March

Climate change is a very contested topic, which is also used in populist rhetoric. In their paper published in Climate Policy, the authors Robert A. Huber, Lukas Fesenfeld and Thomas Bernauer investigate whether populism truly has an independent effect on people’s climate attitudes. Furthermore, they assess to what extent frames about elite responsiveness are important heuristics for individuals in their formation of preferences concerning climate policies.

A new study examines how potentially effective policy instruments may be designed and combined so as to reduce public backlash and ensure political feasibility of transforming the food system. The article on food system transformation by IR PhD Candidate Lukas Paul Fesenfeld, Postdoctoral Researcher Michael Wicki, Dr. Yixian Sun from the University of Bath, and Prof. Thomas Bernauer was published in Nature Food.

A recent article on shared autonomous vehicles (AVs) by Michael Wicki, Sergio Guidon, Felix Becker, ETH Zurich Prof. Dr. Thomas Bernauer and Prof. Dr. Kay Axhausen was published in Research in Transportation Business & Management.