Katharina Zimmermann
Biographic Data
| ID | 371195 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katharina Zimmermann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katharina |
| FAMILY NAME | Zimmermann |
| SIGNATURE | ZIMMERMANN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universität Hamburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1074-3356 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 123 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The Distributive Consequences of Active Welfare Policies in Europe
This article examines the distributive consequences of active welfare policies in Europe by analysing tier‐specific investments in individualised employment services across four European welfare states: Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. We find marked variation in the allocation of active labour market services between contributory unemployment insurance schemes and non‐contributory minimum income schemes. While Germany ad…
The Eco-Social Polity?
The devastating effects of climate change are undeniable. Fires rage and waters rise in every corner of the globe. In light of these changes to our planet, the issue of social and environmental wellbeing has gained prominent attention from both academia and policy makers. Scholarly research on the interaction between social and employment policy domains has flourished. Academics now reflect on the different aspects of environmental and social pro…
Eco-Social Polity
Navigating Eco‐Social Policymaking
In recent years, research on the integration between social and ecological policies has significantly expanded, highlighting the multiple ways in which these two domains interact. Concepts such as “just transition” and “sustainable welfare” have gained prominence as normative frameworks capturing these interconnections. However, despite the increasing scholarly attention, several important theoretical, conceptual, and empirical gaps remain, parti…
Setting the scene in Europe
This editorial argues for the importance of examining European social policy-making in relation to climate change from a global social policy perspective. It highlights that climate change significantly impacts social policy, both in cushioning its negative effects and in recognising how traditional welfare state models have contributed to ecological crises with severe inequalities between countries. The European Union, with its relatively advanc…
The quest for solutions
Regulierung oder Responsibilisierung? – Zur Neuauflage von Klassen- und Kulturkompromiss in der Klimakrise
In der aktuellen Debatte zur Klimakrise wird die Rolle des Wohlfahrtsstaats zur Vergrößerung gesellschaftlicher Akzeptanz von Klimaschutzmaßnahmen zunehmend in den Vordergrund gerückt. Analysen qualitativer Fokusgruppendaten legen jedoch nahe, dass die Kernkonflikte im Klimaschutz weniger um spezifische Verteilungsfragen kreisen, sondern vielmehr um grundlegende gesellschaftspolitische Steuerungsfragen. Materielle und kulturelle Verteilungskonfli…
The Managerial Family? Family Care Work in Germany and Spain
This article engages with scholarly debates on the emergence of market logics in family life. By deploying qualitative data from couple interviews in Germany and Spain, we show how the existence of a so-called managerial family is salient among interviewees in both countries. Couples might introduce weekly family planning meetings or follow investment strategies when organizing childcare and housework. Drawing on the theoretical concept of moral …
Eco-social policies in a multilevel setup
This paper examines the intersection of eco-social policies and multilevel governance within the framework of the European Green Deal (EGD), focusing on Germany as a case study. We explore how German stakeholders employ the EGD as a framing tool for socio-political discourses aimed at addressing the social risks of the green transition by promoting (or not promoting) integrated social and ecological policies. Applying the ‘usages of Europe’ frame…
Varieties of green transitions’? Comparative welfare state research and the social dimension of green transitions
In the light of the climate crisis, ‘green transitions’ are inevitable to address the environmental harm caused by fossil capitalism. The article argues that the pathway of such green transitions is closely interrelated with welfare setups, as the answer to the questions ‘who wins, who loses; who supports, who opposes the green transition—and why?’ is strongly dependent on the welfare setup of a given economy. The welfare state not only stabilise…
Climate Crisis and Social Protection - From Worker Protection to Post-growth Transformation
The article discusses five literature strands’ approaches towards social protection systems in the context of climate crisis: Adaptive Social Protection, Just Transition, Green New Deal, Post-growth, and Eco-feminism. As we argue, these five strands are located on a spectrum between a green growth orientation and a green anti-capitalist orientation. Furthermore, they differ in terms of their problematisation of the climate crisis and have differe…
Mapping the social dimension of the European Green Deal
The European Green Deal calls for various economic reforms that will deeply disrupt the social order of European societies. As the European Commission makes very clear in its communications on the EGD, societal support for the profound changes that will inevitably accompany a ‘green transition’ hinges on social inclusion of stakeholders and social groups. This article aims to identify the social policy instruments proposed by the EGD to address t…
The Sustainable Welfare and Eco-Social Policy Network
Introduction to the special issue
Green deservingness, green distinction, green democracy? Towards a political sociology of a contested eco-social consensus
What and whom are family policies for? Unpacking the meaning of citizens’ support for family policy across Europe
The paper provides a comparative investigation into public attitudes to family policies. It shows that citizens’ support for family policies is diverse across different welfare regimes with respect to four countries belonging to distinct regimes: the United Kingdom, Germany, Norway and Slovenia. Using qualitative data, we unpack the ways individuals view the need for family policies, the rationale they use to explain their support for family poli…
Closer to the Market
Adding to vital debates in EU Studies about the executive power of European governance, this article analyses the influence of EU research funding in the social sciences. The standardization and enforcement of norms, principles, and language codes, we argue, play a crucial role in EU governance. Applying a mixed‐method approach, we show that mastery of the ‘EU language game’ does more than help scholars obtain EU funding; it also generates indivi…
Erwerbs- und Familienarbeit im Homeoffice? Innerfamiliale Arbeitsteilung in der Corona-Krise auf dem Prüfstand
Mit der COVID-19-Pandemie scheinen sich soziale Ungleichheiten zu verschärfen, sowohl weltweit als auch zwischen den Geschlechtern. In Bezug auf die innerfamiliale Arbeitsteilung werden unterschiedliche Thesen diskutiert – das Risiko der Retraditionalisierung auf der einen und die Chance der Modernisierung auf der anderen Seite. In diesem Beitrag verbinden und systematisieren wir die verschiedenen Stränge des wissenschaftlichen Diskurses und die …
Loose, Sven
Loose, Sven: Der grenzüberschreitende Formwechsel von Kapitalgesellschaften. Eine rechtsvergleichende Gesamtschau zur identitätswahrenden Unternehmensmobilität in Deutschland und Frankreich mit Blick auf die Rechtsprechung des EuGH bis Polbud. (Zugl.: Leipzig, Univ., Diss., 2018.) - Berlin: Duncker & Humblot 2019. 200 S. (Studien zum vergleichenden Privatrecht. 5.)
Mapping Different Worlds of Eco-Welfare States
Attention towards topics such as environmental pollution, climate change, or biodiversity has strongly increased in the last years. The struggles to balance market powers and ecological sustainability somehow evoke memories of the early days of European welfare states, when social protection emerged as a means to prevent industrial capitalism from disruptive social tensions due to excessive social inequalities. In fact, social and environmental c…
Unravelling deservingness
Previous research suggests that European citizens share consistent attitudes towards the relative deservingness of different target groups of social policy, such as perceiving elderly people as most deserving, unemployed people as less deserving and immigrants as least deserving. Yet, it is unclear which criteria people apply when making these judgements. In this article, we explore the reasoning behind deservingness judgements. We analyse how fo…
The social legitimacy of the universal basic income from a social justice perspective
The universal basic income (UBI) has found its way into public debates and has prominent advocates across almost all political camps. In many debates, it is presented as a solution for the consequences of a large variety of current societal challenges, such as unemployment, over-education, ecological crises, gender inequality and issues related to digitalization and automatization. While UBI has been discussed broadly from an expert position, we …
Legitimizing Inequality
Do people in different countries understand and frame the principle of meritocracy differently? This question is the starting point for this cross-national analysis of the moral repertoires of meritocracy in four countries: Germany, Norway, Slovenia and the United Kingdom. The authors pursue a mixed methods approach, using data from the European Social Survey 2016 and qualitative data from group discussions. In these discussions, citizens openly …
Regimes, Social Risks and the Welfare Mix
Modern welfare regimes rest on a range of actors - state, market, family/households, employers and charities - but austerity programmes diminish the contribution of the state. While changes in this 'welfare mix' require support from the population, attitude studies have focused mainly on people's views on state responsibilities, using welfare regime theory to explain differences. This paper contributes to our understanding of the welfare mix by i…
Changing preferences towards redistribution
The article departs from the argument that research on welfare attitudes is, so far, dominated by large‐scale survey‐studies, which allow for generalizable insights into citizens' preferences and evaluations, but are necessarily limited in their ability to capture the dynamic and contextual aspects of attitude formation. In order to broaden the horizon of welfare attitudes' research, this article introduces a new qualitative method, namely delibe…
Unravelling deservingness
Previous research suggests that European citizens share consistent attitudes towards the relative deservingness of different target groups of social policy, such as perceiving elderly people as most deserving, unemployed people as less deserving and immigrants as least deserving. Yet, it is unclear which criteria people apply when making these judgements. In this article, we explore the reasoning behind deservingness judgements. We analyse how fo…
Legitimizing Inequality
Do people in different countries understand and frame the principle of meritocracy differently? This question is the starting point for this cross-national analysis of the moral repertoires of meritocracy in four countries: Germany, Norway, Slovenia and the United Kingdom. The authors pursue a mixed methods approach, using data from the European Social Survey 2016 and qualitative data from group discussions. In these discussions, citizens openly …
Local Worlds of Marketization – Employment Policies in G ermany, I taly and the UK Compared
The majority of the E uropean countries have experienced a turn towards activation policies during the last two decades ( S errano P ascual and M agnusson 2007; van B erkel and B orghi 2008; B onoli 2010; A urich 2011; G raziano 2009 and 2012). The interlinked aim to increase employment rates by integrating formerly excluded groups into the labour market requires new forms of governance and new structures of policy implementation. One of these po…
Varieties of green transitions’? Comparative welfare state research and the social dimension of green transitions
In the light of the climate crisis, ‘green transitions’ are inevitable to address the environmental harm caused by fossil capitalism. The article argues that the pathway of such green transitions is closely interrelated with welfare setups, as the answer to the questions ‘who wins, who loses; who supports, who opposes the green transition—and why?’ is strongly dependent on the welfare setup of a given economy. The welfare state not only stabilise…
Mapping the social dimension of the European Green Deal
The European Green Deal calls for various economic reforms that will deeply disrupt the social order of European societies. As the European Commission makes very clear in its communications on the EGD, societal support for the profound changes that will inevitably accompany a ‘green transition’ hinges on social inclusion of stakeholders and social groups. This article aims to identify the social policy instruments proposed by the EGD to address t…
The social legitimacy of the universal basic income from a social justice perspective
The universal basic income (UBI) has found its way into public debates and has prominent advocates across almost all political camps. In many debates, it is presented as a solution for the consequences of a large variety of current societal challenges, such as unemployment, over-education, ecological crises, gender inequality and issues related to digitalization and automatization. While UBI has been discussed broadly from an expert position, we …
Climate Crisis and Social Protection - From Worker Protection to Post-growth Transformation
The article discusses five literature strands’ approaches towards social protection systems in the context of climate crisis: Adaptive Social Protection, Just Transition, Green New Deal, Post-growth, and Eco-feminism. As we argue, these five strands are located on a spectrum between a green growth orientation and a green anti-capitalist orientation. Furthermore, they differ in terms of their problematisation of the climate crisis and have differe…
Regimes, Social Risks and the Welfare Mix
Modern welfare regimes rest on a range of actors - state, market, family/households, employers and charities - but austerity programmes diminish the contribution of the state. While changes in this 'welfare mix' require support from the population, attitude studies have focused mainly on people's views on state responsibilities, using welfare regime theory to explain differences. This paper contributes to our understanding of the welfare mix by i…
Changing preferences towards redistribution
The article departs from the argument that research on welfare attitudes is, so far, dominated by large‐scale survey‐studies, which allow for generalizable insights into citizens' preferences and evaluations, but are necessarily limited in their ability to capture the dynamic and contextual aspects of attitude formation. In order to broaden the horizon of welfare attitudes' research, this article introduces a new qualitative method, namely delibe…
Local Responses to the European Social Fund
Governance in the European Union has become increasingly complex and multi‐facetted in the last decades. The article argues that the ESF (European Social Fund) is a crucial example in this regard since it combines financial incentives, procedural requirements and programmatic conditions. In order to analyse local responses to this complex governance tool, the article deploys analytical tools from the Europeanization literature and builds on in‐de…
Stakeholder participation and policy integration in local social and employment policies
The majority of the European countries experienced a turn towards activation policies during the last decades. The aim of increasing employment rates of groups formerly excluded from the labour market has required closer links with training, family or social policies with employment policy. As a result of this, we can observe modifications also in regard to policy governance, particularly emphasizing the role of the local level in implementing in…
Setting the scene in Europe
This editorial argues for the importance of examining European social policy-making in relation to climate change from a global social policy perspective. It highlights that climate change significantly impacts social policy, both in cushioning its negative effects and in recognising how traditional welfare state models have contributed to ecological crises with severe inequalities between countries. The European Union, with its relatively advanc…
What and whom are family policies for? Unpacking the meaning of citizens’ support for family policy across Europe
The paper provides a comparative investigation into public attitudes to family policies. It shows that citizens’ support for family policies is diverse across different welfare regimes with respect to four countries belonging to distinct regimes: the United Kingdom, Germany, Norway and Slovenia. Using qualitative data, we unpack the ways individuals view the need for family policies, the rationale they use to explain their support for family poli…
Closer to the Market
Adding to vital debates in EU Studies about the executive power of European governance, this article analyses the influence of EU research funding in the social sciences. The standardization and enforcement of norms, principles, and language codes, we argue, play a crucial role in EU governance. Applying a mixed‐method approach, we show that mastery of the ‘EU language game’ does more than help scholars obtain EU funding; it also generates indivi…
The quest for solutions
Eco-social policies in a multilevel setup
This paper examines the intersection of eco-social policies and multilevel governance within the framework of the European Green Deal (EGD), focusing on Germany as a case study. We explore how German stakeholders employ the EGD as a framing tool for socio-political discourses aimed at addressing the social risks of the green transition by promoting (or not promoting) integrated social and ecological policies. Applying the ‘usages of Europe’ frame…
Introduction to the special issue
Green deservingness, green distinction, green democracy? Towards a political sociology of a contested eco-social consensus
Local Worlds of Marketization – Employment Policies in G ermany, I taly and the UK Compared
The majority of the E uropean countries have experienced a turn towards activation policies during the last two decades ( S errano P ascual and M agnusson 2007; van B erkel and B orghi 2008; B onoli 2010; A urich 2011; G raziano 2009 and 2012). The interlinked aim to increase employment rates by integrating formerly excluded groups into the labour market requires new forms of governance and new structures of policy implementation. One of these po…
Stakeholder participation and policy integration in local social and employment policies
The majority of the European countries experienced a turn towards activation policies during the last decades. The aim of increasing employment rates of groups formerly excluded from the labour market has required closer links with training, family or social policies with employment policy. As a result of this, we can observe modifications also in regard to policy governance, particularly emphasizing the role of the local level in implementing in…
Local Responses to the European Social Fund
Governance in the European Union has become increasingly complex and multi‐facetted in the last decades. The article argues that the ESF (European Social Fund) is a crucial example in this regard since it combines financial incentives, procedural requirements and programmatic conditions. In order to analyse local responses to this complex governance tool, the article deploys analytical tools from the Europeanization literature and builds on in‐de…
Changing preferences towards redistribution
The article departs from the argument that research on welfare attitudes is, so far, dominated by large‐scale survey‐studies, which allow for generalizable insights into citizens' preferences and evaluations, but are necessarily limited in their ability to capture the dynamic and contextual aspects of attitude formation. In order to broaden the horizon of welfare attitudes' research, this article introduces a new qualitative method, namely delibe…
Mapping Different Worlds of Eco-Welfare States
Attention towards topics such as environmental pollution, climate change, or biodiversity has strongly increased in the last years. The struggles to balance market powers and ecological sustainability somehow evoke memories of the early days of European welfare states, when social protection emerged as a means to prevent industrial capitalism from disruptive social tensions due to excessive social inequalities. In fact, social and environmental c…
Unravelling deservingness
Previous research suggests that European citizens share consistent attitudes towards the relative deservingness of different target groups of social policy, such as perceiving elderly people as most deserving, unemployed people as less deserving and immigrants as least deserving. Yet, it is unclear which criteria people apply when making these judgements. In this article, we explore the reasoning behind deservingness judgements. We analyse how fo…
The social legitimacy of the universal basic income from a social justice perspective
The universal basic income (UBI) has found its way into public debates and has prominent advocates across almost all political camps. In many debates, it is presented as a solution for the consequences of a large variety of current societal challenges, such as unemployment, over-education, ecological crises, gender inequality and issues related to digitalization and automatization. While UBI has been discussed broadly from an expert position, we …
Legitimizing Inequality
Do people in different countries understand and frame the principle of meritocracy differently? This question is the starting point for this cross-national analysis of the moral repertoires of meritocracy in four countries: Germany, Norway, Slovenia and the United Kingdom. The authors pursue a mixed methods approach, using data from the European Social Survey 2016 and qualitative data from group discussions. In these discussions, citizens openly …
Regimes, Social Risks and the Welfare Mix
Modern welfare regimes rest on a range of actors - state, market, family/households, employers and charities - but austerity programmes diminish the contribution of the state. While changes in this 'welfare mix' require support from the population, attitude studies have focused mainly on people's views on state responsibilities, using welfare regime theory to explain differences. This paper contributes to our understanding of the welfare mix by i…
Loose, Sven
Loose, Sven: Der grenzüberschreitende Formwechsel von Kapitalgesellschaften. Eine rechtsvergleichende Gesamtschau zur identitätswahrenden Unternehmensmobilität in Deutschland und Frankreich mit Blick auf die Rechtsprechung des EuGH bis Polbud. (Zugl.: Leipzig, Univ., Diss., 2018.) - Berlin: Duncker & Humblot 2019. 200 S. (Studien zum vergleichenden Privatrecht. 5.)
The Sustainable Welfare and Eco-Social Policy Network
Introduction to the special issue
Green deservingness, green distinction, green democracy? Towards a political sociology of a contested eco-social consensus
What and whom are family policies for? Unpacking the meaning of citizens’ support for family policy across Europe
The paper provides a comparative investigation into public attitudes to family policies. It shows that citizens’ support for family policies is diverse across different welfare regimes with respect to four countries belonging to distinct regimes: the United Kingdom, Germany, Norway and Slovenia. Using qualitative data, we unpack the ways individuals view the need for family policies, the rationale they use to explain their support for family poli…
Closer to the Market
Adding to vital debates in EU Studies about the executive power of European governance, this article analyses the influence of EU research funding in the social sciences. The standardization and enforcement of norms, principles, and language codes, we argue, play a crucial role in EU governance. Applying a mixed‐method approach, we show that mastery of the ‘EU language game’ does more than help scholars obtain EU funding; it also generates indivi…
Erwerbs- und Familienarbeit im Homeoffice? Innerfamiliale Arbeitsteilung in der Corona-Krise auf dem Prüfstand
Mit der COVID-19-Pandemie scheinen sich soziale Ungleichheiten zu verschärfen, sowohl weltweit als auch zwischen den Geschlechtern. In Bezug auf die innerfamiliale Arbeitsteilung werden unterschiedliche Thesen diskutiert – das Risiko der Retraditionalisierung auf der einen und die Chance der Modernisierung auf der anderen Seite. In diesem Beitrag verbinden und systematisieren wir die verschiedenen Stränge des wissenschaftlichen Diskurses und die …
Varieties of green transitions’? Comparative welfare state research and the social dimension of green transitions
In the light of the climate crisis, ‘green transitions’ are inevitable to address the environmental harm caused by fossil capitalism. The article argues that the pathway of such green transitions is closely interrelated with welfare setups, as the answer to the questions ‘who wins, who loses; who supports, who opposes the green transition—and why?’ is strongly dependent on the welfare setup of a given economy. The welfare state not only stabilise…
Climate Crisis and Social Protection - From Worker Protection to Post-growth Transformation
The article discusses five literature strands’ approaches towards social protection systems in the context of climate crisis: Adaptive Social Protection, Just Transition, Green New Deal, Post-growth, and Eco-feminism. As we argue, these five strands are located on a spectrum between a green growth orientation and a green anti-capitalist orientation. Furthermore, they differ in terms of their problematisation of the climate crisis and have differe…
Mapping the social dimension of the European Green Deal
The European Green Deal calls for various economic reforms that will deeply disrupt the social order of European societies. As the European Commission makes very clear in its communications on the EGD, societal support for the profound changes that will inevitably accompany a ‘green transition’ hinges on social inclusion of stakeholders and social groups. This article aims to identify the social policy instruments proposed by the EGD to address t…
Regulierung oder Responsibilisierung? – Zur Neuauflage von Klassen- und Kulturkompromiss in der Klimakrise
In der aktuellen Debatte zur Klimakrise wird die Rolle des Wohlfahrtsstaats zur Vergrößerung gesellschaftlicher Akzeptanz von Klimaschutzmaßnahmen zunehmend in den Vordergrund gerückt. Analysen qualitativer Fokusgruppendaten legen jedoch nahe, dass die Kernkonflikte im Klimaschutz weniger um spezifische Verteilungsfragen kreisen, sondern vielmehr um grundlegende gesellschaftspolitische Steuerungsfragen. Materielle und kulturelle Verteilungskonfli…
The Managerial Family? Family Care Work in Germany and Spain
This article engages with scholarly debates on the emergence of market logics in family life. By deploying qualitative data from couple interviews in Germany and Spain, we show how the existence of a so-called managerial family is salient among interviewees in both countries. Couples might introduce weekly family planning meetings or follow investment strategies when organizing childcare and housework. Drawing on the theoretical concept of moral …
Eco-social policies in a multilevel setup
This paper examines the intersection of eco-social policies and multilevel governance within the framework of the European Green Deal (EGD), focusing on Germany as a case study. We explore how German stakeholders employ the EGD as a framing tool for socio-political discourses aimed at addressing the social risks of the green transition by promoting (or not promoting) integrated social and ecological policies. Applying the ‘usages of Europe’ frame…
The Eco-Social Polity?
The devastating effects of climate change are undeniable. Fires rage and waters rise in every corner of the globe. In light of these changes to our planet, the issue of social and environmental wellbeing has gained prominent attention from both academia and policy makers. Scholarly research on the interaction between social and employment policy domains has flourished. Academics now reflect on the different aspects of environmental and social pro…
Eco-Social Polity
Navigating Eco‐Social Policymaking
In recent years, research on the integration between social and ecological policies has significantly expanded, highlighting the multiple ways in which these two domains interact. Concepts such as “just transition” and “sustainable welfare” have gained prominence as normative frameworks capturing these interconnections. However, despite the increasing scholarly attention, several important theoretical, conceptual, and empirical gaps remain, parti…
Political science (22 works) · Economics (18 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (16 works) · Law (12 works) · Politics (11 works) · Law (9 works) · Welfare (8 works) · Economic growth (6 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (6 works)