Abteilung Umweltsozialwissenschaften

Entscheidungsprozesse in der nationalen und internationalen Klimapolitik

 

Der Klimawandel ist ein Umweltproblem im globalen Ausmass. In der Folge ist Politik, die eine Vermeidung des Klimawandels zum Ziel hat, notwendigerweise immer ein Wechselspiel aus internationalen und nationalen Politiken. Dieses «Zweiebenenspiel» ist ein zentraler Fokus in diesem Forschungsschwerpunkt. Insbesondere interessieren wir uns für die Faktoren und Mechanismen, welche die Wahl von politischen Instrumenten und Zielsetzungen erklären. Durch eine detaillierte Analyse und den Vergleich von Präferenzen und Entscheidungsstrategien der politischen Eliten im nationalen Prozess und der Delegierten in den internationalen Klimakonferenzen, untersuchen wir die Umsetzbarkeit verschiedener Politikinstrumente zur Reduktion von Treibhausgasemissionen. Darüber hinaus erforschen wir die Gründe für die häufig beobachtete Divergenz internationaler Versprechungen und nationaler Politiken. Ein zweiter Fokus dieses Forschungsschwerpunkts ist der Vergleich verschiedener Methoden zur Analyse von Präferenzen und Entscheidungsstrukturen in der Klimapolitik. Wir verwenden für die Analyse verschiedene quantitative und qualitative Methoden, insbesondere Diskursanalyse, Netzwerkanalyse, Regression und Multikriterien-Analyse.

 

Website mit weiteren Informationen (Universität  Bern)

Projektteam

Externe Teammitglieder

Dr. Marlene Kammerer (Institute of Political Science, Universität Bern)

Publikationen

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      title => protected'Two levels, two strategies: explaining the gap between Swiss national and in
         ternational responses toward climate change
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         s; Switzerland; two-level game
' (106 chars) description => protected'In a complex and multilevel regime, countries’ national and international
         strategies to address climate change may considerably differ. Adopting an ac
         tor-centered approach, the aim of this article is to outline and understand
         the potential difference between a nation’s domestic climate policy and it
         s position in the international climate regime. We adopt social network anal
         ysis focusing on actors’ identification, their relational profiles, intere
         sts, and resources. Through survey data and content analysis, we focus on th
         ose actors’ positions within Swiss national and foreign climate policy. Re
         sults show that it is crucial to identify actors that participate in both th
         e national and foreign policymaking. But participation on two levels seems t
         o be a necessary but not sufficient condition. Actors should play a central
         role in both processes, and defend similar policy interests on the two level
         s, in order for them to be able to coordinate actions and produce coherent o
         utputs in overlapping subsystems.
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         s climate policy over 15 years
' (106 chars) journal => protected'Global Environmental Change' (27 chars) year => protected2014 (integer) volume => protected24 (integer) issue => protected'1' (1 chars) startpage => protected'88' (2 chars) otherpage => protected'98' (2 chars) categories => protected'climate mitigation policy; social network analysis; stochastic actor-oriente
         d models
' (84 chars) description => protected'Climate change mitigation policy is driven by scientific knowledge and invol
         ves actors from the international, national and local decision-making levels
         . This multi-level and cross-sectoral context requires collaborative managem
         ent when designing mitigation solutions over time and space. But collaborati
         on in general policymaking settings, and particularly in the complex domain
         of climate mitigation, is not an easy task. This paper addresses the questio
         n of what drives collaboration among collective actors involved in climate m
         itigation policy. We wish to investigate whether common beliefs or power str
         uctures influence collaboration among actors. We adopt a longitudinal approa
         ch to grasp differences between the early and more advanced stages of mitiga
         tion policy design. We use survey data to investigate actors’ collaboratio
         n, beliefs and power, and apply a Stochastic Actor-oriented Model for networ
         k dynamics to three subsequent networks in Swiss climate policy between 1995
          and 2012. Results show that common beliefs among actors, as well as formal
         power structures, have a higher impact on collaboration relations than perce
         ived power structures. Furthermore, those effects hold true for decision-mak
         ing about initial mitigation strategies, but less so for the implementation
         of those measures.
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          policy brokers when explaining policy change. However, this prominent polic
         y approach neither clearly defines who the policy brokers are nor identifies
          under which institutional rules they have an influence on policy processes
         and outputs. This article thus formulates two theoretical hypotheses that co
         mplement the ACF and then proceeds to undertake the first empirical testing
         of these hypotheses within the Swiss climate policy (1990-2008). The empiric
         al results show that, in the case under investigation, the <I>strategic inte
         rest-based behavior</I> of two policy brokers (i.e., one public administrati
         on and one political party), as well as two <I>institutionalized veto points
         </I> (i.e., optional referendum and parliamentary committee), are crucial fa
         ctors explaining policy brokers' influence on policy process and change.
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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, Institutional Repository
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, Institutional Repository
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, Institutional Repository

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Finanzierung: Sinergia SNF, OCCR, IPW

Dauer: September 2014 – Juli 2020