This open access volume provides evidence-based knowledge on European solidarity and citizen responses in times of crisis. Does the crisis of European integration translate into a crisis of European solidarity, and if yes, what are the manifestations at the level of individual citizens? How strongly is solidarity rooted at the individual level, both in terms of attitudes and practices? And which driving factors and mechanisms contribute to the reproduction and/or corrosion of solidarity in times of crisis? Using findings from the EU Horizon 2020 funded research project European paths to transnational solidarity at times of crisis: Conditions, forms, role-models and policy responses (TransSOL), the books addresses these questions and provides cross-national comparisons of eight European countries Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland, Switzerland, and the UK. It will appeal to students, scholars and policymakers interested in the Eurocrisis, politics and sociology.

Investigates whether solidarity is on the retreat within the European citizenry Evaluates how strongly solidarity is rooted at the individual level, both in terms of attitudes and practices Presents empirical evidence from 8 European countries

Autorentext
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.

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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.