Alex is professor of sociology with a special interest in political sociology, environmental sociology and the sociology of knowldge. In September 2022 he became the new director of the Centre for Digital Transformation (CeDiT). Before he joined UiA in 2018 in October 2018 Alex was a temporary Professor for Sociology and Social Structure Analysis and scientific head of the Center for Political Communication at Zeppelin University (Friedrichshafen, Germany). He holds a PhD in Sociology from the Max-Weber-Institute of Sociology at Heidelberg University and was a Dahrendorf Postdoctoral Fellow at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, the London School of Economics and Political Sciences and a visiting fellow at Punjab University, Chandigarh. Curreent research projects focus on the role of „science in society”, the social & political role of think tanks, the impact of scientific expertise on climate politics and climate change sceptcism. Alex is interested in theories of knowldge, relational sociology and social network analysis. He is an active member of international research networks on „the social philosophy of science” and is an affilated member of the Centre for Global Knowledge Studies (GLOKNOS) at Cambridge University
Political Sociology
Environmental Sociology & European Climate Politics
Sociology of Knowledge & Philosophy of Science
Sociology of Knowledge
Social Network Analysis
Digitalisation
SV 135-1 Sociology of Welfare & Equality
SV 209-1 Contemporary Sociological Theory
2017-2018: Temp Professor of Sociology and Social Structure Analysis, Head of the Center of Political Communication, Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen Germany
2017-2019: Research Fellow, Open Innovation in Science Research Center Vienna, Austria
2016 Visiting Fellow, Punjab University, Chandigarh, India
2016 Research Fellow, German Research Institute for Public Administration, Speyer, Germany
2014-2017: Research Fellow, temp. Professor Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen, Germany
2013-2014: Dahrendorf Fellow, Hertie School of Governance, Berlin & London School of Economics and Political Sciences
2011-2013 Postdoctoral Fellow, Global Institutional Development Research Group, Max Weber Institut of Sociology, University of Heidelberg, Germany
2011 Ph.D Comparative Pension Politics, Max Weber Institute of Sociology, University of Heidelberg, Germany
2008-2013 Policy Officer/ Subject Specialist, State Institute for Civic Education Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart, Germany
Political Sociology, Social Inequality and the role of "Expertise" in social, economic and environmental politics
Social Transformation
Think Tanks & Political Communication
Climate Politics, Climate Scepticism
Science in Society
DIGIT: Norwegian Research School on Digitalization, Culture and Society: https://www.digitresearchschool.no
Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence “Laboratories of Differentiated Integration in a Post-Brexit Europe“ https://jm-excellence.uia.no/about/
Peer Reviewed Articles
Ruser, Alexander (2023) Theories of the Nonprofit Sector, Sociological. In: R. List, H. Anheier, S. Toepler (eds) International Encyclopedia of Civil Society. Springer
Ruser, Alexander (2023) Undeserving and Dangerous: The Construction of Outsiders and the Return of the Third Way in Green Welfare State Debates. Politiche Sociali 1/2023: 63-80, https://doi.org/10.7389/107139
Ruser, Alexander (2022) En finir avec le consensus climatique : le rôle des think tanks dans l’émergence tardive du réseau climatosceptique en Allemagne Politique et Sociétés 41(3): 105-127, https://doi.org/10.7202/1089851ar
Ruser, Alexander (2020) Radikale Konformität und konforme Radikalität? Fridays for Future und Ende Gelände. Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen. 33(4): 801-814, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/fjsb-2020-0071
Ruser, Alexander (2020). A Mission for MARS: The Success of Climate Change Skeptic Rhetoric in the US. Res Rhetorica. ISSN: 2392-3113. 7 (2). s 48 - 63. doi:https://doi.org/10.29107/rr2020.2.4.
Ruser, Alexander: Die "Wirklichkeit" von Traditionen. Eine soziologische Betrachtung zwischen Sozialkonstruktivismus und Sozialontologie, Trumah, 2018; Jg. 24 (1): 7-26.
Ruser, Alexander: What to think about think tanks? Towards a conceptual framework of strategic think tank behavior , International Journal of Politic, Culture and Society, 2018 (1): 1-14: http://10.1007/s10767-018-9278-x.
Ruser, Alexander: Mapping Knowledge and Denial: Outline of a Cross-country Analysis of the Impact of Environmental Think Tanks on Climate Politics and Climate Skepticism, Research Journal Social Science, 2016; Jg. 24 (3): 52-69.
Ruser, Alexander, Stehr, Nico: Social scientists as technicians, advisors and meaning producers, Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research,, 2016 (0): 1-12: http://10.1080/13511610.2016.1207505.
Ruser, Alexander: Towards the Unity of Science Again? Reductionist Thinking and its consequences for a Social Philosophy of Science, Epistemology and Philosophy of Science, 2016 (49) Suppl. 3: 55-69.
Ruser, Alexander: By the Markets, of the Markets, for the Markets? Technocratic Decision Making and the Hollowing out of Democracy, Global Policy, 2015; Jg. 2015 (6) Suppl. 1: 83-92: http://10.1111/1758-5899.12231.
Ruser, Alexander: Perspectives of and Challenges for a Social Philosophy of Science: Highlighting the Challenge, Epistemology and Philosophy of Science, 2015; Jg. 2015 (3): 54-64.
Ruser, Alexander: Sociological quasi-labs: The case for deductive scenario development, Current Sociology, 2015; Jg. 2015 (63) Suppl. 2: 170-181: http://DOI:0.1177/0011392114556581.
Ruser, Alexander, Anheier, Helmut K: The EU's Future Role on the Global Stage, Global Policy, 2014 (5) Suppl. 1: 58-67: http://DOI: 10.1111/1758-5899.12146.
Ruser, Alexander, Hölscher, Michael, Falkenhein, Mariella: Twinning Peaks - Potential and Limits of an Evolving Network in Shaping Europe as a Social Space, Journal of Civil Society, 2012; Jg. 8 (3): 229-250.
Ruser, Alexander: Aufstiegshoffnungen und Abstiegsängste. Sozialer Wandel und politische Beteiligung in Europa., Deutschland und Europa, 2011 (62): 62-69.
Other Articles
Ruser, Alexander: The EU’s new economic governance is blurring the boundaries between European competences and domestic sovereignty, EUROPP European Politics and Policy at LSE, 2014 (online): 1 (download: http://bit.ly/1nlKKcv) .
Ruser, Alexander, Anheier, Helmut K: The affordability of climate protection, European Voice, 2013 (1): 0-0 (download: http://www.politico.eu/article/the-affordability-of- climate-protection/)
Monographs
Ruser, Alexander: Climate Politics and the Impact of Think Tanks: Scientific Expertise in Germany and the US, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Ruser, Alexander, Machin, Amanda: Against Political Compromise: Sustaining Democratic Debate, New York, London, Routledge, 2017.
Ruser, Alexander: Der Markt als Mitte(l) - Reformprozess und Diskurse der Alterssicherung in Deutschland und Großbritannien, Wiesbaden, VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 1. Auflage, 2011.
Book Chapters
Ruser, Alexander (2021) Widening the gap: US think tanks and the manufactured chasm between scientific expertise and common sense on climate change. in: Julien Landry (ed.) Critical Perspectives on Think Tanks. Power, Politics and Knowledge. Edward Elgar, 195-214
Ruser Alexander (2021) Kopfarbeit für die Gesellschaft oder die „Gesellschaft im Kopf“. Klimaexperten, Klimaleugner und die Aktualität der Heidelberger Kontroverse um die gesellschaftliche Rolle von Wissenschaft. In: Bachmann U., Schwinn T. (eds). Theorie als Beruf. Studien zum Weber-Paradigma. Springer VS, Wiesbaden pp:123-141
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-32000-3_7
Ruser, Alexander,, Stehr, Nico: Climate Change, Governance and Knowledge, in: Theresa Scavenius, Steve Rayner (Hrsg.): Institutional Capacity for Climate Change Response: A new approach to climate politics, London, New York, Routledge, 2018: 15-30.
Ruser, Alexander: Experts and Science and Politics, in: William Outhwaite andStephen P. Turner (Hrsg.): The SAGE Handbook of Political Sociology, Los Angeles, SAGE, 2018: 767-780.
Ruser, Alexander: Nico Stehr, Sociology, Knowledge and the Sociology of Knowledge: An Introduction, in: Marian Adolf (Hrsg.): Nico Stehr: Pioneer in the Theory of Society and Knowledg, Heidelberg, Springer, 2018: 7-15.
Ruser, Alexander: Der (in)diskrete Charme der Technokratie. Wirtschaftskrisen, Staatskrisen und die Entdemokratisierung von Entscheidungsstrukturen, in: Maren Lehmann, Marcel Tyrell (Hrsg.): Komplexe Freiheit. Wie ist Demokratie möglich?, Wiesbaden, Springer VS, 2017: 203-218.
Ruser, Alexander: Die Revolution ist abgesagt! Die Bedeutung der Beratungslogik für wissenschaftsinternen Wandel am Beispiel des neoklassischen Paradigma in den Wirtschaftswissenschaften, in: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie (Hrsg.): Geschlossene Gesellschaften - Verhandlungen des 38. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie, Essen, DGS, 2017: 1-7.
Stehr, Nico, Ruser, Alexander: Knowledge Society, Knowledge Economy and Knowledge Democracy, in: Elias G. Carayannis, David F. J. Campbell, Marios Panagiotis Efthymiopoulos (Hrsg.): Handbook of Cyber-Development, Cyber-Democracy, and Cyber- Defense, Heidelberg, Springer, 2017
Ruser, Alexander, Machin, Amanda: Technology can't save us, can it? The Emergence of the 'Techno-Fix' Narrative in Climate Politics, in: Montenegrin Academy of Science and Art (Hrsg.): Proceedings of the International Conference "Technology+Society= Future?", Podgorica, Montenegrin Academy of Science and Art, 2016: 437-447.
Ruser, Alexander: Knowledge- driven politics or politically motivated knowledge distribution? The influence of environmental think tanks on national climate politics Evidence from Germany, in: Montenegrin Academy of Science and Art (Hrsg.): Transition to a New Society - Conference Proceedings, Podgorica, 2014: ?-?
Ruser, Alexander: Knowledge-driven politics or politically motivated knowledge distribution? The influence of environmental think tanks on national climate politics: Evidence from Germany, in: Momir Đurović (Hrsg.): TRANSITION TO A NEW SOCIETY, Podgorica, 2014: 179-189 (Scientific Meetings Volume 124).
Ruser, Alexander: Environmental Think Tanks in Japan and South Korea: Trailblazers or Vicarious Agents?, in: Meinert, Carmen (Hrsg.): Nature, Environment and Culture in East Asia: The Challenge of Climate Change, Leiden Boston, Brill, 2013: 319- 352 (Climate and Culture).
Ruser, Alexander: 예상했던 놀라움: ‘독일문제’의 역사적 발전이 ‘즉흥적 통일’ 및 사회통합 에 미친 영향 (Die erhoffte Überraschung: Historische Entwicklung der „deutschen Frage“ und ihr Einfluss auf die „improvisierte Einheit“ und gesellschaftliche Integration) , in: Korean Civic Education Institute for Democracy (Hrsg.): Civic Education for Integration of Korean Peninsula, Seoul South Korea, 2013: 89-145.
Ruser, Alexander, Kern, Thomas: The Role of Think Tanks in the Discourse on East Asia, in: Rüdiger, Frank, Hoare, James E., Köllner, Patrick and Pares, Susan (Hrsg.): Korea 2010. Politics, Economy and Society, Leiden Boston, Brill, 2010: 113-134.
Ruser, Alexander, Hornung, Klaus: Das Phänomen Rollenspiel, in: Bühl, Achim (Hrsg.): Auf der Suche nach der Muße. Empirische Untersuchungen zum Freizeitverhalten, Münster, LIT, 2004: 267-312 (Studien zur empirischen Sozialforschung Band 2).
Encyclopedia Entries
Ruser, Alexander: Ignorance, in: Bryan S. Turner (Hrsg.): The Encyclopedia of Social Theory, West Sussex, Wiley Blackwell, 2017
Ruser, Alexander: Greenhouse Gases, in: Helmut Anheier & Mark Jürgensmeier (Hrsg.): Encyclopedia of Global Studies, Thousand Oaks, Sage, 2012: 774-775.
Teaching Materials
Ruser, Alexander, Christ Stefanie, Nepple,, Björn, Geyer, Robby: Festung Europa? Asyl- und Flüchtlingspolitik in der EU. 3. Auflage, PLANSPIELE, 2016.
Ruser, Alexander: Festung Europa? Asyl und Flüchtlingspolitik in der EU. 2. Auflage, Reihe PLANSPIELE, 2015.
Ruser, Alexander: Streik! Arbeitskampf in der ABC AG. Ein Planspiel zu Interessenkonflikt und Sozialpartnerschaft. 2. Auflage, Landeszentrale für Politische Bildung BW, Stuttgart, 2015.
Ruser, Alexander: Festung Europa? Asyl- und Flüchtlingspolitik in der EU, Reihe PLANSPIELE, 2014.
RUSER, ALEXANDER, NEPPLE, BJÖRN,, ANGER, MICHAEL, MEITNER, ANJA, RIECKE,, CLARA, FÖRTSCH, JONAS: Staats- und Eurokrise. Aktuelle Methoden zum Verhältnis von Politik und Wirtschaft, BAUSTEINE, 2013.
Ruser, Alexander: Streik! Rollenspiel zu Interessenkonflikt und Sozialpartnerschaft, PLANSPIELE, 2013.
RUSER, ALEXANDER, JOHANNA BETHGE,, WERNER FICHTER, TAMARA, FREY,SUSANNE EVA KRIEG, BARBARA, SINGLER, KARL-ULRICH TEMPL: Störfall im Finanzsystem, BAUSTEINE, 2010.
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