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Sebastian Büttner

Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

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About

Sebastian Büttner (Ph.D., 2010, BIGSSS, Bremen) is lecturer at the Institute of Sociology, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, and, since April 2023, he is visiting professor in the field of macrosociology at University of Kassel, Germany. In his EU-related research activities, Sebastian Büttner is keen on developing and working out particularly sociological takes on Europe, the EU, and Europeanization. In an earlier work, he studied the institutional logics and societal effects of EU policy-making, esp. at the example of region-building in Central and Eastern Europe within the framework of EU Cohesion policy. Moreover, he also contributed to early debates on the transnationalization of European societies and the diffusion of European standards, logics, and practices of social development. Between 2012 and 2019 he was member of the research group "Horizontal Europeanization", which was funded by the German Science Foundation. In this context, he co-ordinated (together with Steffen Mau, HU Berlin) the project "EU-Professionalism. A Study on the Professionalization of EU-Expertise". Just recently, Sebastian Büttner co-edited the textbook "Sociology of Europeanization" (De Gruyter, 2022). The is the author of the book "Moblizing Regions, Mobilizing Europe" (Routledge, 2012) and co-authored, amongst others "A ‘New Spirit’ of Public Policy? The Project World of EU Funding" in European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology (2016) and “'Closer to the Market': EU Research Governance and Symbolic Power" in the Journal of Common Market Studies (2022).

Research Interests

Europe (Central and Eastern), Development, Elites, European Politics, European Union, Globalisation, Governance, Institutions, Integration, Public Administration, Regionalism, Knowledge, Political Sociology, Constructivism, Critical Theory, Global, Identity, Post-Modernism, Post-Structuralism, Qualitative Comparative Analysis, Qualitative, Memory, Solidarity, Political Cultures, Theoretical, Youth

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