Jean-Baptiste Bonnet

Jean-Baptiste Bonnet earned a double Bachelor's degree from Sciences Po and Freie Universität Berlin in political science in 2021 and graduated from Sciences Po's Master in Political Science with a Public Policy major in 2023. He is currently working for his PhD thesis on the development of electric vehicles and dedicated public policies in Europe.

CONFERENCES

• SASE Annual Conference, Bordeaux, June 2026, presentation: The corporatist curse: How the EU gets stuck in the middle of a technological transition between China and the US
• Council for European Studies, Dublin, June 2026, presentation: Who Drives The Transition? Institutional Adaptation And The Politics Of Green Industrial Policies;  Poison pill: How incumbent support undermines the emergence of clean technologies
• European Graduate Network, Florence, March 2026, presentation: Who Drives The Transition? Institutional Adaptation And The Politics Of Green Industrial Policies
• European Graduate Network, Barcelona, March 2025, presentation: Poison pill: How incumbent support undermines the emergence of clean technologies

Research Stays

• Hertie School, Berlin, January–June 2025, supervisor: Anke Hassel, focus: fieldwork with the stakeholders of Germany’s automotive policy

Jean-Baptiste Bonnet's PhD research focuses on the development of electric vehicles amid the various institutional contexts of the European continent. His work is based on Comparative Political Economy studies on the variety of forms of capitalism and economic institutions. He seeks to understand how these institutional differences have shaped the trajectories of electric vehicle adoption and the trade-offs between ecological transition policies among different European countries. This PhD thesis is being carried out at the CEE under the supervision of Philippe Bezes and Cyril Benoît.

Paint it Green: the Political Economy of Ecological Transitions in Europe, co-supervised by Philippe Bezes and Cyril Benoit