Solidarity in Europe

Christian Lahusen holds a Chair of Sociology in the Faculty of Arts at Siegen University, Germany. He studied sociology in Düsseldorf and Madrid and received his PhD from the European University Institute in Florence. His research interests include social theories, political sociology and the sociology of European societies and European integration.Maria T. Grasso is Professor at the Department of Politics, University of Sheffield, UK. She is the author of Generations, Political Participation and Social Change in Western Europe (2016) and co-editor of Austerity and Protest: Popular Contention in Times of Economic Crisis (2015). Her research focuses on political sociology and political engagement.

• Solidarity in Europe – European solidarity: An introduction; Christian Lahusen  and Maria Grasso.- Towards a new conditionality of welfare? Reconsidering solidarity in the Danish welfare state; Hans-Jörg Trenz and Maria Grasso.- Solidarity activism in Germany: What explains different types and levels of engagement?; Johannes Kiess, Christian Lahusen, Ulrike Zschache.- Pulling together or pulling apart? Solidarity in the post-crisis United Kingdom; Tom Montgomery, Simone Baglioni, Olga Biosca and Maria Grasso.- Solidarity practices in Poland and their social capital foundations; Anna Kurowska and Maria Theiss.- The social and political dimensions of solidarity in Italy; Nicola Maggini.- Volunteering for refugees and asylum seekers in Greece; Stefania Kalogeraki.- Civic and political solidarity practices in Switzerland; Eva Fernandez G..- Trajectories of solidarities in France across fields of vulnerability; Manlio Cinalli  and Maria Jimena Sanhueza.- European Solidarity: a comparative assessment and discussion; Christian Lahusen and Maria Grasso.