The University of Oklahoma
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Robert Henry Cox

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Governance: An International Journal of Policy, Administration and Institutions

Itinera Institute

European Union Center

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Hester Hall 138
729 Elm Ave.
Norman, OK 73019

tel: +1 405 325 1584
fax: +1 405 325 7738
rhcox@ou.edu

Robert Henry Cox is Professor in the School of International and Area Studies at the University of Oklahoma and is coordinator for European Studies. He has been on the OU faculty since 1989. He also serves as Co-Editor for the journal Governance, and is the Co-Director of the European Union Center at OU.

Professor Cox' education includes a B.Phil. from Miami University, an M.A. in West European Studies from Indiana University and a Ph.D. in Political Science also from Indiana University.

Professor Cox teaches classes at the graduate and undergraduate levels in comparative politics, specifically focusing on European politics, comparative public policy and globalization.

Professor Cox's research focuses on the development and evolution of welfare states in advanced industrialized countries. Reflecting his interdisciplinary interests, his writings on the welfare state have explored the moral foundations of welfare programs, the politics of policy change, and the technical details of systems of taxation and social insurance. His publications have appeared in such journals as World Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Politics and Society, Governance, Journal of Social Policy, Publius, and many other academic journals. His first book is The Development of the Dutch Welfare State: From Workers' Insurance to Universal Entitlements. In 2011 he will publish two co-edited books. The first is co-edited with Daniel Beland and is called Ideas and Politics in Social Science Research. It will be published by Oxford University Press. The second is co-edited with Gary B. Cohen, Ben Ansell and Jane Gingrich, called Social Policy in the New Europe: The Experiences of Austria and the Smaller EU Members. It will be published by Berghahn Books in 2011.

Cox is a past President and member of the Board of Directors for the United Nations Association of the United States , Oklahoma City Chapter.  He is also Past-President and member of the Board of the Western College Program Alumni Association, and a member of the Executive Board for the IPSA research committee on the Structures of Governance. In addition, he has been honored as a Fulbright scholar to Denmark (1995), a Visiting Professor at Erasmus University, Rotterdam (1996), German Marshall Foundation Research Fellow (1998), and an invited guest to the European Union Visitors Programme (1999), and as a member of the Board of Experts for the Itinera Institute, a public policy think-tank based in Brussels, Belgium. He also has been the Co-Director of a Department of Education grant for Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Languages (UISFL).