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Overview

Manuel Fischer is affiliated with the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology in Switzerland. Their research primarily spans the fields of Social Sciences and Environmental Science, with an emphasis on subfields such as Political Science and International Relations, Global and Planetary Change, Public Administration, Sociology and Political Science, and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law.

The main topics covered in Fischer's work include Sustainability and Climate Change Governance, Policy Transfer and Learning, Public Policy and Administration Research, Local Government Finance and Decentralization, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Electoral Systems and Political Participation, and Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development.

Some of Fischer's recent publications include:

  • Interactions among Sustainable Development Goals: Knowledge for identifying multipliers and virtuous cycles (2020), Sustainable Development
  • Where do Smart Cities grow? The spatial and socio-economic configurations of smart city development (2021), Sustainable Cities and Society
  • Collaborative Governance and the Challenges of Network-Based Research (2020), The American Review of Public Administration
  • Policy integration: Do laws or actors integrate issues relevant to flood risk management in Switzerland? (2020), Global Environmental Change
  • Barriers to the digital transformation of infrastructure sectors (2021), Policy Sciences

Fischer frequently publishes in venues such as Policy Sciences, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Journal of Environmental Management, Policy Studies Journal, and Environmental Science & Policy.

Collaborations have been established with a number of coauthors, including Karin Ingold, Eva Lieberherr, Mario Angst, Martin Nicola Huber, and Rea Pärli.

Best Publications

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

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

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

    Karin Ingold;Karin Ingold;Manuel Fischer

  • Interactions among Sustainable Development Goals: : Knowledge for identifying multipliers and virtuous cycles

    Myriam Pham-Truffert;Florence Alessa Metz;Florence Alessa Metz;Manuel Fischer;Manuel Fischer;Henri Rueff

  • Policy forums: Why do they exist and what are they used for?

    Manuel Fischer;Manuel Fischer;Philip Leifeld;Philip Leifeld;Philip Leifeld

  • Coalition Structures and Policy Change in a Consensus Democracy

    Manuel Fischer

  • 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

  • Unpacking reputational power: Intended and unintended determinants of the assessment of actors’ power

    Manuel Fischer;Pascal Sciarini

  • Qualitative Comparative Analysis and the Study of Policy Processes

    Manuel Fischer;Martino Maggetti

  • Political Decision-Making in Switzerland: The Consensus Model under Pressure

    Pascal Sciarini;Manuel Fischer;Denise Traber

  • Drivers of collaboration in political decision making: a cross-sector perspective

    Manuel Fischer;Pascal Sciarini

  • 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

  • Social Network Analysis and Qualitative Comparative Analysis: Their Mutual Benefit for the Explanation of Policy Network Structures

    Manuel Fischer

  • Connectors and coordinators in natural resource governance: insights from Swiss water supply

    Mario Angst;Alexander Widmer;Manuel Fischer;Karin Ingold

  • Collaborative Governance and the Challenges of Network-Based Research

    Ramiro Berardo;Manuel Fischer;Matthew Hamilton

  • Achieving the SDGs with Biodiversity

    Andreas Obrecht;Myriam Pham-Truffert;Eva Spehn;Davnah Payne

  • In search of political influence: Outside lobbying behaviour and media coverage of social movements, interest groups and political parties in six Western European countries

    Anke Tresch;Manuel Fischer

  • Policy integration: Do laws or actors integrate issues relevant to flood risk management in Switzerland?

    Florence Metz;Florence Metz;Mario Angst;Manuel Fischer

  • Power and Conflict in the Swiss Political Elite: An Aggregation of Existing Network Analyses

    Manuel Fischer;Alex Fischer;Pascal Sciarini

  • Institutions and coalitions in policy processes: a cross-sectoral comparison

    Manuel Fischer

  • Dealing with bad guys: actor- and process-level determinants of the “devil shift” in policy making

    Manuel Fischer;Karin Miryam Ingold;Pascal Sciarini;Frédéric Varone

  • Policy Debates on Hydraulic Fracturing. Comparing Coalition Politics in North America and Europe

    Christopher M. Weible;Tanya Heikkila;Karin Ingold;Manuel Fischer

  • Barriers to the digital transformation of infrastructure sectors.

    Liliane Manny;Liliane Manny;Mert Duygan;Mert Duygan;Mert Duygan;Manuel Fischer;Manuel Fischer;Jörg Rieckermann

  • Collaboration patterns, external shocks and uncertainty: Swiss nuclear energy politics before and after Fukushima

    Manuel Fischer

  • Drivers for Policy Agreement in Nascent Subsystems: An Application of the Advocacy Coalition Framework to Fracking Policy in Switzerland and the UK (Forthcoming/Available Online)

    Karin Ingold;Manuel Fischer;Paul Cairney

Frequent Co-Authors

Karin Ingold
Karin Ingold University of Bern
Pascal Sciarini
Pascal Sciarini University of Geneva
Frédéric Varone
Frédéric Varone University of Geneva
Paul Cairney
Paul Cairney University of Stirling
Janet G. Hering
Janet G. Hering Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Tanya Heikkila
Tanya Heikkila University of Colorado Denver
Christopher M. Weible
Christopher M. Weible University of Colorado Denver
Garry Robins
Garry Robins University of Melbourne
Ramiro Berardo
Ramiro Berardo The Ohio State University

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