrstedt, D.; Weible, C. M. (2014). Policy Change in Comparative Contexts. Applying the Advocacy Coalition Framework Outside of Western Europe and North America. Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice, 16(4, SI), 299-312. DOI: 10.1080/13876988.2014.941200.
     
  • Ingold, K., Fischer, M. (2014). Drivers of Collaboration to Mitigate Climate Change: An Illustration of Swiss Climate Policy Over 15 Years. Global Environmental Change, 24(1), 88-98. DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2013.11.021.
     
  • Metz, F.; Ingold, K. (2014). Sustainable Wastewater Management: Is It Possible to Regulate Micropollution in the Future by Learning From the Past? A Policy Analysis. Sustainability, 6(4), 1992-2012. DOI: 10.3390/su6041992.
     
  • Ingold, K. (2014). How Involved Are They Really? A Comparative Network Analysis of the Institutional Drivers of Local Actor Inclusion. Land Use Policy, 39, 376-387. DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2014.01.013.
     
  • Fischer, M. (2014). Coalition Structures and Policy Change in a Consensus Democracy. Policy Studies Journal, 42(3), 344-366. DOI: 10.1111/psj.12064.
     
  • Cappelletti, F.; Fischer, M.; Sciarini, P. (2014). ‘Let’s Talk Cash’: Cantons’ Interests and the Reform of Swiss Federalism. Regional & Federal Studies, 24(1), 1-20. DOI: 10.1080/13597566.2013.808627.

2013

  • Fischer, M.; Sciarini, P. (2013). Europeanization and the Inclusive Strategies of Executive Actors. Journal of European Public Policy, 20(10), 1482-1498. DOI: 10.1080/13501763.2013.781800.
     
  • Fisher, D. R.; Waggle, J.; Leifeld, P. (2013). Where Does Political Polarization Come From? Locating Polarization Within the U.S. Climate Change Debate. American Behavioral Scientist, 57(1), 70-92. DOI: 10.1177/0002764212463360.
     
  • Fisher, D. R.; Leifeld, P.; Iwaki, Y. (2013). Mapping the Ideological Networks of American Climate Politics. Climatic Change, 116(3-4), 523-545. DOI: 10.1007/s10584-012-0512-7.
     
  • Ingold, K.; Varone, F.; Stokman, F. (2013). A Social Network-Based Approach to Assess de Facto Independence of Regulatory Agencies. Journal of European Public Policy, 20(10), 1464-1481. DOI: 10.1080/13501763.2013.804280.
     
  • Leifeld, P. (2013). Reconceptualizing Major Policy Change in the Advocacy Coalition Framework: A Discourse Network Analysis of German Pension Politics. Policy Studies Journal, 41(1), 169-198. DOI: 10.1111/psj.12007.
     
  • Leifeld,P. (2013). Texreg: Conversion of Statistical Model Output in R to Latex and HTML Tables. Journal of Statistical Software, 55(8), 1-24. DOI:10.18637/jss.v055.i08.
     
  • Lienert, J.; Schnetzer, F.; Ingold, K. (2013). Stakeholder Analysis Combined With Social Network Analysis Provides Fine-Grained Insights Into Water Infrastructure Planning Processes. Journal of Environmental Management, 125, 134-148. DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2013.03.052.
     
  • Maggetti, M.; Ingold, K.; Varone, F. (2013). Having Your Cake and Eating It, Too: Can Regulatory Agencies Be Both Independent and Accountable? Swiss Political Science Review, 19(1), 1-25. DOI: 10.1111/spsr.12015.
     
  • Metz, F. (2013). Addressing Micropollution by Linking Problem Characteristics to Policy Instruments. Working Papers in Environmental Social Sciences 2013/04, Abteilung Umweltsozialwissenschaften, Eawag.
     
  • Schneider, V.; Leifeld, P.; Malang, T. (2013). Coping With Creeping Catastrophes: National Political Systems and the Challenge of Slow-Moving Policy Problems. In: B. Siebenhüner; M. Arnold; K. Eisenack; K. Jacob: Long-Term Governance of Social-Ecological Change. Abingdon: Routledge, 221-238.
     
  • Towfigh, E. V.; Glöckner, A.; Goerg, S. J.; Leifeld, P.; Kurschilgen, C.; Llorente-Saguer, A.; Bade, S. (2013). Does Political Representation Through Parties Decrease Voters’ Acceptance of Decisions? Preprints of the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods 2013/10. DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2273600.

2012

  • Fischer, M. (2012). Entscheidungsstrukturen in der Schweizer Politik zu Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Geneva, Geneva.
     
  • Fischer, M. (2012). Dominance or Challenge? An Explanation of the Power Distribution Among Coalitions in Swiss Decision-Making Processes. COMPASSS Working Paper 69.
     
  • Hering, J. G.; Ingold, K. M. (2012). Water Resources Management: What Should Be Integrated? Science, 336(6086), 1234-1235. DOI: 10.1126/science.1218230.
     
  • Ingold, K.; Varone, F. (2012). Treating Policy Brokers Seriously: Evidence From the Climate Policy. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 22(2), 319-346. DOI: 10.1093/jopart/mur035.
     
  • Leifeld, P.; Schneider, V. (2012). Information Exchange in Policy Networks. American Journal of Political Science, 56(3), 731-744. DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5907.2011.00580.x.
     
  • Leifeld, P.; Haunss, S. (2012). Political Discourse Networks and the Conflict Over Software Patents in Europe. European Journal of Political Research, 51(3), 382-409. DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-6765.2011.02003.x.
     
  • Lieberherr, E.; Klinke, A.; Finger, M. (2012). Towards Legitimate Water Governance? The Partially Privatized Berlin Waterworks. Public Management Review, 14(7), 923-946. DOI: 10.1080/14719037.2011.650056.
     
  • Fischer, M.; Ingold, K.; Sciarini, P.; Varone, F. (2012). Impacts of Market Liberalization on Regulatory Network: A Longitudinal Analysis of the Swiss Telecommunications Sector. Policy Studies Journal, 40(3), 435-457. DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0072.2012.00460.x.

News

2024

2023

  • Lukas Fesenfeld, Karin Ingold and Sol Kisling, together with other experts, published a report outlining "Pathways to Switzerland's Food Future".
  • Karin Ingold has published a chapter on "Democracy and Sustainability" in the current Communication by the “Naturforschende Gesellschaft Bern”, volume 80/2023.
  • Karin Ingold speaks about climate change and climate adaptation in the city of Bern: “People need to find the solutions cool” (newspaper “Hauptstadt”).
  • Simon Montfort is completing a six-month research stay at the Mercator Institute of Global Commons and Climate Change, Berlin. He is working in the group of Jan Minx on computer-based systematic evidence synthesis.
  • Jeanine Janz, Christian Binz, Manuel Fischer and Aline Hänggli published an outreach article in Aqua & Gas on paradigm change in water protection. Using exemplary cases, the authors describe the evolution from flood control and water use to technology-centred water protection in the 1990s. Today, water management follows integrated, more ecological and system-encompassing principles.

2022

  • Manuel Fischer and Ueli Reber wrote a brief summary (in German) of what they found out in their project on biodiversity integration in Switzerland. 
  • Karin Ingold published an article in LeGes 33(1) on the classification of policy-Instruments.
  •  In a joint interview with the IzR editorial team, Karin Ingold and Heike Brugger provided information on the extent to which like-minded coalitions are driving the energy transition. The interview was published in the journal Informationen Zur Raumentwicklung.

2021

  • In an interview with SRF Echo der Zeit, Karin Ingold explains why environmental issues in Switzerland have difficulties to be accepted at the ballot box and whether Corona has affected the “green wave” in Switzerland.

2020

  • Karin Ingold published an outreach article with the title "Demokratie in Zeiten der Krise" [Democracy in times of crisis] in SAGW Bulletin No. 03/2020.
  • Manuel Fischer, Karin Ingold and Mert Duygan have published an outreach article in Aqua & Gas on "PlaNet", their innovative online planning tool for municipalities.
  • Karin Ingold and Jale Tosun published an open access special issue in the journal Water named "Public Policy Analysis of Integrated Water Resource Management". They wrote an editorial where they outline how principles of policy studies can be brought together with dimensions from integrated water resources management (IWRM).
  • With colleagues around the world, Manuel Fischer and Karin Ingold have published a new book on complex issues of global water governance at Palgrave Macmillan. In the 9 thematic chapters different case studies are presented, all of them using analytical network methods. The topics range from water management in Brazil, to conflicts in Swiss water policy, to water quality problems in Iranian rivers. Network analysis is applied descriptively, analytically or as modeling. The introduction and the conclusion show how network analysis can provide an appropriate specific perspective on complex environmental problems, but also how different challenges are involved in the analysis of water problems around the world.
  • Karin Ingold and nine other international policy scholars analyzed the COVID19 and lock down situation from a policy perspective (see Policy Sciences article). In co-authorship with Manuel Fischer, Karin Ingold translated this analysis to the Swiss situation (see DeFacto article).

2017

2016

  • “Struktur Wasserversorgung” is the fifth subproject of the interdisciplinary research project “BL21 – Regionale Wasserversorgung Basel-Landschaft 21”, which was led by Karin Ingold, Eva Lieberherr, and Alexander Widmer, with the aim of providing information about potentially promising future water supply structures in different regions of the Canton Basel-Landschaft.

2015

  • In Veolia's industry magazine nahdran, Karin Ingold, Firk Wolfgang and Stefan Langer gave an interview titled “Schnell umsetzbar = nachhaltig wirksam?” about a possible expansion of the wastewater system in Germany compared to the expansion in Switzerland.

2014

2009

2008

  • Karin Ingold and Willi Zimmermann published the article “Suisse: L'adaptation des entreprises forestières” in the journal Courrier de la Planète.

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Professorship

Welcome to the chair of Policy Analysis and Environmental Governance (PEGO)

In August 2011, the Institute of Political Science (IPW) at the University of Bern installed the Professorship of Policy Analysis and Environmental Governance (PEGO). This Chair was founded as a result of a fruitful collaboration between the IPW and the EAWAG (the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology). Since the beginning, Karin Ingold took the lead in this new research group. She is a political scientist and focuses her research and lectures on the analysis of policy processes, and instrument design. Karin Ingold has a particular interest in issues relating to natural resource management, water, energy and climate policy. PEGO is also affiliated to the Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research (OCCR) research.

 

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Secretariat

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PostDocs

PhD Candidates

Student Assistants

Teaching

Spring semester 2019

Students of the Master Seminar "Climate and Energy Policy" re-invented the term paper: they compiled an innovative podcast dedicated to energy efficiency and climate change in the era of electricity liberalization. More here (Podcast). Authors: Klopfstein, Zemp, Naço, Ota.

Open Topics for BA- and MA-Thesis:

  • The renaturation of rivers is an important measure to promote biodiversity. According to recent studies, the Swiss population is largely in favor of such measures. Nevertheless, specific projects often meet with resistance when they are implemented. There are indications that this resistance is mainly due to a lack of understanding of the importance of natural watercourses for the promotion of local biodiversity. In this context, it is important to know what the characteristics of a near-natural watercourse are from the population's point of view.  As part of a citizen science project, we collected information on which watercourse situations participants classify as ecologically valuable or problematic. In this Bachelor's thesis, you will analyze existing data and prepare the findings in a suitable form.
     
  • Today, reuse of treated wastewater in Switzerland is not compatible with legislation or not even regulated by law. However, there are reasons to think about the opportunities and risks of reuse also in Switzerland, as the availability of water resources and demand for irrigation will change in the next decades due to climate change. The master thesis will investigate the question to what extent water reuse is socially and politically accepted and considered legitimate in Switzerland. An in-depth analysis of the current institutional and political environment of the idea is an important condition to understand under which circumstances a change of practice and legislation and an implementation of innovative water reuse in Switzerland would be possible. Specifically, the master thesis addresses one or different dimensions of political and/or social legitimacy. These may be political, discursive, regulatory, cultural or other. The thesis may further address what factors influence legitimacy and how they change over time, and how current barriers in broader legitimacy might be overcome.
     
  • Pesticide Regulation: Plant protection is an important pillar of agricultural production. However, substances are regulated, not least because they may pose a risk to humans or the environment. Authorizations are on the one hand regulated on EU level, Switzerland follows, but not in every case, the European practice. This master thesis will systematically discuss when and how EU directives in plant protection or pesticide regulation are also implemented in Switzerland, and when they are not.
     
  • Biodiversity politics in Swiss Parliament: Preserving and promoting biodiversity is a politically anchored goal in Switzerland. It affects various policy fields such as water protection, forests and the environment, but also spatial planning and health. There are therefore countless parliamentary initiatives and acts dealing with biodiversity in a narrower or broader sense. We have collected documents around these initiatives and actors covering the period of the last 20 years. They are available in a text corpus for manual or automated content analysis. The following research questions could be interesting to follow: How has the political agenda with regard to biodiversity changed since 2000? Which actors are mainly concerned with the protection of species and landscapes, as well as the protection of genetic diversity? What kind of (changing) coalitions among actors are there? And which aspects do the actors and related documents emphasize or ignore?
     
  • Swiss Climate Policy and Politics: The CO2-Act is the centrepiece of Switzerland’s climate policy. Its development and content were massively debated among the opponents in the climate policy subsystem. In particular, the conflict arises between powerful economic groups, traffic organisations, the oil lobby, and conservative political parties, on the one side, and environmental organisations, NGOs, and progressive parties on the other side of the political spectrum. The main contestation is and was the introduction of a CO2 tax on combustibles and motor fuels. The tax on fuels has never been successful until today. Policy analysis research closely investigated the policy formulation process in the past two decades. Specifically, under the auspices of Karin Ingold, data on policy beliefs and policy networks of the involved actors were collected. This Master thesis adopts a historical perspective and through means of text analysis and the coding of consultation positions the development and ideological conflicts are depicted of 20 years of Swiss climate policy discourse.
     
  • Competence shifts to municipality associations: Municipalities are the lowest level in the Swiss multi-level system of political decision-making. They are under increasing pressure, given the challenges provided by technical developments in – for example – the infrastructure domain. One solution for municipalities to deal with these challenges and related lack of resources and expertise is to delegate certain competencies to municipality associations. The prospective MA thesis deals with the question why such shifts of competences are accepted or not by municipalities, and under what context conditions they are successful or not. The thesis analyses this question for the domain of wastewater and drinking water.
     
  • Privatization of drinking water: The population of the canton of Zurich will soon vote on the revision of the integrated cantonal water law. The main reason for the high public interest and the conflictive discussions around the revision of this law is due to the fact that an element in the law explicitly provides the option for private firms to acquire parts of the drinking water supply system. The discussions in the canton of Zurich might very well influence related discussions in other cantons. The prospective MA thesis analyses the policy process and the actor network around the revision of the Zurich water law, as well as actors’ preferences and strategies around the question of privatisation of water supply against the background of policy process and network theories.
     
  • Protection of deep groundwater: Deep groundwater is increasingly concerned by different uses such as the extraction of mineral water, geo-thermical drillings, future CO2 storage as well as the agricultural use of water due to climate change. The protection and the related coordination of uses (as for example through prioritizing given types of uses) needs to be adapted to these new challenges in order to prevent future problems in regulation and uncertainties for users. The prospective MA thesis prepares basic parameters related to this issue and identifies and critically evaluates relevant actors, interests, conflicts, opportunities for coordination and policy instruments related to the protection of deep groundwater.
     
  • River restoration in Switzerland: Comparing cantonal strategies: In the next decades, Switzerland will restore (revitalize) an important part of its rivers. While the goals and basic criteria and financing mechanisms are defined at the national level, cantons are mainly responsible for identifying the river parts which should be restored. Swiss cantons thereby encounter different political and geographical challenges, and, as a consequence, organize their strategic planning of restoration measures in different ways, and rely on different criteria. Given the long-term task of restoring rivers, knowing how cantons plan their measures, and thus allowing for cross-cantonal learning over time, is crucial. The aim of the MA thesis is to compare cantonal planning processes, resources, approaches, and actor constellations related to restoration planning, and thus to identify why given types of cantons act in specific ways. Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) might be a good methodological approach for such a comparison. (German knowledge required)

Research

The Chair's main research topics are Policy Analysis, Policy Process Theory, Instrument Design, Environmental Policy and the Application of Social Network Analysis.

Research projects

Completed Research Projects