Prof. Christian Lahusen, Ph.D.

The European Literary Field: Phase 2: Cultural Brokers and Border Practices

• Project Director: Prof. Dr. Christian Lahusen
• Research Associates: Lia Margarita Durán Mogollón, Matthias Kuppler, and Anna Saprikyna
• Project Duration: February 1, 2026–January 31, 2028
• Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)
• Website

Unwanted Permanence: Institutional Claims to Validity and Contested Im/Mobilities

• Project Director: Prof. Dr. Christian Lahusen
• Research Associates: Stephanie Schneider
• Project Duration: October 1, 2026–September 30, 2029
• Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)
• Website

The European Literary Landscape: Phase 1—Structures, Processes, and Networks of Book Production and Translation in Europe

• Project Director: Prof. Dr. Christian Lahusen
• Research Associates: Lia Margarita Durán Mogollón, Matthias Kuppler, and Anna Saprikyna
• Duration: January 1, 2022–July 31, 2025
• Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)
• Website

Precarious Stay: Mobilization and Immobilization in the Interaction Between Tolerated Persons Subject to Departure Orders and Immigration Authorities

• Research Consortium: Prof. Dr. Katharina Inhetveen, Prof. Dr. Christian Lahusen, Prof. Dr. Michaela Pelican (University of Cologne), Prof. Dr. Karin Schittenhelm
• Research Associate: Stephanie Schneider
• Duration: April 2022 – March 2026
• Funding by the German Research Foundation (DFG): Subproject of the DFG Research Group “Cross-Border Mobility and Institutional Dynamics”
• Website

Enlightened Trust: An Examination of Trust and Distrust in Governance—Conditions, Effects, and Remedies (EnTrust)

• Research Consortium: Civil Society Europe (Belgium), University of Copenhagen (Denmark), University of Siegen (Germany, coordinator), Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences (Greece), University of Siena (Italy), University of Warsaw (Poland), Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory/University of Belgrade (Serbia), Masaryk University (Czech Republic)
• Research Associates: Johannes Kieß, Marian Pradella, Stephanie Schneider, and Ulrike Zschache
• Project duration: February 2020 – April 2024
• Funded by the European Commission (Horizon 2020)
• Website

Social Trust as a Prerequisite for Social Cohesion in Europe (SoVE)

• Research Consortium: University of Siegen (coordination) and European Alternatives Berlin e.V.
• Research Associate: Dr. Johannes Kieß
• Duration: February 2021 – November 2023
• Funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research
• Website

Reinventing Democracy in Europe: Youth Doing Politics in Times of Increasing Inequalities (EURYKA)

• Research Consortium: Lorenzo Bosi (I), Manlio Cinalli (F), Anna Clua (E), Marco Giugni (CH, Coordinator), Maria Grasso (UK), Maria Kousis (GR), Christian Lahusen (D), Lorenzo Marsili (UK), Marcin Sinczuch (PL), Katrin Uba (S)
• Research Assistant: Johannes Kieß
• Duration: February 2017 – January 2020
• Funded by the European Commission (Horizon 2020)
• Website

Toward a European Asylum Administrative Field? Transnational Administrative Cooperation Among European Asylum Authorities

• Project Leaders: Christian Lahusen, Karin Schittenhelm
• Research Associates:
  • Phase 1: Jana Heine, Stephanie Schneider, and Kristina Wottrich
  • Phase 2: Carolin Nieswandt, Stephanie Schneider, and Marius Wacker
• Duration: May 2012–September 2015 (Phase 1) and October 2015–September 2018 (Phase 2)
• Funding by the German Research Foundation (DFG): Subproject of the DFG Research Group “European Socialization Processes: Horizontal Europeanization between Nation-State and Global Socialization (FOR 1539)”
• Website  

European Paths to Transnational Solidarity in Times of Crisis: Conditions, Forms, Role Models, and Policy Responses (TransSOL)

• Research Consortium: Simone Baglioni (UK), Daphne Büllesbach (D), Manlio Cinalli (F), Carlo Fusaro (I), Marco Giugni (CH), Maria Grasso (UK), Maria Kousis (GR), Christian Lahusen (D, Coordinator), Lorenzo Marsili (UK), Maria Theiss (PL), Hans-Jörg Trenz (DK)
• Research Associates: Olga Eisele, Jackson Oldfield, and Ulrike Zschache
• Project duration: June 2015 – May 2018
• Funded by the European Commission (Horizon 2020)
• Website

The Professionalization of European Lobbying: Conditions, Forms, and Consequences of the Emergence of Professional Representation of Interests in the European Union

• Project Director: Christian Lahusen
• Research Associate: Frank Borchers
• Project Duration: May 2014 – April 2017
• Funded by the German Research Foundation (individual grant)

Living with Hard Times: Economic Crisis, Policy Responses, and Citizens’ Resilience in Europe (LIVEWHAT)

• Research Consortium: Eva Anduiza (E), Lorenzo Bosi (I), Manlio Cinalli (F), Marco Giugni (CH, Coordinator), Maria Grasso (UK), Maria Kousis (GR), Christian Lahusen (D), Maria Theiss (PL), Katrin Uba (S)
• Research Assistant: Johannes Kieß
• Duration: December 2013 – December 2016
• Funded by the European Commission (7th Framework Program for Research)
• Website

Youth, Unemployment, and Social Exclusion: A Multidimensional Approach to Understanding the Conditions and Prospects for Social and Political Integration of Young Unemployed People (YOUNEX)

• Research Consortium: Simone Baglioni (I), Manlio Cinalli (F), Birgitta Eriksson (S), Christian Lahusen (D), Marco Giugni (CH, Coordinator), and Slawomir Nowotny (PL)
• Duration: May 2008 – April 2011
• Funded by the European Commission (7th Framework Program)
• Website

Contentious Politics of Unemployment in Europe: Political Claims-Making, Policy Deliberation, and Exclusion from the Labor Market (UNEMPOL)

• Research consortium: Didier Chabanet (F), Donatella della Porta (I), Marco Giugni (CH, coordinator), Christian Lahusen (D), Annulla Linders (S), and Paul Statham (GB)
• Duration: January 2002 – December 2004
• Funded by: European Commission (5th Framework Program)

Representation of Interests in Multi-Level Systems: Forms and Possibilities for a European Policy under Conditions of Association-Based Participation

• Project leaders: Richard Münch and Christian Lahusen
• Duration: July 1997 – June 1999
• Funded by the German Research Foundation (Priority Program “Governance in the European Union”)

Political Governance of Air Quality Control. A Cross-National Analysis of Regulatory Instruments in the Areas of Stationary Sources and Transportation

• Project leaders: Richard Münch and Christian Lahusen
• Duration: May 1994 – April 1997
• Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), the Ministry of Science and Research of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, the German-American Steuben-Schurz Association, and the Anglo-German Foundation for the Study of Industrial Society.

• Lahusen, Christian (2023). European Lobbying: An Occupational Field between Professionalism and Activism. London and New York: Routledge.
• Lahusen, Christian, Karin Schittenhelm, and Stephanie Schneider (2022). European Asylum Policy and Local Administrative Action: On Administrative Practices in Germany and Sweden. Bielefeld: transcript (with Karin Schittenhelm & Stephanie Schneider).
• Lahusen, Christian (2021). Political Attitudes of Divided European Citizens: Public Opinion and Social Inequalities in a Comparative and Relational Perspective. London: Routledge.
• Manlio Cinalli, Hans-Jörg Trenz, Verena Brändle, Olga Eisele, and Christian Lahusen (2021). Solidarity in the Media and Public Contention over Refugees in Europe. London: Routledge.
• Marco Giugni, Jasmine Lorenzini, Manlio Cinalli, Christian Lahusen, and Simone Baglioni (2021). Young People and Long-Term Unemployment: Personal, Social, and Political Effects. London: Routledge.
• Lahusen, Christian (2020). European Lobbying: A Field of Work Between Professionalism and Activism. Frankfurt am Main: Campus.
• Lahusen, Christian (2019). A Divided Europe: A Political Sociology of the European Union. Frankfurt am Main: Campus Verlag.
• Lahusen, Christian, and Britta Baumgarten (2010). The End of Social Peace? Politics and Protest in the Era of the Hartz Reforms. Frankfurt am Main: Campus.
• Lahusen, Christian (2003). Contractual Politics. Political Socialization: The Case of Air Pollution Control in the Federal Republic of Germany, France, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Weilerswist: Velbrück Wissenschaft.
• Lahusen, Christian, and Claudia Jauß (2001). Lobbying as a Profession. Interest Groups in the European Union. Baden-Baden: Nomos-Verlagsgesellschaft.
• Lahusen, Christian and Carsten Stark (2000). Modernization. An Introduction to Reading Classical Sociological Texts. Munich: Oldenbourg Verlag.
• Lahusen, Christian (1996). The Rhetoric of Moral Protest. Public Campaigns, Celebrity Endorsement, and Political Mobilization. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter.
• Lahusen, Christian (1991). “Our Voice Awakens.” Popular Music Culture and the National Question in Contemporary Spain. Saarbrücken: Breitenbach.

• Lahusen, Christian (ed.) (2026). Political Trust and Distrust in Governance: A Comparative Analysis in Times of Crisis. London: Routledge.https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003584537
• Lahusen, Christian, Ulrike Zschache, and Maria Kousis (eds.) (2021). Transnational Solidarity in Times of Crisis: Citizens’ Organizations and Collective Learning in Europe. Cham: Palgrave/Macmillan.
• Lahusen, Christian (ed.) (2020). Citizens’ Solidarity in Europe: Civic Engagement and Public Discourse in Times of Crisis. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
• Lahusen, Christian, and Maria Grasso (eds.) (2018). Solidarity in Europe: Citizens’ Responses in Times of Crisis. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Federico, Veronica, and Christian Lahusen (eds.) (2018). Solidarity as a Public Virtue? Law and Public Policies in the European Union. Baden-Baden: Nomos.
• Pernicka, Dusanne and Christian Lahusen (eds.) (2018). Power and Counter Power in Europe. The Transnational Structuring of Social Spaces and Social Fields. Austrian Journal of Sociology: Supplement/Special Issue 1/43.
• Andrea Schneiker, Christian Henrich-Franke, Robert Kaiser, and Christian Lahusen (eds.) (2018). Transnational Expertise: Internal Cohesion and External Recognition of Expert Groups. Baden-Baden: Nomos.
• Lahusen, Christian, and Stephanie Schneider (eds.) (2017). Managing Asylum: On the Bureaucratic Handling of a Social Problem. Bielefeld: transcript.
• Lahusen, Christian, and Masrco Giugni (eds.) (2016). Experiencing Long-Term Unemployment in Europe. Youth on the Edge. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Stark, Carsten and Christian Lahusen (eds.) (2010). Corruption and New Statehood: Perspectives on Social Science Research on Corruption. Norderstedt: BoD.
• Bach, Maurizio, Christian Lahusen, and Georg Vobruba (eds.) (2006). Europe in Motion. Social Dynamics and Political Institutions in an Enlarging Europe. Berlin: edition sigma (edited with Maurizio Bach & Georg Vobruba).
• Aretz, Hans-Jürgen and Christian Lahusen (eds.) (2005). The Order of Society. Bern, et al.: Peter Lang Verlag.
• Klein, Ansgar, Ruud Koopmans, Hans-Jörg Trenz, Ludger Klein, Christian Lahusen, and Dieter Rucht (eds.) (2003). Citizenship, the Public Sphere, and Democracy in Europe. Opladen: Leske + Budrich.
• Stark, Carsten, and Christian Lahusen (eds.) (2002). Theories of Society: An Introduction to Key Paradigms of Contemporary Sociological Analysis. Munich: Oldenbourg Verlag.
• Münch, Richard and Christian Lahusen (eds.) (2000). Regulative Democracy: Air Pollution Control Policies in Great Britain, France, Germany, and the United States. Frankfurt/M.: Campus.

• Lahusen, Christian, Jelena Ceriman, Anastasi Kafe (2026). "The Fragility of Trust: Interpersonal Encounters, Institutional Distrust, and Conditional Spillovers in the Area of Social Service Delivery." Regulation & Governance, pp. 1–13.https://doi.org/10.1111/rego.70148
• Lahusen, Christian (2024). "Trust and Distrust in Political Institutions: Conceptual and Theoretical Reassessments." Journal of Political Sociology, 2(1): 80–104. doi:https://doi.org/10.54195/jps.19659
• Lahusen, Christian, Martino Maggetti, and Marija Slavkovik (2024). "Trust, trustworthiness, and AI governance." Scientific Reports, 14: 20752. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-71761-0.
• Lahusen, Christian (2023). “Solidarity.” In Marco Giugni & Maria Grasso (eds.). Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Sociology ( pp. 568–571). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
• Fernández, Eva G.G., Maria Kousis, and Christian Lahusen (2022). “Measuring Organizational Practices of Solidarity Across Sectors and Countries.” In SAGE Research Methods Cases: Doing Research Online. doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781529799255.
• Lahusen, Christian (2022). “The (un)loved Union: Social and Political Cleavages.” In: Sebastian M. Büttner, Monika Eigmüller, and Susann Worschech (eds.), Sociology of Europeanization (pp. 309–333). Berlin: De Gruyter. doi: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110673630-013
• Fernández, Eva G. G., Christian Lahusen, and Maria Kousis (2021).“Does Organization Matter? Solidarity Approaches among Organizations and Sectors in Europe.” Sociological Research Online, 26(3): 649–671.
• Lahusen, Christian, and Johanes Kiess (2020). “The Diverging Presence of Youth in Public Discourse: A Comparative Analysis of Youth-Related Debates Across Countries and Issue Fields.” American Behavioral Scientist, 64(5): 574–590.
• Lahusen, Christian (2020). "Civic Solidarity in Transnational Spaces: Organization and Institutionalization of Solidarity Within the European Union." In: Helle Krunke, Hanne Petersen, and Ian Manners (eds.), Transnational Solidarity: Concept, Challenges, and Opportunities (pp. 301–324). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Lahusen, Christian, and Marius Wacker (2019). “A European Field of Public Administration? Administrative Cooperation of Asylum Agencies in the Dublin System.” In: Martin Heidenreich (ed.), Horizontal Europeanization: The Transnationalization of Daily Life and Social Fields in Europe (pp. 153–174). London: Routledge.
• Lahusen, Christian, and Maria Theiss (2019).“European Transnational Solidarity: Citizenship in Action?” *American Behavioral Scientist*, 63(4): 444–458.
• Lahusen, Christian, and Johannes Kiess (2019). “‘Subjective Europeanization’: Do Intra-European Comparisons Affect Life Satisfaction?” European Societies, 21(2): 214–236.
• Lahusen, Christian (2018). “Interest representation as a field of expertise: the professionalization of lobbyists in the European Union.” In: Andea Schneiker, Christian Henrich-Franke, Robert Kaiser, Christian Lahusen (eds.), Transnational Expertise. Internal Cohesion and External Recognition of Expert Groups (pp. 179–204). Baden-Baden: Nomos.
• Kiess, Johannes, Christian Lahusen, and Ulrike Zschache (2018).“Solidarity Activism in Germany: What Explains Different Types and Levels of Engagement?” In: Christian Lahusen, Maria Grasso (eds.), Solidarity in Europe. Citizens’ Responses in Times of Crisis (pp. 43–71). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Lahusen, Christian, Maria Kousis, Ulrike Zschache, and Angelos Loukakis (2018).“European Solidarity in Times of Crisis: Comparing Transnational Activism of Civic Organizations in Germany and Greece.” Austrian Journal of Sociology, Supplement 1/43: Power and Counter-Power in Europe: 173–197.
• Kiess, Johannes, and Christian Lahusen (2018). “An Island of Bliss—For Everyone? Perceptions and Experiences of the Crisis Across Social Classes in Germany.” In: Marco Giugni, Maria Grasso (eds.), Citizens and the Crisis. Experiences, Perceptions, and Responses to the Great Recession in Europe (pp. 189–214). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Kousis, Maria, Marco Giugni, and Christian Lahusen (2018). “Action Organization Analysis: Extending Protest Event Analysis Using Hubs-Retrieved Websites.” *American Behavioral Scientist*, 62(6): 739–757.
• Lahusen, Christian, and Lisa Bleckmann (2017). “Different Protest Cultures? A Comparative Analysis of Demonstration Participation in East and West Germany, 1990–2013." Leviathan, Special Issue 33: Protest in Motion? On the Transformation of Conditions, Forms, and Effects of Political Protest: 225–254.
• Lahusen, Christian (2016). “Toward a European Administrative Field? On the Sociology of the Bureaucratization of Europe Using the Example of the Common European Asylum System.” Berliner Journal für Soziologie, 26 (1): 109–133.
• Lahusen, Christian, Maria Kousis, Johannes Kiess, and Maria Paschou (2016).“Political Claims and Discourse Formations: A Comparative Account of Germany and Greece in the Eurozone Crisis.” Politics & Policy, 44 (3): 525–552.
• Hobbins, Jennifer, and Christian Lahusen (2015).“Between Evasion and Activism: A Qualitative Inquiry into the Political Behavior of German and Swedish Long-Term Unemployed.” Partecipazione e Conflitto, 8(3): 788–813.
• Bassoli, Matteo, and Christian Lahusen (2015).“Political Participation by the Deprived: A Comparative Analysis of Political Behavior Among Unemployed Young Adults.” Partecipazione e Conflitto, 8 (3): 761–769.
• Lahusen, Christian, and Lisa Bleckmann (2015).“Beyond the Ballot Box: Changing Patterns of Political Protest Participation in Germany (1974–2008).” German Politics, 24 (3): 402–426.
• Lahusen, Christian (2014). “The Localism of Disruptive Actions: The Protests of the Unemployed in Germany.” In: Didier Chabanet and Frédéric Royall (eds.), From Silence to Protest. International Perspectives on Weakly Resourced Groups (pp. 141–158). Farnham: Ashgate.
• Lahusen, Christian, and Bettina Grimmer (2014). “Cliques, Cleavages, and Conflicts: Local Civil Societies in Cologne and Turin.” In: Simone Baglioni and Marco Giugni (eds.), Civil Society Organizations, Unemployment, and Precarity in Europe. Between Service and Policy (pp. 136–156). Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Lahusen, Christian (2014). “Mind the Gap: Local Civil Society Organizations and the European Union.” In: Simone Baglioni and Marco Giugni (eds.), Civil Society Organizations, Unemployment, and Precarity in Europe. Between Service and Policy (pp. 204–228). Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Grauel, Jonas, Jana Heine, and Christian Lahusen (2014).“Who Is Afraid of the (Big Bad) European Union? European Integration and Fears About Job Losses.” In: Wil Arts and Loek Halman (eds.). Value Contrasts and Consensus in Present-Day Europe. Painting Europe’s Moral Landscapes (pp. 19–43). Boston: Brill.
• Lahusen, Christian (2013).“European integration, social cohesion, and political contentiousness.” In: Bernadette Andreosso-O’Callaghan and Frédéric Royall (eds.). Economic and Political Change in Asia and Europe. Social Movement Analyses (pp. 31–52). Dordrecht: Springer.
• Lahusen, Christian (2013). “Law and lawyers in Brussels’ world of commercial consultants.” In: Antoine Vauchez and Bruno de Witte (eds.), *Lawyering Europe: European Law as a Transnational Field* (pp. 177–194). Oxford: Hart Publishing.
• Lahusen, Christian, Natalia Schulz, and Paolo Roberto Graziano (2013). “Promoting social Europe? The development of European youth unemployment policies.” International Journal of Social Welfare, 22(3): 300–309.
• Lahusen, Christian (2013). “The protests of the unemployed in France, Germany, and Sweden (1994–2004): Protest dynamics and political contexts.” Social Movement Studies: Journal of Social, Cultural, and Political Protest, 12(1): 1–22.
• Lahusen, Christian (2013). “Toward Pan-European Contentions? European Integration and Its Effects on Political Mobilization.” In: Armando Salvatore, Oliver Schmidtke, and Hand-Jörg Trenz (eds.). Rethinking the Public Sphere Through Transnationalizing Processes: Europe and Beyond (pp. 152–167). Houndsmill, Basingstoke: Palgrave.
• Baumgarten, Britta, and Christian Lahusen (2012). “The Mobilization of the Unemployed in Germany (1998–2004).” In: Didier Chabanet and Jean Faniel (eds.). The Mobilization of the Unemployed in Europe: From Acquiescence to Protest? (pp. 57–88). Houndsmill, Basingstoke: Palgrave / Macmillan. DOI:10.1057/9781137011862_3
• Lahusen, Christian (2012). “Social Movements.” In: Steffen Mau and Nadine M. Schöneck (eds.). Concise Dictionary of German Society (pp. 717–729). Wiesbaden: Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften.
• Lahusen, Christian, and Carsten Stark (2010). “The Functionalist Analysis of Social, Person-Centered Service Organizations.” In: Thomas Klatetzki (ed.), Social, Person-Centered Service Organizations. Sociological Perspectives (pp. 167–197). Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-9
• Lahusen, Christian, Marco Giugni, and Michel Berclaz (2010).“Globalization and the Contentious Politics of Unemployment: Towards Denationalization and Convergence?” In: Marco Giugni (ed.). The Contentious Politics of Unemployment in Europe. Welfare States and Political Opportunities (pp. 171–197). Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave/Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230304.
• Stark, Carsten, and Christian Lahusen (2010).“Corruption and New Statehood—Old Wine in New Bottles?” In: Carsten Stark and Christian Lahusen (eds.), Corruption and New Statehood. Perspectives on Social Science Research on Corruption (pp. 7–22). Norderstedt: Books on Demand.
• Baglioni, Simone, Britta Baumgarten, Didier Chabanet, and Christian Lahusen (2010). “Transcending Marginalization: The Mobilization of the Unemployed in France, Germany, and Italy from a Comparative Perspective.” In: Marco Giugni (ed.). The Contentious Politics of Unemployment in Europe. Welfare States and Political Opportunities (pp. 152–168). Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave/Macmillan.
• (2009). “Unity in Diversity? Social Inclusion and Social Protection for Unemployed Youth in Germany, Sweden, and Portugal.” Si:So 2/2009, pp. 42–59 (with Bettina Grimmer).
• (2009). “Local Protest and National Action Coalitions: The Case of Unemployment Protests between 1998 and 2004.” In: Katharina Inhetveen and Georg Klute (eds.). Encounters and Confrontations. Festschrift for Trutz von Trotha (pp. 498–515). Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag.
• (2009). “The Hidden Hand of the European Union and the Silent Europeanization of Public Debates on Unemployment: The Case of the European Employment Strategy.” In: Marco Giugni (ed.). The Politics of Unemployment in Europe: Policy Responses and Collective Action (pp. 151–171). Aldershot: Ashgate.
• (2008). “The Dynamics and Statics of European Integration—An Essay on the Sociology of Europe.” Soziologische Revue, 31 (2), pp. 127–136.
• (2008). “Cocktail Circles: Social Movement Organizations and the European Union.” In: Krzysztof Gorlach and Patrick H. Mooney (eds.). The Dynamics of Social Life: Contemporary Concepts of Social Movements (pp. 374–393). Warsaw: Scholar Scientific Publishing House.
• (2008). “Terrorist ‘Orders’: A Functionalist Analysis of the Northern Ireland Conflict.” In: Thorsten Bonacker, Reiner Greshoff, and Uwe Schimank (eds.). Comparative Social Theories: The Northern Ireland Conflict as a Case Study (pp. 141–160). Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag.
• (2008) “Transcending Marginalization: The Mobilization of the Unemployed in France, Germany, and Italy in Comparative Perspective.” Mobilization, 13(3): 323–335 (with Simone Baglioni, Britta Baumgarten, and Didier Chabanet).
• (2007). “The Invisible Hand of the European Union and the Silent Europeanization of Public Debates on Unemployment.” Politique européenne, 21 (Winter 2007): 41–71.
• (2006). “The Fragility of Collective Action: Unemployment Protests in Germany and France.” Zeitschrift für Soziologie, 35(2): 102–119.
• (2006).“Public Debates on Unemployment: Between National Disparity and European Uniformity.” In: Martin Heidenreich (ed.). The Europeanization of Social Inequalities (pp. 313–337). Frankfurt/M.: Campus.
• (2006).“European Integration and Civil Societies: Between Advocacy Networks and Service Markets.” In: Maurizio Bach, Christian Lahusen, and Georg Vobruba (eds.). *Europe in Motion: Social Dynamics and Political Institutions in an Enlarging Europe* (pp. 119–139). Berlin: Edition Sigma.
• (2006). “Introduction: The Problem of the European Union—Political Integration Leaving Out Society.” In: Maurizio Bach, Christian Lahusen, and Georg Vobruba (eds.). *Europe in Motion: Social Dynamics and Political Institutions in an Enlarging Europe* (pp. 7–10). Berlin: Edition Sigma.
• (2006). “Political Networks: Advantages and Key Features of a Qualitative Analysis Strategy.” In: Betina Hollstein and Florian Straus (eds.), Qualitative Network Analysis: Concepts, Methods, Applications (pp. 177–197), Opladen: VS Verlag (with Britta Baumgarten).
• (2005). “Introduction: The Social Order Between Local Lifestyles and Global Society.” In: Hans-Jürgen Aretz and Christian Lahusen (Eds.). The Order of Society (pp. 11–31). Bern, et al.: Peter Lang Verlag (with Hans-Jürgen Aretz).
• (2005). “Commercial Consulting Firms in the European Union.” In Rainer Eising and Beate Kohler-Koch (eds.). Interest Politics in Europe (pp. 251–280). Baden-Baden: Nomos.
• (2005). “Sampling Process-Generated Data in Order to Trace Social Change: The Case of Newspapers.” In: Cor van Dijkum, Jörg Blasius, and C. Durand (eds.), Recent Developments and Applications in Social Research Methodology. Opladen: Barbara Budrich Publishers (e-book) (with Nina Baur).
• (2004). “Institutionalization and Professionalization of European Lobbying.” Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen, 35(4): 777–794.
• (2004). “Joining the cocktail circuit: Social movement organizations at the European Union.” Mobilization, 9(1): 55–71.
• (2003). “The Contractualization of the Political.” Soziale Welt, Special Issue 14: The Concept of the Political (edited by Armin Nassehi and Markus Schroer): 101–116.
• (2003). “The ‘Politicization’ of European Politics: Lobbying in the European Union.” Forschungsjournal Neue Soziale Bewegungen, 16(3): 80–85.
• (2003). “Introduction: Identity and Community Dimensions as a Challenge to European Integration.” In Ansgar Klein et al. (Eds.). Citizenship, Public Sphere, and Democracy in Europe (pp. 249–53). Opladen: Leske + Budrich.
• (2003).“Integration: From the Supportive to the Demanding Welfare State” (A Comparison of the U.S. and Germany). In Stephan Lessenich (ed.). Basic Concepts of the Welfare State: Historical and Contemporary Discourses (pp. 353–371). Frankfurt/M.: Campus (with Carsten Stark).
• (2003). “Interest Groups and Lobbying in the European Union.” In: Werner Weidenfeld & Wolfgang Wessels (eds.), Yearbook of European Integration 2002/2003 (pp. 307–312). Bonn: Europa Union Verlag.
• (2003). “Moving into the European Orbit: Commercial Consultants in the European Union.” European Union Politics, 4(2): 191–218.
• (2002) “Commercial Consultancies in the European Union: The Shape and Structure of Professional Interest Intermediation.” Journal of European Public Policy, 9(5): 695–714.
• (2002).“Institutional Environments and the Capacity of NGOs to Act.” In Christiane Frantz and Annette Zimmer (Eds.), International Civil Society: Old and New NGOs (pp. 257–78). Opladen: Leske + Budrich.
• (2002). “International Campaigns Between Protest Events and Entertainment Events.” In Heike Walk and Nele Böhme (eds.), Global Resistance: International Networks in Search of Alternatives to Global Capitalism (pp. 83–100). Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot.
• (2002). “Classical Modernization Theories: Questions and Perspectives of the Founding Fathers of Sociology.” In Carsten Stark and Christian Lahusen (Eds.), Theories of Society. An Introduction to Central Paradigms of Contemporary Sociological Analysis (pp. 9–35), Munich: Oldenbourg.
• (2002). “Transnational Campaigns of Social Movements: Outlines of a Typology.” Forschungsjournal Neue Soziale Bewegungen, 15(1): 40–6.
• (2001). “Introduction: Democratic Politics and Ecological Challenges.” In Richard Münch (ed.), Democracy at Work: A Comparative Sociology of Environmental Regulation in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and the United States (pp. 1–18). Westport, Conn.: Praeger (with Richard Münch).
• (2001).“Mobilizing for International Solidarity: Mega-Events and Moral Crusades.” In Marco Giugni and Florence Passy (eds.), Political Altruism. The Solidarity Movement in International Perspective (177–95), Lanham, Md.: Rowan & Littlefield.
• (2001). “Political Regulation in Sociological Perspective: A Multidimensional Framework of Analysis.” In Richard Münch (ed.), *Democracy at Work: A Comparative Sociology of Environmental Regulation in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and the United States* (pp. 19–46), Westport, Conn.: Praeger.
• (2000). “Democratic Politics in the Face of Environmental Challenges.” In Richard Münch and Christian Lahusen (eds.), Regulatory Democracy: Air Pollution Control Policy in Great Britain, France, Germany, and the U.S. (pp. 15–37). Frankfurt/M.: Campus (with Richard Münch).
• (2000). “Nelson Mandela as a Pop Icon: Mega-Events and Political Mobilization in the Global Village.” In Winfried Gebhardt, Ronald Hitzler, and Michaela Pfadenhauer (eds.), Events. Sociology of the Extraordinary (pp. 287–304). Opladen: Leske + Budrich.
• (2000). “Structures of Political Regulatory Practice.” In Richard Münch and Christian Lahusen (eds.), Regulative Democracy: Air Pollution Control Policies in Great Britain, France, Germany, and the U.S. (pp. 39–62). Frankfurt am Main: Campus.
• (2000). “The Good Government: Cooperative Environmental Regulation in a Comparative Perspective.” *European Environment*, 10 (6), pp. 253–64.
• (1999). “The Trouble with the Welfare State.” Soziologische Revue, 22(2): 181–93.
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