Steffen Mau

SAM_1119Steffen Mau is Professor of Political Sociology at the University of Bremen. He graduated from the Free University in Berlin and received his PhD from the European University Institute in Florence. He works in the fields of comparative welfare research, social inequality, and Eu­ropean integration. He has published widely on citizens’ attitudes towards the welfare state and on the relations between welfare state institutions and public support.

His more recent work examines the impact of Europeanization on social inequalities and the emergence of new social cleavages within the European social space.

A selection of recent publications includes:

  • Steffen Mau (2012): Lebenschancen. Wohin driftet die Mittelschicht? Berlin: edition suhrkamp
  • Steffen Mau/Heike Brabandt/Lena Laube/Christof Roos (2012): Liberal States and the Freedom of Movement: Selective Borders, Unequal Mobility. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
  • Steffen Mau/Roland Verwiebe (2010): European Societies. Mapping Structure and Change. Bristol: Policy Press
  • Steffen Mau (2010): Social Transnationalism. Lifeworlds beyond the Nation State. London/New York: Routledge

Personal website: http://www.smau.gsss.uni-bremen.de/index.php?id=mau