Christian Lahusen Bücher

Die Beschäftigung mit den "KLassikern" der Soziologie ist ein wesentliches Element jedes Soziologiestudiums. Hier ist nun die didaktisch herauragend gestaltete und zugleich motivierende Einführung.

The book explores how the European integration process has influenced the political perspectives of citizens, highlighting the interplay between objective inequalities and their subjective perceptions. It examines how these factors contribute to political dissent within an integrated Europe, offering insights into the complexities of public sentiment in relation to European policies and governance.

Focusing on the role of lobbyists in shaping European Union policy, the book analyzes interview and survey data to explore the development of a cohesive occupational field among these professionals. It examines the implications of this trend towards professionalization for interest representation, shedding light on how organized lobbying efforts may impact democratic processes and policy outcomes within the EU.

This edited volume is devoted to analysing transnational expertise, a topic that has received considerable attention in the social sciences and history, especially in research on transnational professional networks and associations, epistemic communities and groups of practitioners. Yet more knowledge about transnational expertise is needed, given the growing importance of expertise in an ever more complex world in which interdependencies between different types of actors and organisations are increasing and in which these actors often have to cooperate to address transnational issues. While studies regarding the above-mentioned concepts have generally involved empirical cases of expertise in the context of transnational governance since the end of the Cold War, transnational expertise actually played an important role long before 1990. Therefore, this volume adopts an interdisciplinary approach that includes perspectives from history, sociology and political science. With contributions by Ingvild Bode, Christian Henrich-Franke, Robert Kaiser, Christian Lahusen, Alexander Reinfeld, Lukas Schemper, Andrea Schneiker and Carola Maria Westermeier.