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Overview

Karin Ingold is affiliated with the University of Bern in Switzerland and operates primarily within the fields of social sciences and environmental science. Their research spans various subfields, including political science and international relations, global and planetary change, sociology and political science, economics and econometrics, and public administration.

The scientist's publications focus mainly on topics such as policy transfer and learning, sustainability and climate change governance, public policy and administration research, climate change policy and economics, electoral systems and political participation, disaster management and resilience, and political influence and corporate strategies.

Notable recent papers by Karin Ingold include:

  • COVID-19 and the policy sciences: initial reactions and perspectives (2020) published in Policy Sciences
  • Pathways for advancing pesticide policies (2020) published in Nature Food
  • Where do Smart Cities grow? The spatial and socio-economic configurations of smart city development (2021) published in Sustainable Cities and Society
  • How flood risks shape policies: flood exposure and risk perception in Swiss municipalities (2020) published in Regional Environmental Change
  • Boundary Spanning Through Engagement of Policy Actors in Multiple Issues (2020) published in Policy Studies Journal

Karin Ingold collaborates frequently with a number of co-authors, including Manuel Fischer, Christopher M. Weible, Lukas Fesenfeld, Marlene Kammerer, and Daniel Nohrstedt.

Their scholarly contributions appear often in several publication venues, with the most frequent being Policy Sciences, European Policy Analysis, Regional Environmental Change, Environmental Science & Policy, and Policy Studies Journal.

Best Publications

  • COVID-19 and the policy sciences: initial reactions and perspectives.

    Christopher M. Weible;Daniel Nohrstedt;Paul Cairney;David P. Carter

  • Stakeholder analysis combined with social network analysis provides fine-grained insights into water infrastructure planning processes

    Judit Lienert;Florian Schnetzer;Karin Ingold;Karin Ingold

  • Network Structures within Policy Processes: Coalitions, Power, and Brokerage in Swiss Climate Policy

    Karin Ingold

  • Socio-Technical Transitions and Policy Change - Advocacy Coalitions in Swiss Energy Policy

    Jochen Markard;Marco Suter;Karin Ingold;Karin Ingold;Karin Ingold

  • The Advocacy Coalition Framework: An Overview of the Research Program

    Hank C. Jenkins-Smith;Daniel Nohrstedt;Christopher M. Weible;Karin Ingold

  • Improving network approaches to the study of complex social-ecological interdependencies

    Örjan Bodin;S. M. Alexander;J. Baggio;M. L. Barnes

  • Pathways for advancing pesticide policies

    Niklas Möhring;Karin Ingold;Karin Ingold;Per Kudsk;Fabrice Martin-Laurent

  • Treating Policy Brokers Seriously: Evidence from the Climate Policy

    Karin Miryam Ingold;Frédéric Varone

  • Water Resources Management: What Should Be Integrated?

    Janet G. Hering;Janet G. Hering;Karin M. Ingold;Karin M. Ingold

  • Drivers of collaboration to mitigate climate change: an illustration of Swiss climate policy over 15 years

    Karin Ingold;Karin Ingold;Manuel Fischer

  • Structural and Institutional Determinants of Influence Reputation: A Comparison of Collaborative and Adversarial Policy Networks in Decision Making and Implementation

    Karin Ingold;Karin Ingold;Philip Leifeld;Philip Leifeld

  • Bringing the policy making perspective in: a political science approach to social acceptance

    Clau Dermont;Karin Ingold;Karin Ingold;Karin Ingold;Lorenz Kammermann;Lorenz Kammermann;Isabelle Stadelmann-Steffen

  • Sharpening Advocacy Coalitions

    Christopher M. Weible;Karin Ingold;Daniel Nohrstedt;Adam Douglas Henry

  • Policy Change in Comparative Contexts: Applying the Advocacy Coalition Framework Outside of Western Europe and North America

    Adam Douglas Henry;Karin Mirjam Ingold;Daniel Nohrstedt;Christopher M. Weible

  • Exceptional or just well connected? Political entrepreneurs and brokers in policy making

    Dimitris Christopoulos;Karin Ingold

  • Why advocacy coalitions matter and practical insights about them

    Christopher M. Weible;Karin Ingold

  • Drivers for Policy Agreement in Nascent Subsystems: An Application of the Advocacy Coalition Framework to Fracking Policy in Switzerland and the UK

    Karin Ingold;Manuel Fischer;Paul Cairney

  • Social-ecological network analysis for sustainability sciences: a systematic review and innovative research agenda for the future

    J S Sayles;M Mancilla Garcia;M Hamilton;S M Alexander

  • Science in Policy-Making: Neutral Experts or Strategic Policy-Makers?

    Karin Ingold;Muriel Luzia Gschwend

  • Climate change in mountain regions: how local communities adapt to extreme events

    Karin Ingold;Jörg Balsiger;Christian Hirschi

  • Sustainable Wastewater Management: Is it Possible to Regulate Micropollution in the Future by Learning from the Past? A Policy Analysis

    Florence Alessa Metz;Karin Ingold

  • Where do Smart Cities grow? The spatial and socio-economic configurations of smart city development

    Mert Duygan;Mert Duygan;Manuel Fischer;Manuel Fischer;Rea Pärli;Karin Ingold;Karin Ingold

Frequent Co-Authors

Manuel Fischer
Manuel Fischer Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Frédéric Varone
Frédéric Varone University of Geneva
Christopher M. Weible
Christopher M. Weible University of Colorado Denver
Daniel Nohrstedt
Daniel Nohrstedt Uppsala University
Koen Verhoest
Koen Verhoest University of Antwerp
Stefan Brönnimann
Stefan Brönnimann University of Bern
Paul Cairney
Paul Cairney University of Stirling
Martin Grosjean
Martin Grosjean University of Bern
Christoph C. Raible
Christoph C. Raible University of Bern

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