Policy Analysis and Environmental Governance, PEGO

16/04/2019

💥Karin Ingold Policy Analysis and Environmental Governance, PEGO Institut für Politikwissenschaft, Universität Bern EAWAG is currently presenting her work on connectivity between problems and environmental governance The Graduate Institute, Geneva. 👩‍💼

05/03/2019

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publication on how and their solutions can be linked more . should drive the appropriate choice of . Check it out 👉https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09640568.2018.1486700 Institut für Politikwissenschaft, Universität Bern EAWAG Utrecht University

05/03/2019

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! for the project "Digital Innovation for Municipal Projects–the PlaNet Tool for Participatory Project Management"- to better understand the use and the effects of planning tools in local . https://apply.refline.ch/673277/0690/pub/1/index.html👇

14/01/2019

Mario Angst and his computer 💻 read more than 20’000 newspaper articles about Swiss water governance. They did so to get a grasp of how water issues are related to each other in the media.
After that, Mario compared the resulting network of issue relations to how organizations working in water governance related water issues in their activity.
Results indicate that this type of procedure can highlight especially newly emerging issue relations, which might not have found their way into considerations of organizations yet. In the Swiss case, this relates especially to the coordination between water saving measures and drought risks; the exploitation of subterranean resources and drinking water protection; and issues of micropollutants. Find out more 💥👉

(2019). Networks of Swiss Water Governance Issues. Studying Fit between Media Attention and Organizational Activity. Society & Natural Resources. Ahead of Print.

21/12/2018

😀💫New Policy Analysis and Environmental Governance, PEGO publication on ties between MPs and interest groups.
Manuel Fischer et al. investigate whether linkages between members of parliament (MPs) and interest groups influence MPs' activities of co-sponsoring legislative proposals.
Based on statistical models for network data, the study builds on classical explanations of co-sponsorships highlighting the role of similar ties between MPs, such as party membership, legislative committee assignments, electoral district or gender.
It shows that, on top of these traditional forms of homophily, MPs’ ties to interest groups matter as well. MPs with ties to a similar type of interest groups are more likely to co-sponsor their respective proposals. The same holds for MPs with ties to groups active in the same policy domain. These findings have implications for the study of groups’ lobbying, legislative behaviour and representative democracy.👉 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378873317304835?via%3Dihub

07/12/2018

❗️❗️😊New paper by Mario Angst: 👉https://doi.org/10.1111/psj.12301

Theories of policymaking often focus on subsystems within a larger, overarching governance system. However, subsystem identification is complicated by the complexity of governance systems, characterized by multiple, interrelated issues, multi-level interactions, and a diverse set of organizations.
A new study by Mario Angst suggests an empirical, bottom-up methodology to identify subsystems. Subsystems are identified based on bundles of similar observed organizational activity.
Read the article to find out about how this turned out for the case of Swiss water governance. 👉
https://doi.org/10.1111/psj.12301
Policy Analysis and Environmental Governance, PEGO Institut für Politikwissenschaft, Universität Bern EAWAG

Policy Studies Journal Volume 0, Issue 0 Regular Issue Paper Bottom‐Up Identification of Subsystems in Complex Governance Systems Mario Angst https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8297-9827Search for more papers by this author Mario Angst https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8297-9827Search for more papers by this a...

07/12/2018

😃New paper by Lorenz Kammermann & Karin Ingold:
👉https://doi.org/10.1007/s11077-018-9341-5
The paper is about stakeholders’ acceptance regarding regulatory instruments in energy policy. We expect that today’s introduced instruments not only correspond most to technocratic principles and what elected officials prefer, but that they correlate with the preferences of a wider number of public and private actors in policymaking. We compare three cantons in Switzerland and gather data through a systematic literature review, expert interviews, and surveys.
👉❗️Read the article here: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11077-018-9341-5
Policy Analysis and Environmental Governance, PEGO Institut für Politikwissenschaft, Universität Bern EAWAG

This paper is about stakeholders’ acceptance regarding regulatory instruments in energy policy. We expect that today’s introduced instruments not only correspond most to technocratic principles and...

07/12/2018

😃Visiting vineyards 🍈🍷and discussing collective action 💦🤝at Lake Biel with our guest Edella Schlager (University of Arizona College of Social and Behavioral Sciences ) 😎
Policy Analysis and Environmental Governance, PEGO
Institut für Politikwissenschaft, Universität Bern

31/10/2018

💥😀New paper by Ingold, Stadelmann-Steffen and Kammermann.
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2018.10.018

Citizens are the target group of sustainability policies, and their acceptance and subsequent behavioral change are key in transition processes. But what drives citizens to accept new instruments that will be added to a pre-existing instrument mix? To answer this question, we suggest an innovative combination of sustainability transitions and social acceptance research, and examine the case of Swiss energy turnaround. We rely on data from a representative sample of the Swiss resident population. By estimating logistic multi-response models, we disentangle individual and context-related factors that drive instrument preferences in a instrument mix situation. We conclude that it is mainly individual factors (values in favor of nuclear phasing out and climate mitigation) that positively impact the acceptance of instruments that promote the larger energy transitions through renewables. Additionally, the self-contribution of citizens (energy pro-sumers) seems to shape preferences more than current policies of their own jurisdiction.

19/10/2018

Save the date!🗓😁 We invite you to join us on December. 10 at the Universität Bern to discuss adaptive responses and governance in the face of climate disturbances with Edella Schlager (University of Arizona) and Jesse M. Keenan (Harvard University). Details👇☀️ Register until December, 1 👉www.oeschger.unibe.ch/registration_seminar Policy Analysis and Environmental Governance, PEGO Institut für Politikwissenschaft, Universität Bern Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research

10/10/2018

📚Submit your manuscripts for the Special Issue “Public Policy Analysis of Integrated Water Resource Management“💧💧👉https://www.mdpi.com/journal/water/special_issues/water_resource_policy_analysis … 💦 Policy Analysis and Environmental Governance, PEGO

Water, an international, peer-reviewed Open Access journal.

02/10/2018

New paper out in Social Science Research by Carolin Rapp, Karin Ingold and Markus Freitag. 👉https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2018.09.001 😀
In this paper we ask if personality traits significantly relate to individuals' social integration and position in their ego-network. We rely on data from a Swiss population survey carried out in 2005 that combines detailed information on ties in egocentric networks and personality traits for about 1600 respondents. We show that neurotic persons have a tendency towards triad structures encompassing structural holes, whereas extroverted persons show a preference for networks with stronger ties.
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