Karin Ingold - Selected Publications#

Hofmann, B; Ingold, K; Stamm, C; Ammann, P; Eggen, R; Finger, R; Fuhrimann, S; Lienert, J; Mark, J; McCallum, C; Probst-Hensch, N; Reber, U; Tamm, L; Wiget, M; Winkler, M; Zachmann, L; Hoffmann, S (2023). Barriers to evidence use for sustainability: Insights from pesticide policy and practice. Ambio, 52, 425–439. DOI: 10.1007/s13280-022-01790-4.

This paper challenges the "knowledge deficit" model that sustainability measures can be promoted through more and better research. Rather the paper argues that diverse actor motivations pose key barriers to the transformative impact of evidence and proposes context-specific research-policy-practice measures to increase evidence use.

Nohrstedt, D; Ingold, K; Weible, CM; Koebele, E A; Olofsson, KL; Satoh, K; Jenkins-Smith, H C(2023). The Advocacy Coalition Framework: Progress and Emerging Areas. In: Weible, C. M. (ed.), Theories Of The Policy Process (5th ed.). New York: Routledge, 130-160. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003308201. The authors provide a critical overview of the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF), including its assumptions and theories of advocacy coalitions, policy-oriented learning, and policy change. On the basis of empirical applications spanning the globe on various topics, the authors identify emerging areas ripe for continued development.

Kammerer, M; Ingold, K (2023). Actors and issues in climate change policy: the maturation of a policy discourse in the national and international context. Social Networks. DOI: 10.1016/j.socnet.2021.08.005. Using discourse network analysis, the authors show that policy discourses are more volatile than policy subsystems, and that national and international policy developments are able to trigger change, particularly in terms of the configuration of actor coalitions and the issues discussed.

Ingold, K (2022). Studying EU politics through the ACF—key challenges. In: Graziano, P. R.; Tosun, J. (eds.), Elgar Encyclopedia of European Union Public Policy. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 567–574. DOI: 10.4337/9781800881112.ch58. Despite the complexities of EU policies and institutions, the author is able to conclude that the advocacy coalition framework (ACF) can be usefully applied in this context.

Ingold, K; Christopoulos, D; Fischer, M (2022). Resilience in political networks. In: Lazega, E; Snijders, T AB; & Wittek R PM (eds.), A research agenda for social networks and social resilience. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 115-130. Using selected case studies and empirical examples supported by theoretical analysis, the authors conclude that network measures and models can capture the reaction of a political network to a shock, thus allowing the operationalization of the level of resilience of such a system

Ingold, K; Cairney, P (2022). The politics of public administration in policy-making. In: Ladner, A; Fritz, S (eds.), Handbook on the politics of public administration. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 211-220. DOI: 10.4337/9781839109447.00026. The authors provide an insightful review of the role of public administration in public policy-making in the context of larger governance arrangements.

Ingold, K; Fischer, M; Christopoulos, D (2021). The roles actors play in policy networks: central positions in strongly institutionalized fields. Network Science, 9(2), 213-235. DOI: 10.1017/nws.2021.1. Using a longitudinal perspective, the authors show that very few actors are able to maintain central positions over time in the highly institutionalized context of policy networks.

Weible, C M; Nohrstedt, D; Cairney, P; Carter, PD; Crow, DA; Durnová, AP; Heikkila, T; Ingold, K; McConnell, A; Stone, D (2020). COVID 19 and the policy sciences: initial reactions and perspectives. Policy Sciences, 53, 225-241, DOI: 10.1007/s11077-020-09381-4. This paper (cited 310 times in the Web of Science Core Collection) examines how scientific and technical expertise, emotions, and narratives influence policy decisions and shape relationships among citizens, organizations, and governments.

Herzog, L; Ingold, K (2019). Threat to common-pool resources and the importance of forums: on the emergence of cooperation in CPR problem settings. Policy Studies Journal, 47(1), 77-113. DOI: 10.1111/psj.12308. Using survey data and advanced network statistics, the authors show that participation in forums is a key factor promoting cooperation in the setting of common pool resources in addition to the more widely recognized factor of problem exposure.

Ingold, K; Driessen, P; Runhaar, H; Widmer, A (2019). On the necessity of connectivity: linking key characteristics of environmental problems with governance modes. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 62(11), 1821-1844. https://doi.org/10.1080/09640568.2018.1486700. The authors use an in-depth literature review to identify three key problem characteristics and six governance modes for environmental problems. They then use empirical illustrations to demonstrate the relevance of linking governance modes to these characteristics via the 'connectivity', which links actors, issues, sectors and scale levels, in order to realize effective policy solutions for complex environmental problems.