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Jonas Fischer

@jonasfischer.bsky.social

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Postdoc at SOCIUM, University of Bremen | DPhil (2026) Blavatnik School of Government & Nuffield College, University of Oxford | political economy, climate politics, business politics | he/him jonas-fischer.de

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Jonas Fischer @jonasfischer.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Some professional news: I submitted my thesis! 🥳

Title page of an Oxford DPhil thesis, titled: Asset Repurposing in the Green Transition: How Polluting Firms Can Become Climate Policy Supporters.

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Jonas Fischer @jonasfischer.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

In an unprecedented move, Manfred Weber (EPP) announced yesterday night to German tabloid BILD that the 2035 CO2 targets for cars and vans (the combustion engine phaseout) would be weakened.

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Jonas Fischer @jonasfischer.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

We leverage this exogenous variation in voting costs to test irregularities’ impact on turnout in a DiD design. The increased waiting times, although small and unexpected, suppressed turnout by *0.73 pp.* in the affected voting districts (most conservative estimate). [4/5]

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Jonas Fischer @jonasfischer.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Sunk cost fallacy makes effects unlikely. We look at the 2021 federal election in Berlin, where – thanks to a coincidence of administrative mistakes – in 14% of voting districts long queues formed in front of polling stations, some of which even had to close for a while. [3/5]

Map of Berlin's 2,257 voting districts, those with election irregularities highlighted.

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Jonas Fischer @jonasfischer.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

I’m happy to see this short paper with @fluegeldo.bsky.social on unexpected hikes in voting costs out in @thejop.bsky.social ! doi.org/10.1086/739405 [1/5]

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Jonas Fischer @jonasfischer.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Why do chameleons turn green? I argue that they turn green in the hope their repurposed assets provide a competitive advantage in emerging green markets. Manufacturers’ policy positions are not a direct function of their market positions.

Scatterplot of manufacturers' market and political position.

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Jonas Fischer @jonasfischer.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Why did some car manufacturers support the phaseout while others resisted it? And why did parts suppliers stand united in their opposition? I introduce asset specificity as a second dimension besides emissions intensity determining businesses’ political and economic behavior.

Two-dimensional space of asset specificity and emissions intensity with a business typology of green, brown, and chameleon industries.

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Jonas Fischer @jonasfischer.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

New Working Paper! I present findings from my first PhD case study on the auto sector’s engagement with the EU phaseout of the internal combustion engine. doi.org/10.31219/osf...

Title page of the working paper, including abstract and keywords.

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Jonas Fischer @jonasfischer.bsky.social · 22/08/2024

We argue that understanding climate politics as a two-dimensional conflict space is crucial, as climate policies and climate change itself can create winners and losers independently of one another. 4/6

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Jonas Fischer @jonasfischer.bsky.social · 02/10/2023

I am excited to announce that I have joined Nuffield College and Blavatnik School of Government in pursuit of my PhD.

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