Tamaki Ohmura

Environmental policy, forest policy, trade-offs between uses of natural resources, challenges in natural resource management, acceptability of policy change, interdisciplinary research and social science research methods

Education and professional positions

2023 - present	Lecturer for Biodiversity, Environment and Human Society, University of Zurich, Switzerland
2021 - 2023	Postdoctoral researcher and lecturer, Natural Resource Policy Group (NARP), ETH Zurich
2021 - 2023	Scientific staff member, Environmental and Resource Economics, Swiss Federal Institute of Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL)
2018 - 2021	Postdoctoral researcher, Environmental and Resource Economics, Swiss Federal Institute of Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL)
2015 - 2017	Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Political Science, University of Basel
2014	Visiting scholar, Department of Political Science, University of San Diego
2011 - 2015	Ph.D. in Political Science, Center for Comparative and International Studies, ETH Zurich
2009 - 2015	Research and teaching assistant, Center for Comparative and International Studies, ETH Zurich
2008 - 2009	Research assistant and tutor, Department of Political Science, University of Zurich
2003 - 2011	Degree lic. phil. in Political Science, Economics, and Economic and Social History, University of Zurich

• Schulz T., Ohmura T., Astrid Z. Sustainable economy trade-offs and conflicts in and with the forest - Research Trend (2023). Forest Policy and Economics, Volume 150, 102936. DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2023.102936
• Ohmura T., Bailer S. (2023). Power-seeking, Networking, and Competition: Why Women do not rise in Parties. West European Politics. 46(5), 897-927. DOI: 10.1080/01402382.2022.2097442
• Ohmura T., Willumsen D. (2023). Free Votes and the Analysis of Recorded votes: Evidence from Germany (1949-2021). West European Politics, 46(6), 1205-1221. DOI: 10.1080/01402382.2022.2114651
• Ohmura T., Creutzburg L. (2021). Guarding the For(es)t: Sustainable economy conflicts and stakeholder preference of policy instruments. Forest Policy and Economics, Volume 131, 102553. DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2021.102553
• Sieberer U., Ohmura T. (2021). Mandate type, electoral safety, and defections from the party line. The conditional mandate divide in the German Bundestag, 1949-2013, Party Politics 27(4): 704-715. DOI: 10.1177/1354068819881637
• Creutzburg L., Ohmura T., Lieberherr E. (2020). A gift programme for sustainable forest management? A Swiss perspective on public policies and property rights, Geographica Helvetica, 75, 69–80. DOI: 10.5194/gh-75-69-2020
• Sieberer U., Saalfeld T., Ohmura T., Bergmann H., Bailer S. (2020). Roll-Call Votes in the German Bundestag: A New Dataset, 1949–2013, British Journal of Political Science, 50(3), 1137-1145. DOI: 10.1017/S0007123418000406
• Bailer S., Ohmura T. (2018). Exploring, Maintaining, and Disengaging: On the three phases in a legislator’s life, Legislative Studies Quarterly, 43(3), 493-520. DOI: 10.1111/lsq.12192
• Ohmura T., Bailer S., Meissner P., Selb P. (2018). Party Animals, Career Changers and other Pathways into Parliament, West European Politics, 41(1), 169-195. DOI: 10.1080/01402382.2017.1323485