"New Directions in Political Sociology"

With this special issue of PACO we try to contribute to setting some new directions in political sociolo-gy. In particular, Virginie Guiradon focuses on the new frontiers of citizenship in a multicultural Europe, Do¬natella della Porta on the cycles of protest and the consolidation of democracy, Hans-Joerg Trenz and Asimina Michailidou on European Integration, democracy and crisis in a mass media perspective, Carlo Ruzza on the ideology of New Public Management and associational representation in the context of the glo¬bal financial crisis, Ettore Recchi and Justyna Salamońska on the important topic of the European identity in the context of the Euro-Crisis, Juan Dìez Medrano on the individual and collective responses to crisis by providing an analytical framework for the study of social resilience, Klaus Eder on the so-called paradox of political participation that can equally produce civil and uncivil outcomes. The issue will be concluded with my article on the logical structures of comparison in social and political research.