SPECIAL ISSUES
Mok, K.H., Kühner, S. and Yeates, N. (2017). Managing Welfare Expectations and Social Change: Policy Responses in Asia, Social Policy & Administration, 51(6).
Mok. K. H. and Kühner, S. (2017). Managing Welfare Expectations and Social Change: Policy Transfer in Asia (Introduction to Special Issue), Journal of Asian Public Policy, 10(1).
Kühner, S., Devine, J. and Nakray, K. (2015). Meeting Emerging Global Policy Challenges: Positioning Social Policy Between Development and Growth?, Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy, 31(2).
Hudson, J. and Kühner, S. (2013). Qualitative Comparative Analysis and Applied Public Policy Analysis: New Applications of Innovative Methods, Policy and Society, 32(4).
JOURNAL ARTICLES
Yuda, T. K. & Kühner, S. (2026). Between Crisis and Reform: Developing A Causal Mechanism of Indonesian Healthcare Reform with Process Tracing. International Journal of Sociology & Social Policy (Ahead of Print).
Dejene, K. Z. & Kühner, S. (2026). Intersectional Dimensions of Stigma in Neglected Tropical Diseases: A Systematic Review of Evidence and Implications for Equity-based Health Policy. BMC Public Health, 26(1), 944.
Yang, N. & Kühner, S. (2026). From Policy to Parenthood: From Social Policy to Parenthood: Insights From a Factorial Survey in Northeast China. Social Policy & Administration, 60(5), 888-903.
Chen, X., & Kühner, S. (2026). Digital Inequities and Well-being in Middle Childhood During COVID-19: Testing the Third-Level Divide Across 18 Societies, Journal of Children and Media, 20(2), 323-343.
Yang, N. & Kühner, S. (2025). From Productivism to Post-Productivism: Unpacking the Socio-Economic Conditions for Welfare Development in Six East Asian Economies, Political Studies (Online First).
Amoah, P., Kühner, S., & Oladosu, A. O. (2026). Social Protection Responses in Times of Distress in Low- and Middle-income Countries: A Scoping Review and Research Agenda, in: Journal of Asian Public Policy, 19, 3, 983-1102.
Kühner, S., & Chou, K. L. (2025). Categories of Need, Welfare Stigma, and Their Combined Effect on Non-take-up of Targeted Income Support in Hong Kong, Journal of Poverty and Social Justice, 33(2), 173-18.
Mumtaz, Z., & Kühner, S. (2025). Towards a Theorization of the Global Community Welfare Regime: Depicting Four Ideal Types of the Community’s Role in Welfare Provision, Journal of European Social Policy, 35 (2), 189-209.
Chen, X., & Kühner, S. (2025). Life Stressors, Social Support, and Children’s Subjective Well-being During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence From a Cross-national Survey of 20 Societies, Child Indicators Research, 18, 905-936 (2025).
Kühner, S. & Chou, K. L. (2023). To Claim or Not to Claim: Investigating Non-Take-Up of Welfare Schemes Targeting Hong Kong Older Adults and the Stigma Attached to Them, Journal of Social Policy, 5(1), 100-120.
Kühner, S. (2023). Measuring ‘What?’ and ‘How?’ Welfare Development and the Dependent Variable Problem within East Asian Social Policy Analysis, Melbourne Asia Review, Edition 14, June 2023.
Kühner, S., Hong, I., Ketola, M. & Roumpakis, A. (2023). Editors’ Introduction: Ten years of the Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy (2013-2022)—Taking Stock and Charting A Route Forward, Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy (First View).
Addae, E., Kühner, S. & Lau, K.W.M. (2023). Social Context of School Satisfaction among Primary and Secondary School Children in Hong Kong, Children and Youth Services Review (First View).
Addae, E. & Kühner, S. (2022). How Socioeconomic Status and Family Social Capital Matter for the Subjective Well-being of Young People: Implications for the Child and Family Welfare Policy in Ghana, Journal of Social Policy, 51(4), 876-899.
Yuda, T. K & Kühner, S. (2022). Bringing Indonesia into the global welfare regime debate: A literature review and future research agenda, Asian Social Work & Policy Review, 17(2), 103-114.
Choi, Y. J., Kühner, S., & Shi, S. J. (2022). From “New Social Risks” to “COVID Social Risks:” The Challenges for Inclusive Society in South Korea, Hong Kong, and Taiwan Amid the Pandemic, Policy and Society, 41(2), 260-274.
Kühner, S., Lau, M., Jiang, J., & Wen, Z. (2021). Personal Income, Local Communities, and Happiness in a Rich Global City: Evidence from Hong Kong, Journal of Asian Public Policy, 14(3), 314-332.
Kühner, S., Lau, M., & Addae, A. E. (2021). The Mediating Role of Social Capital in the Relationship between Hong Kong Children’s Socioeconomic Status and Subjective Well-being, Child Indicators Research, 14, 1881-1909 (2021).
Kühner, S., Jiang, J., Lau, M., & Wen (2021). Labour Market Experience, Educational Attainment, and Self-Reported Happiness: Crowding-Out among Young People in Hong Kong?, Journal of Education and Work, 34(3), 275-291.
Yang, N. & Kühner, S. (2020). Beyond the Limits of the Productivist Regime: Capturing Three Decades of East Asian Welfare Development with Fuzzy Sets’, Social Policy and Society, 19(4), 613-627.
Kühner, S. & Chou, K. L. (2020). The Politics of MPF Reform: Lessons from Public Attitudes in Hong Kong, Social Policy and Society, 19(3), 414-430.
Yu, S., Chau, R. & Kühner, S. (2019). Defamilisation and Familisation Risks, Adult Worker Models, and Pro-employment/Decommodification Measures for Women: The Case of Hong Kong, Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy, 35(2), 194-210.
Kühner, S. & Chou, K. L. (2019). Poverty Alleviation, Coverage and Fiscal Sustainability: Investigating the Effect of a New Social Pension in Hong Kong, International Journal of Social Welfare, 28(1), 89-99.
Kühner, S. (2018). Partisan Ideology, Veto Players and Their Combined Effect on Productive and Protective Welfare Policy: How the Left Still Matters? Policy Studies, 39(2), 165-187.
Mok, K.H., Kühner, S. & Yeates, N. (2017). Managing Welfare Expectations and Social Change: Policy Responses in Asia (Introduction to Regional Issue), Social Policy & Administration, 51(6), 845-856.
Mok. K.H., Kühner, S. & Huang, G. (2017). The Productivist Construction of Selective Welfare Pragmatism in China, Social Policy & Administration, 51(6), 876-897.
Kühner, S. & Nakray, K. (2017). India’s Emerging Social Policy Paradigm: Productive, Protective or What?, Journal of Asian Public Policy, 10(1), 40-56.
Mok. K. H. & Kühner, S. (2017). Managing Welfare Expectations and Social Change: Policy Transfer in Asia (Introduction to Special Issue), Journal of Asian Public Policy, 10(1), 1-7.
Kühner, S., Devine, J. & Nakray, K. (2015). Meeting Emerging Global Policy Challenges: Positioning Social Policy Between Development and Growth? (Introduction to Special Issue), Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy, 31(2), 95-99.
Kühner, S. (2015). Analysing the Productive and Protective Dimensions of Welfare in the Asia-Pacific: Pathways Towards Human Development and Income Equality?, Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy, 31(2), 151-173. [Online Appendix .xlsx]
Hudson, J., Kühner, S. & Yang, N. (2014). Productive Welfare, the East Asian ‘Model’ and Beyond: Placing Welfare Types in Greater China into Context, Social Policy and Society, 13(2), 301-315.
Hudson, J. & Kühner, S. (2013). Beyond Indices: The Potential of Fuzzy Set Ideal Type Analysis for Cross-National Analysis of Policy Outcomes, Policy and Society, 32(4), 303-3
Hudson, J. & Kühner, S. (2013). Qualitative Comparative Analysis and Applied Public Policy Analysis: New Applications of Innovative Methods (Introduction to Special Issue), Policy and Society, 32(4), 279-287.
Hudson, J. & Kühner, S. (2012). Analyzing the Productive and Protective Dimensions of Welfare: Looking Beyond the OECD, Social Policy and Administration, 46(1), 35-60.
Kühner, S. (2010). Do Party Governments Matter After All? Executive Ideology, Constitutional Structures and Their Combined Effect on Welfare State Change, Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice, 12(4), 395-415.
Hudson, J. & Kühner, S. (2010). Beyond the Dependent Variable Problem: The Methodological Challenges of Capturing Productive and Protective Dimensions of Social Policy, Social Policy and Society, 9(2), 167-179.
Hudson, J. & Kühner, S. (2009). Towards Productive Welfare? A Comparative Analysis of 23 OECD Countries, Journal of European Social Policy, 19(1), 34-46.
Hudson, J., Kühner, S. & Hwang, J. (2008). Between Ideas, Institutions and Interests: Analyzing Third Way Welfare Reform Programmes in Germany and the UK, Journal of Social Policy, 37(2), 207-230.
Kühner, S. (2008). The Quantitative Dimensions of Welfare State Change: Macro-Statistical Reform Trajectories Across 21 OECD Countries (1980-2001) (in Chinese), Journal of Public Administration, 1(4), 31-57.
Kühner, S. (2007). ESPAnet/JESP Doctoral Researcher Prize Paper: Country-level Comparisons of Welfare State Change Measures: Another Facet of the Dependent Variable Problem within the Comparative Analysis of the Welfare State?, Journal of European Social Policy, 17(1), 5-18.