Fellows

• Political Science

• M.A. in Political Science (2004, University of Leipzig, Germany)

• New forms of EU environmental governance, institutionalisation of public participation in the EU and the United States
• Adaptive and participatory natural resources management
• Europeanisation and EU policy implementation
• Effectiveness of deliberative environmental decision making, influencing factors on outcomes of public participation in eco-politics

• Researcher, Institute of Environmental Systems Research, University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany, Project: „The Effectiveness of Public Participation in Environmental Decision-making”, supervised by Dr. Jens Newig
• PR trainee and junior consultant, Berlin

• Newig, Jens & Fritsch, Oliver (2009) “Environmental Governance: Participatory, Multi-Level - And Effective?”, Environmental Policy and Governance 19(3): 197-214
• Newig, Jens & Fritsch, Oliver (forthcoming) “Ökologische Nachhaltigkeit durch zivilgesellschaftliche Partizipation? Zum Stand der Debatte in der internationalen Literatur (Ecological Sustainability through Civil-Societal Participation? Reviewing the State of the Art)“, in: Handler, Martina & Trattnigg, Rita (eds.) Zukunft der Öffentlichkeitsbeteiligung (The Future of Public Participation) (in print)
• Fritsch, Oliver & Newig, Jens (forthcoming) “Participatory Governance and Sustainability. Findings of a Meta-Analysis of Stakeholder Involvement in Environmental Decision-Making”, in: Brousseau, Eric, Dedeurwaerdere, Tom & Siebenhüner, Bernd (eds.) Reflexive Governance for Global Public Goods, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press (in print)
• Fisher, Dana, Fritsch, Oliver & Andersen, Mikael Skou (2009) “Transformations in Environmental Governance and Participation”, in: Mol, Arthur P. J., Sonnenfeld, David A. & Spaargaren, Gert (eds.) The Ecological Modernization Reader. Environmental Reform in The-ory and Practice, London / New York: Routledge: 141-155 (available both as paperback and hardcover edition)
• Newig, Jens & Fritsch, Oliver (2009) “More Input - Better Output: Does Citizen Involvement Improve the Quality, Legitimacy and Implementability of Environmental Policy?”, in: Blühdorn, Ingolfur (ed.) In Search of Legitimacy. Policy Making in Europe and the Challenge of Complexity, Opladen: Budrich: 205-224
• Newig, Jens & Fritsch, Oliver (2008) “Der Beitrag zivilgesellschaftlicher Partizipation zur Effektivitätssteigerung von Governance. Eine Analyse umweltpolitischer Beteiligungsverfahren im transatlantischen Vergleich (The Contribution of Civil Society Participation to Enhanc-ing Governance Effectiveness. A Transatlantic Comparison of Envi-ronmental Participatory Decision Making)”, in: Bode, Ingo, Evers, Adalbert & Klein, Ansgar (eds.) Bürgergesellschaft als Projekt. Eine Bestandsaufnahme zu Entwicklung und Förderung zivilgesellschaftlicher Potenziale in Deutschland (Civil Society as a Project. Taking Stock of Civil-Societal Potentials in Germany), Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften: 214-239

Summary

Oliver is an Early Stage Researcher at the University of Aarhus, National Environmental Research Institute, Department of Policy Analysis. In his research he focuses on national policy styles in the EU and how they affect the implementation of the Water Framework Directive in different member states. A political scientist by training, Oliver's field of expertise lies in EU policy implementation and public participation in environmental governance, but he also has a background in green political thought and democratic theory.

Oliver holds a M.A. in Political Science (2004, University of Leipzig, Germany) and he also spent a year at Stockholm University, Sweden as an undergraduate exchange student. In his Master's thesis, Oliver analysed Turkey's implementation of minority rights in national politics as a precondition for EU accession. After graduation, Oliver gathered extensive expertise in political communication and worked for two years in public affairs consultancies with a focus on environmental issues. Furthermore, Oliver designed for more than seven years webpages in an Icelandic music context.

Before joining GoverNat, Oliver worked for 18 months as a junior researcher at the Institute of Environmental Systems Research, University of Osnabrück, Germany. He was involved in a project that tried to uncover the potential of environmental public participation to improve the quality of policy decisions and their implementation, based on a meta-analysis of case studies. Prior to and during his Ph.D. research Oliver was a visiting fellow at the School of Politics, International Relations and the Environment, Keele University, and the Centre of European Governance, University of Exeter.