Selected Publications

   Forthcoming in 2010

Ideas and Politics in Social Science Research, co-edited with Daniel Belánd, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2010.
            Preface and Table of Contents
            Introduction: Ideas and Politics, by Daniel Belánd and Robert Henry Cox

   Works in Progress

“How Globalization and the European Union are Changing European Welfare States,” in Gary B. Cohen, Robert H. Cox, Jane Gingrich and Benjamin W. Ansell, eds., Social Policy in the New Europe: The Experience of Austria and the Smaller EU Members, under review.

      Most Frequently Cited Publications

“The Path Dependence of an Idea: Why Scandinavian Welfare States Remain Distinct,” Social Policy and Administration, February 2004, 38(2): 204-219.

 “The Social Construction of an Imperative:  Why Welfare Reformed Happened in Denmark And The Netherlands, But Not in Germany,” World Politics, April 2001, 53(3): 463-498. Translated and reprinted as  “La Construcción Social de un Imperativo:  Por Qué Ocurrio la Reforma del Bienestar en Dinamarca y Holanda Pero no en Alemania.”  Zona Abierta, (Verano 2006) nr. 114-115.

“From Safety Net to Trampoline: Labor Market Activation in the Netherlands and Denmark.” Governance, October 1998, 11(4): 397-414. (lead article)

 “The Consequences of Welfare Reform: How Conceptions of Social Rights Are Changing.” Journal of Social Policy, January 1998, 26(1): 1-16.) reprinted in Stephan Leibfried and Steffen Mau, eds., Welfare States: Construction, Deconstruction, Reconstruction, Volume I. Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, UK, 2008.

The Development of the Dutch Welfare State: From Workers' Insurance to Universal Entitlement.  Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1993.