Dr. Marlene Kammerer

Guest editor 

• Nagel, Melanie and Kammerer, Marlene: Special Issue on Local Climate Policy, in Review of Policy Research, November 2023, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15411338/2023/40/6

Peer-reviewed publications

2025

• Kammerer, M.; Baker, J.; Fesenfeld, L.; Maier, M.; Montfort, S.; Ingold I. (2025). Hijacking or Helping?—How Political Actors Use the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Climate Discourse to Advocate Their Policy Beliefs and Preferences. Policy Sciences. DOI: 10.1007/s11077-025-09587-4.

• Ylä-Anttila, T.; Tindall, D.; Gronow, A.; Broadbent, J.; Brockhaus, M.; Kammerer, M.; Karimo, A.; Kotkaniemi, A.; Kukkonen, A.; Malkamäki, A.; Ocelik, P.; Satoh, K.; Stoddart, M. C. J.; Swarnakar P.; Wagner P. (2025). Climate Policy Networks. In: Barnes L. M.; Bodin, Ö. (Eds.), Handbook of Social Networks and the Environment (pp. 244–260). Edward Elgar Publishing. DOI: 10.4337/9781035318759.00026.

• Kammerer, M.; Zeigermann, U. (2025). Managing Climate Impacts—An Analysis of Adaptation Funding in German Cities and Districts. npj Clim. Action, 4(76). DOI: 10.1038/s44168-025-00280-z.

• Kammerer, M.; Beer, T.; Wiedemann, R. (2025): Taming Plastic Pollution—A Systematic Mapping of the Literature on Plastic Policies Between 2009 and 2024. Regional Environmental Change, 25(90). DOI: 10.1007/s10113-025-02420-x.

• Al-Zawidah, H.; Kammerer, M.; Mitrano, D. M.; Waldschläger K. (2025). Opportunities and Challenges of a Cap-and-Trade System for Plastics. Environmental Science and Technology. DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.4c04931.

• Baker, J.; Kammerer, M.; Castro, P.; Ingold, K. (2025). The Vertical Policy Harmonization Indices: Assessing the Gap Between Climate Mitigation Pledges and Policies. Climate Policy, 1–16. DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2024.2443482.

2024

• Castro, P.; Kammerer, M.; Michaelowa, A. (2024). How Does Polycentric Engagement Relate to Countries’ NDC Ambition and Mitigation Policy Effort? Global Environmental Politics, 1-27. DOI: 10.1162/glep_a_00751.

2023

• 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, 36(4), 442-450. DOI: 10.1080/08941920.2023.2175284.
   
• Nagel, Melanie and Kammerer, Marlene (2023): Editorial to Special Issue on “Local Climate Policy” - Tackling climate change on the local level: a growing research agenda, in Review Policy Research, Early View, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ropr.12577?af=R
   
• Stoddart, Mark, Tyndall, David, Brockhaus, Maria, and Kammerer, Marlene (2023): What is the role of COP meetings in global climate governance? Reflecting on COP 26 and the Glasgow Pact, Accepted for Publication “Society & Natural Resources”, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08941920.2023.2175284.
   
• Kammerer, Marlene, Müller, Sean, Ingold, Karin & Gallmann, Maria: Climate Governance and Federalism: Switzerland (2023), In: “Climate governance and Federalism” eds. Johanna Setzer & Sebastien Jodoin (Eds.), Cambridge Press.

2022

• Zeigermann, Ulrike, Kammerer, Marlene and Böcher, Michael (2022): What drives local communities to engage in climate change mitigation activities? Examining the rural-urban divide, Review of Policy Research, Early View, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ropr.12528.

2021

• Kammerer, Marlene, and Ingold, Karin (2021): Actors and their preferences in climate change policy: The maturation of a policy discourse in the national and international context. Social Networks, Early View, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2021.08.005.
   
• Castro, Paula, and Kammerer, Marlene (2021): The Institutionalization of a Cleavage: How Differential Treatment Affects State Behaviour in the Climate Negotiations, International Studies Quarterly 65(3): 683–98,  https://doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqab045.
   
• Kammerer, Marlene; Ingold, Karin; Dupois, Johann (2021): Switzerland: International Commitments and Domestic Drawbacks, in: Wurzel, Rüdiger; Andersen, Mikael Skou; Tobin, Paul (eds.): Climate Governance Across the Globe: Pioneers, Leaders, and Followers. Routledge Research in Comparative Politics, 235-56, https://www.routledge.com/Climate-Governance-across-the-Globe-Pioneers-Leaders-and-Followers/Wurzel-Andersen-Tobin/p/book/9780367434366. 
   
• Kammerer, Marlene; Wagner, Paul; Gronow, Antti; Ylä-Anttila, Tuomas; Fisher, Dana R.; Sun-Jin, Yun (2021): What Explains Collaboration in High and Low Conflict Contexts? Comparing Climate Change Policy Networks in Four Countries. Policy Studies Journal 49(4): 1065-86, https://doi.org/10.1111/psj.12422.

2020

• Ingold, Karin; Varone, Frédéric; Kammerer, Marlene; Metz, Florence; Kammermann, Lorenz; Storz, Chantal (2020): Are responses to official consultations and stakeholder surveys reliable guides to policy actors’ positions? Policy & Politics 48 (2): 193-222, https://doi.org/10.1332/030557319X15613699478503.
   
• Kammerer, Marlene, Ingold, Karin, Dupois, Johann (2021): Switzerland: International Commitments and Domestic Drawbacks, in: Wurzel, Rüdiger; Andersen, Mikael Skou; Tobin, Paul (eds.): Climate Governance Across the Globe: Pioneers, Leaders, and Followers. Routledge Research in Comparative Politics, pp. 235-56.

2019

• Kammerer, Marlene; Crameri, Fadri; Ingold, Karin (2019): Das Klima und die EU: Eine Diskursperspektive auf die deutsche und schweizerische Klimapolitik, in: Emmenegger, Patrick, Giger, Nathalie, Careja, Romana (eds.): The European Social Model under Pressure – Liber Amicorum in Honour of Klaus Armingeon. Publisher: Springer. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-658-27043-8.

2018

• Kammerer, Marlene, and Namhata, Chandreyee (2018): What drives the Adoption of Climate Change Mitigation Policy? A Dynamic Network Approach to Policy Diffusion, Policy Sciences 51: 477-513, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11077-018-9332-6.
   
• Kammerer, Marlene 2018: Climate Politics at the Intersection between International Dynamics and National Decision-making: A Policy Network Approach, Dissertation, University of Zurich.

Conference Proceedings

2023

• Al-Zawidah, Hadeel; Waldschläger, Kryss; Mitrano, Denise; Kammerer, Marlene: Opportunities and challenges of cap and trade policy for the plastic market, EISAPEC, Potsdam, September 2023
   
• Blindenbacher, Sophie; Baker, Jack; Kammerer, Marlene: Keeping climate promises in federalist countries, ISA Conference, Montreal, Canda, March 2023
   
• Castro, Paula and Kammerer, Marlene: Countries’ climate mitigation performance: Exploring the links between the ambition of NDC targets and effective national implementation, ESG Conference, Nijmegen, October 2023
   
• Kammerer, Marlene; Wagner, Paul; Ingold, Karin; Fesenfeld, Lukas; Dana Fischer, Tuomas Ylä-Anttila, Antti Grownow, Pradip Swarnakar: Harmonizing international commitments with domestic policymaking- the role of two-level connectors and networking structure, EISAPEC, Potsdam, September 2023

2022

• Kammerer, Marlene: To keep or not to keep promises. – A large-N analysis of country motives to vertical policy harmonization. Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Funded Special Issue Workshop 2022, Mannheim, organized by Jale Tonsun & Simon Schaub.
   
• Castro, Paula; Kammerer, Marlene: Between Global Goals, Domestic Action, and Polycentric Networks: Explaining Ambition of International Climate Change Mitigation Commitments and their Alignment with National Policies, ESG Conference 2022, Toronto, Canada.
   
• Kammerer, Marlene; Fesenfeld, Lukas; Ingold, Karin: Two level connectors in German climate politics, ECPR General Conference 2022, Innsbruck, https://ecpr.eu/Events/Event/PaperDetails/65117.
   
• Fesenfeld, Lukas; Flachsland, Christian; Ingold, Karin; Kammerer, Marlene; Levi, Sebastian: Explaining CO2 price adoption: The interaction between public opinion and advocacy coalition, ECPR General Conference 2022, Innsbruck, https://ecpr.eu/Events/Event/PaperDetails/65587.
   
• Castro, Paula; Kammerer, Marlene: Climate Policy as a Two-Level Game; What Explains the Ambition of International Commitments and their Alignment with National Policies, Annual MPSA Conference 2022, virtual event, see submission.

2021

• Kammerer, Marlene; Baker, Jack; Ingold, Karin; Castro, Paula: Measuring the Words vs. Deeds Gap: A presentation of the Vertical Policy Harmonization Index, SVPW Annual Conference, 2021, Bern, virtual event.
   
• Wiedemann, Ruth, and Kammerer, Marlene (2021): Approaches and challenges to data gathering for policy networks – a systematic literature review, European Conference on Social Networks EUSN 2021, virtual event, http://www.eusn2021.unina.it/download/session_booklet.pdf.

2020

• Zeigermann, Ulrike, Kammerer, Marlene & Böcher, Michael 2020: Coordinating climate change mitigation policies in rural Germany: A comparative policy network analysis of 32 districts in two Laender. Conference Proceeding, In: ECPR General Conference 2020, Virtual Event.

2019

• Castro, Paula & Kammerer, Marlene, 2019: It is Not as Bad as it Looks: Comparing Countries’ Cooperation on Climate Change Inside and Outside the UNFCCC Negotiations. Conference Proceeding, In: ECPR Joint Sessions 2019. Mons, Belgium. 08.04.-12.04.2019.
   
• Kammerer, Marlene & Ingold, Karin, 2019: Connectivity between international and national policymaking: The Impact of Climate Summits on Swiss National Policymaking. Conference Proceeding, In ECPR General Confernce, Wroclav, Poland, 2019.

2018

• Kammerer, Marlene (2018): Climate Politics at the Intersection between International Dynamics and National Decision-making: A Policy Network Approach, Dissertation, University of Zurich, https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-152954.
   
• Castro, Paula & Kammerer, Marlene, 2018: The politicization of the climate: How and why has the Annex I – non-Annex I division affected negotiations under the climate change regime? Conference Proceeding, ECPR General Conference, Hamburg 2018.
   
• Ingold, Karin; Varone, Frédéric; Kammerer, Marlene et al., 2018: Measuring Policy Positions Through Elite Survey: Can We Trust All Policy Actors? Conference Proceeding, International Workshops on Public Policy, Pittsburgh, USA.
   
• Kammerer, Marlene; Wagner, Paul; Ylä-Anttila, Tuomas; Grönow, Antti, 2018: Collaboration to mitigate climate change – Does the institutional context matter? A comparative case study of Finland, South Korea, Switzerland, and the United States Conference Proceeding, Environmental Policy and Governance Conference 2018, Stockholm.

2017

• Kammerer, Marlene, 2016: What Triggers Interest Groups Interests? A Case Study of Swiss Climate Change Mitigation Policy. Conference Proceeding, SVPW Conference 2017, St. Gallen, Switzerland.
   
• Kammerer, Marlene & Bagchi, Chandreyee, 2017: Climate Change Mitigation in the Nexus. A Dynamic Network Approach to Study International Policy Diffusion. Conference Proceeding, SVPW Conference 2017, St. Gallen, Switzerland.

2015

• Kammerer, Marlene & Hirschi, Christian, 2015: Policy Networks and Belief Systems. The drivers of Cooperation in International Climate Change Politics 2001 – 2014. Conference Proceeding, MPSA Conference 2015, Chicago, USA.

2014

• Kammerer, Marlene & Hirschi, Christian, 2014: The Politics of Market-Based Instruments: A Case Study of Swiss Climate Change Policy, Conference Proceeding, ECPR General Conference 2014, Glasgow, Scotland.

Outreach activities

• UNFCCC Side Event – Transparency & harmonization of NDCs and national climate policies as a driver for implementation, Bonn Climate Conferences 2023, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mususTiwCig
   
• Tindall, David; Stoddart, Mark; Brockhaus, Maria; Kammerer, Marlene (2022): COP 27 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.
   
• Member of expert panel in an art performance in June 2021 (to be continued in 2022): KlimaKontor Basel and Gussets, Patrick (2021): The future of the earth: preenacting climate scenarios, artistic research performance, Theater Roxy, Basel, Switzerland, http://web.archive.org/web/20210604102416/https://theater-roxy.ch/.
   
• Kammerer, Marlene, and Crameri, Fadri (2020): Klimapolitik in den Medien: Akteure, Themen und Koalitionen. De Facto Article, https://www.defacto.expert/2020/04/24/klimapolitik-in-den-medien-akteure-themenund-koalitionen/.

• What international negotiators promise and domestic policymakers adopt: Policy and politics in the multi-level climate change regime
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• Entscheidungsprozesse in der Klimapolitik
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• Multiplexe Netzwerke in der schweizerischen und deutschen Klimapolitik
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• Vergleich klimapolitscher Netzwerke
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