Marlene Kammerer
Biographic Data
| ID | 941672 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marlene Kammerer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marlene |
| FAMILY NAME | Kammerer |
| SIGNATURE | KAMMERER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6162-6793 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 66 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Hierarchy of Beliefs and Coordination
This article revolves around the hierarchy of beliefs and coordination. The Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) emphasises political actors’ role and their beliefs in public policymaking. As soon as actors share beliefs, they coordinate actions to affect policy outputs and outcomes decisively. Thus, according to the ACF, beliefs are a key driver of coordination, and manifold studies have tested this relationship. However, does coordination also af…
Hijacking or helping?—How political actors use the Covid-19 pandemic in the climate discourse to advocate their policy beliefs and preferences
Many of today’s challenges, such as climate change, war, or health crises, are highly interlinked and intertwined. Actors in the public discourse sometimes use the term “polycrisis” to describe this “causal entanglement of crises”. This article investigates whether this entanglement is visible in the media discourse and whether political actors strategically (mis-)use simultaneous and overlapping crises to influence policymaking in favor of their…
How Does Polycentric Engagement Relate to Countries’ NDC Ambition and Mitigation Policy Effort
Under the Paris Agreement, global climate governance has become decidedly more polycentric. However, it is still debated whether the turn toward greater polycentricity leads to more effectiveness in delivering public goods like climate change mitigation. This article argues that engagement in polycentric climate governance is linked to both more ambitious mitigation targets and stronger mitigation policy effort at the national level. Empirically,…
Climate Governance and Federalism
The majority of the world's largest carbon emitters are either federations or have adopted systems of decentralised governance. The realisation of the world's climate mitigation objectives therefore depends in large part on whether and how governments within federal systems can cooperate to reduce carbon emissions and catalyse the emergence of low-carbon societies. This volume brings together leading experts to explore whether federal or decentra…
Actors and issues in climate change policy
Policy discourses are important platforms for political actors to express their preferences on certain issues and are usually linked to a specific policy subsystem. From a research perspective, they have the potential to indicate ideological coalitions, policy change and learning. Using discourse network analysis, we identify core policy actors, issues, and coalitions in Switzerland’s climate policy discourse and investigate how they have evolved…
Conference of the Parties Meetings as Regularly Scheduled Critical Events for Global Climate Governance
In this commentary, we reflect on COP26, its outcomes, and the UNFCCC processes. While the value and results of COP meetings are often contested by researchers and activists, we highlight three areas that deserve more attention in post-COP assessments. First, the COP process creates an arena where state leaders, researchers, climate activists, and private actors regularly meet, which facilitates cooperation over time. Second, COP meetings are sit…
What drives local communities to engage in climate change mitigation activities? Examining the rural-urban divide
The National Climate Initiative (NKI) in Germany provides a strong incentive for local governments to apply for funding to engage in climate protection activities. Yet, the latest evaluation of the NKI confirms that there is a great disparity in the distribution of funding across regions. Taking this regional fragmentation as a starting point, we ask the following: How can we explain disparity in the amount of funding across counties and cities? …
Tackling climate change on the local level
Climate change, as one of the most pressing problems of our time, affects different levels of governance. At the international level, countries negotiate to find common ground on various topics related to climate change, but most importantly on how to share the burden of mitigating global warming and its effects on humankind. At the national level, national governments formulate greenhouse gas reduction (GHG) targets, set out climate change mitig…
What Explains Collaboration in High and Low Conflict Contexts? Comparing Climate Change Policy Networks in Four Countries
Explaining collaboration between actors involved in policy processes is crucial for understanding these processes and their outcomes. The policy science literature has advanced several hypotheses explicating what enables or hinders collaboration. However, only a handful of studies compare these factors across different policy contexts. This paper investigates the role of beliefs and influence in shaping collaboration under conditions of high and …
The Institutionalization of a Cleavage
Differential treatment is a key norm in multilateral environmental agreements. Its main objective is to increase compliance and reduce the free-rider problem by apportioning the costs and benefits of implementation more equitably across the parties in an agreement. The question of how to differentiate those burdens is inextricably linked to national interests, and while in some instances differential treatment is well designed and facilitates coo…
Are responses to official consultations and stakeholder surveys reliable guides to policy actors’ positions
Policy positions are used extensively to explain coalition formation, advocacy success and policy outputs, and government consultations and stakeholder surveys are seen as important means of gathering data about policy actors’ positions. However, we know little about how accurately official consultations and stakeholder surveys reflect their views. This study compares advocacy organisations’ publicly stated positions in their responses to officia…
What drives the adoption of climate change mitigation policy? A dynamic network approach to policy diffusion
What drives the adoption of climate change mitigation policy? A dynamic network approach to policy diffusion
What Explains Collaboration in High and Low Conflict Contexts? Comparing Climate Change Policy Networks in Four Countries
Explaining collaboration between actors involved in policy processes is crucial for understanding these processes and their outcomes. The policy science literature has advanced several hypotheses explicating what enables or hinders collaboration. However, only a handful of studies compare these factors across different policy contexts. This paper investigates the role of beliefs and influence in shaping collaboration under conditions of high and …
Are responses to official consultations and stakeholder surveys reliable guides to policy actors’ positions
Policy positions are used extensively to explain coalition formation, advocacy success and policy outputs, and government consultations and stakeholder surveys are seen as important means of gathering data about policy actors’ positions. However, we know little about how accurately official consultations and stakeholder surveys reflect their views. This study compares advocacy organisations’ publicly stated positions in their responses to officia…
What drives local communities to engage in climate change mitigation activities? Examining the rural-urban divide
The National Climate Initiative (NKI) in Germany provides a strong incentive for local governments to apply for funding to engage in climate protection activities. Yet, the latest evaluation of the NKI confirms that there is a great disparity in the distribution of funding across regions. Taking this regional fragmentation as a starting point, we ask the following: How can we explain disparity in the amount of funding across counties and cities? …
The Institutionalization of a Cleavage
Differential treatment is a key norm in multilateral environmental agreements. Its main objective is to increase compliance and reduce the free-rider problem by apportioning the costs and benefits of implementation more equitably across the parties in an agreement. The question of how to differentiate those burdens is inextricably linked to national interests, and while in some instances differential treatment is well designed and facilitates coo…
Conference of the Parties Meetings as Regularly Scheduled Critical Events for Global Climate Governance
In this commentary, we reflect on COP26, its outcomes, and the UNFCCC processes. While the value and results of COP meetings are often contested by researchers and activists, we highlight three areas that deserve more attention in post-COP assessments. First, the COP process creates an arena where state leaders, researchers, climate activists, and private actors regularly meet, which facilitates cooperation over time. Second, COP meetings are sit…
The Hierarchy of Beliefs and Coordination
This article revolves around the hierarchy of beliefs and coordination. The Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) emphasises political actors’ role and their beliefs in public policymaking. As soon as actors share beliefs, they coordinate actions to affect policy outputs and outcomes decisively. Thus, according to the ACF, beliefs are a key driver of coordination, and manifold studies have tested this relationship. However, does coordination also af…
Tackling climate change on the local level
Climate change, as one of the most pressing problems of our time, affects different levels of governance. At the international level, countries negotiate to find common ground on various topics related to climate change, but most importantly on how to share the burden of mitigating global warming and its effects on humankind. At the national level, national governments formulate greenhouse gas reduction (GHG) targets, set out climate change mitig…
What drives the adoption of climate change mitigation policy? A dynamic network approach to policy diffusion
Are responses to official consultations and stakeholder surveys reliable guides to policy actors’ positions
Policy positions are used extensively to explain coalition formation, advocacy success and policy outputs, and government consultations and stakeholder surveys are seen as important means of gathering data about policy actors’ positions. However, we know little about how accurately official consultations and stakeholder surveys reflect their views. This study compares advocacy organisations’ publicly stated positions in their responses to officia…
What Explains Collaboration in High and Low Conflict Contexts? Comparing Climate Change Policy Networks in Four Countries
Explaining collaboration between actors involved in policy processes is crucial for understanding these processes and their outcomes. The policy science literature has advanced several hypotheses explicating what enables or hinders collaboration. However, only a handful of studies compare these factors across different policy contexts. This paper investigates the role of beliefs and influence in shaping collaboration under conditions of high and …
The Institutionalization of a Cleavage
Differential treatment is a key norm in multilateral environmental agreements. Its main objective is to increase compliance and reduce the free-rider problem by apportioning the costs and benefits of implementation more equitably across the parties in an agreement. The question of how to differentiate those burdens is inextricably linked to national interests, and while in some instances differential treatment is well designed and facilitates coo…
Climate Governance and Federalism
The majority of the world's largest carbon emitters are either federations or have adopted systems of decentralised governance. The realisation of the world's climate mitigation objectives therefore depends in large part on whether and how governments within federal systems can cooperate to reduce carbon emissions and catalyse the emergence of low-carbon societies. This volume brings together leading experts to explore whether federal or decentra…
Actors and issues in climate change policy
Policy discourses are important platforms for political actors to express their preferences on certain issues and are usually linked to a specific policy subsystem. From a research perspective, they have the potential to indicate ideological coalitions, policy change and learning. Using discourse network analysis, we identify core policy actors, issues, and coalitions in Switzerland’s climate policy discourse and investigate how they have evolved…
Conference of the Parties Meetings as Regularly Scheduled Critical Events for Global Climate Governance
In this commentary, we reflect on COP26, its outcomes, and the UNFCCC processes. While the value and results of COP meetings are often contested by researchers and activists, we highlight three areas that deserve more attention in post-COP assessments. First, the COP process creates an arena where state leaders, researchers, climate activists, and private actors regularly meet, which facilitates cooperation over time. Second, COP meetings are sit…
What drives local communities to engage in climate change mitigation activities? Examining the rural-urban divide
The National Climate Initiative (NKI) in Germany provides a strong incentive for local governments to apply for funding to engage in climate protection activities. Yet, the latest evaluation of the NKI confirms that there is a great disparity in the distribution of funding across regions. Taking this regional fragmentation as a starting point, we ask the following: How can we explain disparity in the amount of funding across counties and cities? …
Tackling climate change on the local level
Climate change, as one of the most pressing problems of our time, affects different levels of governance. At the international level, countries negotiate to find common ground on various topics related to climate change, but most importantly on how to share the burden of mitigating global warming and its effects on humankind. At the national level, national governments formulate greenhouse gas reduction (GHG) targets, set out climate change mitig…
How Does Polycentric Engagement Relate to Countries’ NDC Ambition and Mitigation Policy Effort
Under the Paris Agreement, global climate governance has become decidedly more polycentric. However, it is still debated whether the turn toward greater polycentricity leads to more effectiveness in delivering public goods like climate change mitigation. This article argues that engagement in polycentric climate governance is linked to both more ambitious mitigation targets and stronger mitigation policy effort at the national level. Empirically,…
The Hierarchy of Beliefs and Coordination
This article revolves around the hierarchy of beliefs and coordination. The Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) emphasises political actors’ role and their beliefs in public policymaking. As soon as actors share beliefs, they coordinate actions to affect policy outputs and outcomes decisively. Thus, according to the ACF, beliefs are a key driver of coordination, and manifold studies have tested this relationship. However, does coordination also af…
Hijacking or helping?—How political actors use the Covid-19 pandemic in the climate discourse to advocate their policy beliefs and preferences
Many of today’s challenges, such as climate change, war, or health crises, are highly interlinked and intertwined. Actors in the public discourse sometimes use the term “polycrisis” to describe this “causal entanglement of crises”. This article investigates whether this entanglement is visible in the media discourse and whether political actors strategically (mis-)use simultaneous and overlapping crises to influence policymaking in favor of their…
Political science (10 works) · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (9 works) · Climate change (8 works) · Economics (8 works) · Policy Transfer and Learning (8 works) · Politics (6 works) · Climate Change Policy and Economics (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Climate governance (3 works)