Doris Fuchs (born 1966

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) is a German

Political Scientist Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and Power (social and political), power, and the analysis of political activities, political philosophy, political thought, polit ...

and Professor of

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and

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at the

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. Fuchs received her Ph.D. in Political Science & Economics at

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in California and completed her

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at the University of Munich. She was a lecturer and researcher at the

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, the

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, the

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as well as the

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Research interests

Fuchs’ main research interests lie in the areas of sustainable development and international political economy. She specializes in conceptual topics such as power (especially structural and discursive power), sustainable consumption and financialization. Empirically, she focuses on environmental, energy, and agrifood policy, in particular. One of her central research interests is the political influence of non-state, especially economic, actors on

ecological Ecology () is the natural science of the relationships among living organisms and their environment. Ecology considers organisms at the individual, population, community, ecosystem, and biosphere levels. Ecology overlaps with the closely re ...

and social sustainability, in multi-level governance.

Selected publications

* Fuchs, Doris, Richard Meyer-Eppler, and Ulrich Hamenstädt. 2013. "Food for Thought: The Politics of Financialization in the Global Agrifood System”. ''Competition & Change'' 17(3): 219-233. * Fuchs, Doris, Agni Kalfagianni, Jennifer Clapp, and Lawrence Busch. 2011. "Private Agrifood Governance. Values, Shortcoming and Strategies“. ''Agriculture and Human Values'' 28 (3): 335-344. * Clapp, Jennifer, and Doris Fuchs (Eds.). 2009. ''Corporate Power in Global Agrifood Governance. Challenges and Strategies''. Boston: MIT Press. * Fuchs, Doris. 2007. ''Business Power in Global Governance''. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers.Reviews of ''Business Power in Global Governance'': * * * Fuchs, Doris, and Sylvia Lorek. 2005. "Sustainable Consumption Governance. A History of Promises and Failures“. ''Journal of Consumer Policy'' 28 (3): 261–288. Reprinted in Dauvergne, Peter (Ed.). 2013. Environmental Politics. Houndmills: Edward Elgar, 652-679.

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