Research
Research Focuses
- political sociology, especially:
- social movements and protests
- political interest representation and participation
- the state and state bureaucracy
- public discourses
- sociological research on Europe
- social problems and conflicts
- sociological theory
Current Funded Projects
Precarious Presence: Mobilisation and Immobilisation in the Interactions between Local Immigration Authorities and Persons with Exceptional Leave to Remain
| Principal investigator: | Christian Lahusen |
| Researcher: | Stephanie Schneider |
| Research Group: | Transborder Mobility and Institutional Dynamics (Research Unit 5183) |
| Duration: | April 2022 - March 2026 |
| Financed by: | German Research Foundation |
| Website | https://for5183.uni-siegen.de/ |
The European Literary Field: Structures, Processes and Networks of Book Production and Translation in Europe
| Principal investigator: | Christian Lahusen |
| Researcher: | Dr. Lia Duran, Matthias Kuppler |
| Duration: | 01.01.2022-31.12.2024 |
| Financed by: | German Research Foundation |
| Website | https://blogs.uni-siegen.de/eurolit/ |
SoVE - Social trust as a prerequisite for social cohesion in Europe
| Research consortium: | Universität Siegen (Coordination) and European Alternatives Berlin e.V. |
| Researcher: | Johannes Kieß |
| Duration: | 01.02.2021-30.11.2023 |
| Financed by: | Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung |
| Website | https://www.uni-siegen.de/phil/sove/ |
Enlightened trust: An examination of trust and distrust in governance – conditions, effects and remedies (EnTrust)
| Research consortium: | Civil Society Europe (Belgium), Københavns Universitet (Denmark), Universität Siegen (Germany, Coordination), Panteio Panepistimio Koinonikon Kaipolitikon Epistimon (Greece), Università Degli Studi Di Siena (Italy), Uniwersytet Warszawski (Poland), Institut za filozofiju i drustvenu teoriju/University Belgrad (Serbia), Masarykova univerzita (Check Republic) |
| Researchers: | Ulrike Zschach, Marian Pradella, Johannes Kieß and Stephanie Schneider |
| Duration: | 01.02.2020-31.01.2024 |
| Financed by: | Commission of the European Union - Horizon2020 |
| Website | https://entrust-project.eu/ |
Completed research projects
Reinventing Democracy in Europe: Youth Doing Politics in Times of Increasing Inequalities (EURYKA)
| Principal investigators: | Lorenzo Bosi (I), Manlio Cinalli (F), Anna Clua (E), Marco Giugni (CH, Koordinator), Maria Grasso (UK), Maria Kousis (GR), Christian Lahusen (D), Lorenzo Marsili (UK), Marcin Sinczuch (PL), Katrin Uba (S) |
| Researcher: | Johannes Kiess |
| Duration: | February 2017 – January 2020 |
| Financed by: | Commission of the European Union - Horizon2020 |
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Europeanization of Asylum Administrative Practice? Transnational Administrative Cooperation between European Asylum Agencies
| Principal investigator: | Christian Lahusen and Karin Schittenhelm |
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| 1st phase | Jana Heine, Ester Stephanie Schneider and Kristina Wottrich |
| 2nd phase | Carolin Nieswandt, Stephanie Schneider, Marius Wacker |
| Duration: | May 2012 - April 2015(1st phase), cktober 2015 - September 2018 (2nd phase) |
| Financed by: | German Research Foundation |
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European paths to transnational solidarity at times of crisis: Conditions, forms, role-models & policy responses
| Principal investigators: | Simone Baglioni (Glasgow, UK), Daphne Büllesbach (Berlin, D), Manlio Cinalli (F), Carlo Fusaro (I), Marco Giugni (CH), Maria Grasso (Sheffield, UK), Maria Kousis (GR), Christian Lahusen (D, Coordinator), Lorenzo Marsili (London, UK), Maria Theiss (PL), Hans-Jörg Trenz (DK), |
| Researcher: | Ulrike Zschache |
| Duration: | June 2015 - May 2017 |
| Financed by: | Commission of the European Union - Horizon2020 |
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The Professionalization of European Lobbying. Conditions, Forms and Consequences of Professional Interest Representation at the European Union
| Principal investigator: | Christian Lahusen |
| Researcher: | Frank Borchers |
| Duration: | May 2014 - April 2017 |
| Financed by: | German Research Foundatio, Grant Agreement No. LA1117/6-1 |
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Living with hard times: Economic crisis, policy responses, and citizens reilience in Europe
| Principal investigators: | 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) |
| Researcher: | Johannes Kiess |
| Duration: | Januar 2014 - December 2016 |
| Financed by: | Commission of the European Union (7th Framework Programme) |
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Youth, unemployment and social exclusion. A multidimensional approach to understanding the conditions and prospects for social and political integration of young unemployed people
| Principal investigators: | Simone Baglioni (I), Manlio Cinalli (F), Birgitta Eriksson (S), Marco Giugni (CH, Coordinator), Christian Lahusen (D) and Slawomir Nowotny (PL) |
| Duration: | May 2008 - April 2011 |
| Financed by: | Commission of the European Union (7th Framework Programme) |
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The impact of the mass media on the acceptance of the welfare state
| Principal investigators: | Christian Lahusen and Nina Baur |
| Duration: | March-December 2004 |
| Financed by: | Otto-Friedrich-University of Bamberg ('Promotion of Young Scientists' - Programme) |
Contentious Politics of Unemployment in Europe: Political Claims-Making, Policy Deliberation, and Exclusion from the Labour Market
| Principal investigators: | Didier Chabanet (F), Donatella della Porta (I), Marco Giugni (CH), Christian Lahusen (D), Annulla Linders (S) and Paul Statham (GB) |
| Duration: | January 2002 - December 2004 |
| Financed by: | Commission of the European Union (5th Framework Programme) |
| Main publication: | Mobilization, 2008, Vol. 13, No. 3, Special Issue: The Contentious Politics of Unemployment in Europe. |
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Interest representation in multi-level systems. The European Union, interest group participation and European politics
| Principal investigators: | Richard Münch and Christian Lahusen |
| Duration: | July 1997 - June 1999 |
| Financed by: | German Research Foundation (research programme 'Governance in the European Union') |
| Main publication: | Christian Lahusen and Claudia Jauß, Lobbying als Beruf. Interessengruppen in der Europäischen Union. Baden‑Baden: Nomos, 2001. |
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The political governance of air pollution control. A comparative analysis of regulatory instruments in the field of transport and stationary sources in France, Germany, Great Britain and the United States of America
| Principal investigators: | Richard Münch and Christian Lahusen |
| Duration: | May 1994 - April 1997 |
| Financed by: | German Research Foundation, Ministry of Science and Research of North Rhine-Westphalia, German-American Association Steuben-Schurz and Anglo-German Foundation for the Study of Industrial Society. |
| Main publication: | Richard Münch and Christian Lahusen (eds.), Regulative Demokratie. Politik der Luftreinhaltung in Großbritannien, Frankreich, Deutschland und den USA. Frankfurt/Main: Campus, 2000. |