Raffael Himmelsbach

• PhD
• Research group co-director at Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft

Background Demographic change and the rise of diabetes mellitus are leading to a projected increase in the prevalence of chronic wounds. People suffering from chronic wounds experience significant losses in their health-related quality of life. Health systems struggle to meet the needs of these persons, even in high-income countries. This paper exp...

Dieses Kapitel bietet eine Übersicht zur Politikberatung in der Schweiz. Einleitend wird dargestellt, wie sich wichtige Institutionen des politischen Systems, wie die direkte Demokratie und die liberal-föderale Staatsstruktur, auf Beratungsbeziehungen auswirken. Danach widmet sich das Kapitel den einzelnen Beratungsinstrumenten und geht auf deren F...

This study contributes to a growing body of research that studies how different societal actors view climate engineering (CE) in an effort to ‘open up’ received framings and make them amenable to deliberations. CE is an umbrella term for different proposals of how to counteract global warming with technological means, some of which have sparked con...

This thesis concerns the role of scientific expertise in the decision-making process at the Swiss fed- eral level of government. It aims to understand how institutional and issue-specific factors influence three things: the distribution of access to scientific expertise, its valuation by participants in policy for- mulation, and the consequence(s)...