Matthias Finger
Biographic Data
| ID | 3911364 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthias Finger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthias |
| FAMILY NAME | Finger |
| SIGNATURE | FINGER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3597-2403 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 53 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
A conceptual construct on value for infrastructure asset management
Understanding the meaning of value to asset-intensive organizations and their stakeholders has been a long-standing goal of researchers and managers of the asset management community. These issues have become particularly prominent with the publication of the ISO 5500x series of standards on asset management. These standards are intended to guide asset-intensive organizations of different types towards realising value from their asset base. Howev…
The GlobalArctic Handbook
The Effect of European Integration on Swiss Energy Policy and Governance
The unique “Swiss way” of association with the European Union (EU) has received increasing attention in light of recent events such as Brexit as it is based on sectoral agreements without an overarching institutional framework. As such, Europeanization of Swiss domestic policy does not follow a straightforward process. We examine the external governance processes that drive the Europeanization of Swiss energy policy. Switzerland and the EU are hi…
Strategic Objectives for State‐owned Enterprises as a Means to Mitigate Political Interference: An Empirical Analysis of Two Swiss State‐owned Enterprises
When governments act as owners of state‐owned enterprises (SOEs), they are both principal and agent at the same time. The literature on steering SOEs has mainly focused on the government as the principal that must control SOEs. However, the government is also an agent, vis‐à‐vis the parliament, because democratic constitutions stipulate some form of parliamentary oversight of the government. This oversight includes checks on how the government st…
Utilities Policy special issue on Latin America
The “Global Arctic” as a New Geopolitical Context and Method
The term "GlobalArctic" was officially launched at the 2014 Arctic Circle Assembly (see: www.globalarctic.org). The idea for this term was not conceived in a vacuum; rather it was the outcome of a critical analysis on the state of Arctic geopolitics and security in the era of globalization with complex and deeply interdependent ecological, economic, environmental, cultural, political, and societal processes. It is important to note that global im…
Yes, No, Maybe: The Ambiguous Relationships Between State‐owned Enterprises and the State
Liberalization and the introduction of sector‐specific regulators has caused the position of State‐owned enterprises (SOEs) of network industries to change not only within national economies, but also vis‐à‐vis their respective States. In response, many SOEs are pursuing ambiguous strategies, simultaneously seeking autonomy and State protection. In turn, States, particularly in their roles as owners and regulators, have to rethink their relations…
Introduction to the special issue on Network Industries in Turkey
The Earth Brokers: Power, Politics and World Development
Those of us who have watched the process have said that the Earth Summit has failed ... Multinational corporations, the United States, Japan, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund have got away with what they always wanted ... the Summit has ensured increased domination by those who already have power. Worse still, it has robbed the poor of the little power they had. It has made them victims of a market economy that has thus far threate…
Governance of competition and performance in European railways: An analysis of five cases
European air transport liberalization: Possible ways out of the single European sky gridlock
The Single European Sky gridlock: A difficult 10 year reform process
Special issue of Utilities Policy: “20 Years of liberalization in European network industries”
Environmental NGOs in World Politics
Towards a European Model of Regulatory Governance?
Multi-Governance of Water, The: Four Case Studies
Two Ways of Reasoning, One Outcome: The World Bank's Evolving Philosophy in Establishing a “Sustainable Water Resources Management” Policy
This article discusses the evolution of water resources management and policies since the early 1990s. Changes are due, in particular, to two international conferences both held in 1992 (Rio and Dublin), which laid the groundwork for an integrated approach to water management. Reformers concentrated on creating a coherent policy that would take into account environmental concerns. This paper focuses on the World Bank as one of the most important …
New Global Regulatory Mechanisms and the Environment: The Emerging Linkage between the WTO and the ISO
This article seeks to highlight the emerging linkage between the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO). This relationship is seen against a background of liberalisation, and more generally of profound changes in the structure of global governance. Indeed, after having promoted deregulation on a massive scale, the time seems to be ripe to reintroduce regulation, albeit in a new format. Standard…
La pensée comptable: État, néolibéralisme, nouvelle gestion publique
La profonde crise du modèle économique ont fortement remis en question le rôle de l’Etat dans la croissance économique et dans la régulation de la société. Il est devenu banal de constater la subordination de l’Etat à un marché devenu à la fois instrument d’allocation des ressources et étalon de mesure des politiques publiques. La « révolution conservatrice » a entraîné au Nord comme au Sud une attaque en règle contre l’Etat-providence et les adm…
The Earth Brokers: Power, Politics and World Development
Learning our way out: A conceptual framework for social-environmental learning
The global ecological crisis is the ultimate challenge to society's ability to learn. Traditional problem-solving approaches are inadequate to this challenge as they are based on the assumption that further development can solve the problems stemming from previous development programmes. This paper offers a rationale in support of these two propositions and proposes an alternative concept: social-environmental learning. An example of the actual a…
Adult education and society today
This article recalls adult education's dominant paradigm within the social context of its historical emergence. It then outlines the two most significant changes that have occurred since the 1970s in most highly industrialized societies. Indeed, many challenges face adult education today. The counterproductive effects that result when adult education continues to be practiced along its traditional paradigm will be examined. Finally, the article d…
From Knowledge to Action? Exploring the Relationships Between Environmental Experiences, Learning, and Behavior
On the basis of qualitative research and two surveys with 786 and 1004 Swiss respondents, this article presents a new “life‐world” approach to exploring the complex relationships between environmental experience, learning, and behavior. Contrary to traditional views, the author shows that environmental information, knowledge, and awareness predict little of the variability in most forms of environmental behavior. (The primary behaviors that infor…
Green politics in Switzerland: Environmental attitudes and political parties
This article1 highlights the main shortcomings of the current dominant theories of green politics and green parties. Using Switzerland as a critical case, it explores a different approach as green politics, seen as a result of different attitudes about ways and means to solve environmental problems. The article concludes with some theoretical ideas that would lend themselves to a more comprehensive theory of green politics
Integrating ‘new polities’ into ‘old polities: The Swiss party elite
This article offers a new approach to the important question of 'New Polities'. After discussing various interpretations of the phenomenon, it proposes a conceptualisation on the basis of empirical data drawn from a study of the Swiss party élite. These data show that a New Politics dimension can effectively be measured, and that the 'left‐right' axis can be considered to represent an almost perfect synthesis between 'Old' and 'New' politics
Learning our way out: A conceptual framework for social-environmental learning
The global ecological crisis is the ultimate challenge to society's ability to learn. Traditional problem-solving approaches are inadequate to this challenge as they are based on the assumption that further development can solve the problems stemming from previous development programmes. This paper offers a rationale in support of these two propositions and proposes an alternative concept: social-environmental learning. An example of the actual a…
Adult education and society today
This article recalls adult education's dominant paradigm within the social context of its historical emergence. It then outlines the two most significant changes that have occurred since the 1970s in most highly industrialized societies. Indeed, many challenges face adult education today. The counterproductive effects that result when adult education continues to be practiced along its traditional paradigm will be examined. Finally, the article d…
From Knowledge to Action? Exploring the Relationships Between Environmental Experiences, Learning, and Behavior
On the basis of qualitative research and two surveys with 786 and 1004 Swiss respondents, this article presents a new “life‐world” approach to exploring the complex relationships between environmental experience, learning, and behavior. Contrary to traditional views, the author shows that environmental information, knowledge, and awareness predict little of the variability in most forms of environmental behavior. (The primary behaviors that infor…
Integrating ‘new polities’ into ‘old polities: The Swiss party elite
This article offers a new approach to the important question of 'New Polities'. After discussing various interpretations of the phenomenon, it proposes a conceptualisation on the basis of empirical data drawn from a study of the Swiss party élite. These data show that a New Politics dimension can effectively be measured, and that the 'left‐right' axis can be considered to represent an almost perfect synthesis between 'Old' and 'New' politics
The “Global Arctic” as a New Geopolitical Context and Method
The term "GlobalArctic" was officially launched at the 2014 Arctic Circle Assembly (see: www.globalarctic.org). The idea for this term was not conceived in a vacuum; rather it was the outcome of a critical analysis on the state of Arctic geopolitics and security in the era of globalization with complex and deeply interdependent ecological, economic, environmental, cultural, political, and societal processes. It is important to note that global im…
Governance of competition and performance in European railways: An analysis of five cases
Green politics in Switzerland: Environmental attitudes and political parties
This article1 highlights the main shortcomings of the current dominant theories of green politics and green parties. Using Switzerland as a critical case, it explores a different approach as green politics, seen as a result of different attitudes about ways and means to solve environmental problems. The article concludes with some theoretical ideas that would lend themselves to a more comprehensive theory of green politics
Les dimensions de l'espace politique suisse et l'intégration de la « nouvelle politique écologique
Deux enquêtes réalisées auprès de l'élite partisane et de l'opinion publique, et qui portent sur les dimensions les plus importantes de l'espace politique suisse, montrent que l'opposition gauche-droite demeure, au sein de l'élite partisane, le clivage politique fondamental. L'originalité de ce phénomène tient au changement de signification de ce clivage, qui a désormais largement intégré, en Suisse, l'opposition relative à la « nouvelle politiqu…
A conceptual construct on value for infrastructure asset management
Understanding the meaning of value to asset-intensive organizations and their stakeholders has been a long-standing goal of researchers and managers of the asset management community. These issues have become particularly prominent with the publication of the ISO 5500x series of standards on asset management. These standards are intended to guide asset-intensive organizations of different types towards realising value from their asset base. Howev…
The Effect of European Integration on Swiss Energy Policy and Governance
The unique “Swiss way” of association with the European Union (EU) has received increasing attention in light of recent events such as Brexit as it is based on sectoral agreements without an overarching institutional framework. As such, Europeanization of Swiss domestic policy does not follow a straightforward process. We examine the external governance processes that drive the Europeanization of Swiss energy policy. Switzerland and the EU are hi…
Yes, No, Maybe: The Ambiguous Relationships Between State‐owned Enterprises and the State
Liberalization and the introduction of sector‐specific regulators has caused the position of State‐owned enterprises (SOEs) of network industries to change not only within national economies, but also vis‐à‐vis their respective States. In response, many SOEs are pursuing ambiguous strategies, simultaneously seeking autonomy and State protection. In turn, States, particularly in their roles as owners and regulators, have to rethink their relations…
The Single European Sky gridlock: A difficult 10 year reform process
New Global Regulatory Mechanisms and the Environment: The Emerging Linkage between the WTO and the ISO
This article seeks to highlight the emerging linkage between the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO). This relationship is seen against a background of liberalisation, and more generally of profound changes in the structure of global governance. Indeed, after having promoted deregulation on a massive scale, the time seems to be ripe to reintroduce regulation, albeit in a new format. Standard…
Strategic Objectives for State‐owned Enterprises as a Means to Mitigate Political Interference: An Empirical Analysis of Two Swiss State‐owned Enterprises
When governments act as owners of state‐owned enterprises (SOEs), they are both principal and agent at the same time. The literature on steering SOEs has mainly focused on the government as the principal that must control SOEs. However, the government is also an agent, vis‐à‐vis the parliament, because democratic constitutions stipulate some form of parliamentary oversight of the government. This oversight includes checks on how the government st…
European air transport liberalization: Possible ways out of the single European sky gridlock
Two Ways of Reasoning, One Outcome: The World Bank's Evolving Philosophy in Establishing a “Sustainable Water Resources Management” Policy
This article discusses the evolution of water resources management and policies since the early 1990s. Changes are due, in particular, to two international conferences both held in 1992 (Rio and Dublin), which laid the groundwork for an integrated approach to water management. Reformers concentrated on creating a coherent policy that would take into account environmental concerns. This paper focuses on the World Bank as one of the most important …
Integrating ‘new polities’ into ‘old polities: The Swiss party elite
This article offers a new approach to the important question of 'New Polities'. After discussing various interpretations of the phenomenon, it proposes a conceptualisation on the basis of empirical data drawn from a study of the Swiss party élite. These data show that a New Politics dimension can effectively be measured, and that the 'left‐right' axis can be considered to represent an almost perfect synthesis between 'Old' and 'New' politics
Les dimensions de l'espace politique suisse et l'intégration de la « nouvelle politique écologique
Deux enquêtes réalisées auprès de l'élite partisane et de l'opinion publique, et qui portent sur les dimensions les plus importantes de l'espace politique suisse, montrent que l'opposition gauche-droite demeure, au sein de l'élite partisane, le clivage politique fondamental. L'originalité de ce phénomène tient au changement de signification de ce clivage, qui a désormais largement intégré, en Suisse, l'opposition relative à la « nouvelle politiqu…
Green politics in Switzerland: Environmental attitudes and political parties
This article1 highlights the main shortcomings of the current dominant theories of green politics and green parties. Using Switzerland as a critical case, it explores a different approach as green politics, seen as a result of different attitudes about ways and means to solve environmental problems. The article concludes with some theoretical ideas that would lend themselves to a more comprehensive theory of green politics
From Knowledge to Action? Exploring the Relationships Between Environmental Experiences, Learning, and Behavior
On the basis of qualitative research and two surveys with 786 and 1004 Swiss respondents, this article presents a new “life‐world” approach to exploring the complex relationships between environmental experience, learning, and behavior. Contrary to traditional views, the author shows that environmental information, knowledge, and awareness predict little of the variability in most forms of environmental behavior. (The primary behaviors that infor…
Learning our way out: A conceptual framework for social-environmental learning
The global ecological crisis is the ultimate challenge to society's ability to learn. Traditional problem-solving approaches are inadequate to this challenge as they are based on the assumption that further development can solve the problems stemming from previous development programmes. This paper offers a rationale in support of these two propositions and proposes an alternative concept: social-environmental learning. An example of the actual a…
Adult education and society today
This article recalls adult education's dominant paradigm within the social context of its historical emergence. It then outlines the two most significant changes that have occurred since the 1970s in most highly industrialized societies. Indeed, many challenges face adult education today. The counterproductive effects that result when adult education continues to be practiced along its traditional paradigm will be examined. Finally, the article d…
The Earth Brokers: Power, Politics and World Development
La pensée comptable: État, néolibéralisme, nouvelle gestion publique
La profonde crise du modèle économique ont fortement remis en question le rôle de l’Etat dans la croissance économique et dans la régulation de la société. Il est devenu banal de constater la subordination de l’Etat à un marché devenu à la fois instrument d’allocation des ressources et étalon de mesure des politiques publiques. La « révolution conservatrice » a entraîné au Nord comme au Sud une attaque en règle contre l’Etat-providence et les adm…
New Global Regulatory Mechanisms and the Environment: The Emerging Linkage between the WTO and the ISO
This article seeks to highlight the emerging linkage between the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO). This relationship is seen against a background of liberalisation, and more generally of profound changes in the structure of global governance. Indeed, after having promoted deregulation on a massive scale, the time seems to be ripe to reintroduce regulation, albeit in a new format. Standard…
Two Ways of Reasoning, One Outcome: The World Bank's Evolving Philosophy in Establishing a “Sustainable Water Resources Management” Policy
This article discusses the evolution of water resources management and policies since the early 1990s. Changes are due, in particular, to two international conferences both held in 1992 (Rio and Dublin), which laid the groundwork for an integrated approach to water management. Reformers concentrated on creating a coherent policy that would take into account environmental concerns. This paper focuses on the World Bank as one of the most important …
Multi-Governance of Water, The: Four Case Studies
Towards a European Model of Regulatory Governance?
Environmental NGOs in World Politics
The Earth Brokers: Power, Politics and World Development
Those of us who have watched the process have said that the Earth Summit has failed ... Multinational corporations, the United States, Japan, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund have got away with what they always wanted ... the Summit has ensured increased domination by those who already have power. Worse still, it has robbed the poor of the little power they had. It has made them victims of a market economy that has thus far threate…
Governance of competition and performance in European railways: An analysis of five cases
European air transport liberalization: Possible ways out of the single European sky gridlock
The Single European Sky gridlock: A difficult 10 year reform process
Special issue of Utilities Policy: “20 Years of liberalization in European network industries”
Yes, No, Maybe: The Ambiguous Relationships Between State‐owned Enterprises and the State
Liberalization and the introduction of sector‐specific regulators has caused the position of State‐owned enterprises (SOEs) of network industries to change not only within national economies, but also vis‐à‐vis their respective States. In response, many SOEs are pursuing ambiguous strategies, simultaneously seeking autonomy and State protection. In turn, States, particularly in their roles as owners and regulators, have to rethink their relations…
Introduction to the special issue on Network Industries in Turkey
Utilities Policy special issue on Latin America
The “Global Arctic” as a New Geopolitical Context and Method
The term "GlobalArctic" was officially launched at the 2014 Arctic Circle Assembly (see: www.globalarctic.org). The idea for this term was not conceived in a vacuum; rather it was the outcome of a critical analysis on the state of Arctic geopolitics and security in the era of globalization with complex and deeply interdependent ecological, economic, environmental, cultural, political, and societal processes. It is important to note that global im…
Strategic Objectives for State‐owned Enterprises as a Means to Mitigate Political Interference: An Empirical Analysis of Two Swiss State‐owned Enterprises
When governments act as owners of state‐owned enterprises (SOEs), they are both principal and agent at the same time. The literature on steering SOEs has mainly focused on the government as the principal that must control SOEs. However, the government is also an agent, vis‐à‐vis the parliament, because democratic constitutions stipulate some form of parliamentary oversight of the government. This oversight includes checks on how the government st…
The GlobalArctic Handbook
The Effect of European Integration on Swiss Energy Policy and Governance
The unique “Swiss way” of association with the European Union (EU) has received increasing attention in light of recent events such as Brexit as it is based on sectoral agreements without an overarching institutional framework. As such, Europeanization of Swiss domestic policy does not follow a straightforward process. We examine the external governance processes that drive the Europeanization of Swiss energy policy. Switzerland and the EU are hi…
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