Comparative Social Policy

Books

Managing Welfare Expectations and Social Change Policy Transfer in Asia      

Mok, K. H. and Kühner, S. (eds.) (2018) Managing Welfare Expectations and Social Change: Policy Transfer in Asia, Abingdon/New York: Routledge.

Hudson, J., Kühner, S. and Lowe, S.  (2015) The Short-Guide to Social Policy, Second Edition, Bristol: Policy Press.

Hudson, J., Kühner, S. and Lowe, S.  (2011) The Short-Guide to Social Policy (Korean Translation), Seoul, South Korea: Press of Sharing House.

Hudson, J., Kühner, S. and Lowe, S.  (2008) The Short-Guide to Social Policy, First Edition, Bristol: Policy Press.

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

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).

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.

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.

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) 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.

Book Chapters/Reports

    Managing Welfare Expectations and Social Change Policy Transfer in Asia     Social Policy Review 27         

Kühner, S. & Shi, S. J. (2023) Diversity of Institutional Change in East Asian Social Investment Policy: The Cases of Hong Kong and Taiwan, in: Izuhara, M. (ed.) Research Agendas for East Asian Social Policy. London: Edward Elgar Publishers.

Koehler, G., Kühner, S. & Neff, D. (2021) Social Policy Development and Its Obstacles: An Analysis of the South Asian Welfare Geography During and After the ‘Social Turn’, in: Zafarullah, H. and Huque, A. S. (eds.) Handbook of Development Policy. London: Edward Elgar Publishers.

Kühner, S., Nakray, K. & Neff, D. (2021) India’s Social Policy Response to Covid-19:
Temporary Relief in a Rigid Welfare Landscape, in: Global Dynamics in Social Policy CRC 1342: Covid-19 Social Policy Response Series. Germany: University of Bremen.

Kühner, S. & Nakray, K. (2018) India’s Emerging Social Policy Paradigm: Productive, Protective or What?, in: Mok, K. H. and Kühner, S. (eds.) Managing Welfare Expectations and Social Change: Policy Transfer in Asia, Abingdon/New York: Routledge.

Mok, K. H. & Kühner, S. (2018) Introduction: Managing Welfare Expectations and Social Change: Policy Transfer in Asia, in: Mok, K. H. and Kühner, S. (eds.) Managing Welfare Expectations and Social Change: Policy Transfer in Asia, Abingdon/New York: Routledge.

Kühner, S. (2017) Convergence of Government Ideology in an Era of Competition: An Empirical Analysis Using Comparative Manifesto Data, in Horsfall, D. and Hudson, J. (eds.) Social Policy in an Era of Competition: From Global to Local Perspectives, Bristol: Policy Press.

Richardson, D., Hudson, J., Kühner, S., Frey, V. & Patana, P. (2015) Comparing The Effects Of Cash Benefits And In-Kind Childcare Services On Family Outcomes, OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Paper, Paris: OECD.

Kühner, S. (2015) The Dependent Variable Problem within the Comparative Analysis of the Welfare State Revisited: What If We Waited a Little Longer?, Social Policy Review 27: Analysis and Debate in Social Policy, Bristol: Policy Press. [SOCX-Update-8-15 .xlsx]

Hudson, J. & Kühner, S. (2014) Analyzing the Productive Dimension of Welfare: Looking Beyond Greater China, in Mok, K. H. and Lau, M. (eds.) Welfare Regimes in Transition: Managing Social Change and Social Policy in Greater China, Routledge Research on Public and Social Policy in Asia, Milton Park: Routledge.

Kühner, S. (2012) Welfare Retrenchment under Left and Right Government Leadership: Towards a Consolidated Framework?, Social Policy Review 24: Analysis and Debate in Social Policy, Bristol: Policy Press.

Hudson, J. & Kühner, S. (2011) Tiptoeing Through Crisis? Re-evaluating the German Model in Light of the Global Recession, in Farnsworth, K. and Irving, Z. (eds.) Social Policy in Challenging Times. Economic Crisis and Welfare Systems, Bristol: Policy Press.

Hudson, J. & Kühner, S. (2011) Analyzing the Productive and Protective Dimensions of Welfare: Looking Beyond the OECD, Compasss Working Paper WP2011-63.

Hudson, J. & Kühner, S. (2011) Analyzing the Productive Dimensions of Welfare: Looking Beyond East Asia, in Hwang, G-J (ed.) New Welfare States in East Asia: Global Challenges and Restructuring. London: Edward Elgar.

Hudson, J. & Kühner, S. (2008) The Challenges of Classifying Welfare State Types: Capturing the Productive and Protective Dimensions of Social Policy, in Gerovska Mitev, M. (ed.) Reframing Social Policy: Actors, Dimensions and Reforms. Friedrich Ebert Stiftung: Skopje.

Miscellaneous 

Kühner, S. (2020) Understanding Social Policy Divergence in East Asia, The Social Policy Blog, May 11 2020.

Kühner, S. & Nakray. K. (2017) India’s Emerging Social Policy Paradigm: Productive, Protective or What?, Policy and Politics Journal Blog, 22 February 2017.

Bradshaw, J. & Kühner, S. (2015) Narratives of Knowing in Social Policy, University of York, UK. [Full Text .pdf] [JSP 08-13 Survey .xls] 

Kühner, S. (2015) Comparative Welfare Reform Dataset, 1960-2010, Vol. 2, University of York, UK.

Kühner, S. (2012) Crisis Responses and Crisis Recovery. The UN Social Protection Floor Initiative and the ILO Social Protection Floor Recommendation in Focus, Policy World, UK Social Policy Association Newsletter, Summer 2012, Social Policy Association.

Kühner, S. (2007) Comparative Welfare Reform Dataset, 1960-2001, Vol. 1, University of York, UK.

Behrendt, C., Kühner, S., Hagemejer, K., & Bonnet, F. (2006) Old-age Pension Coverage in Sub-Saharan Africa: Methodological Considerations and Preliminary Findings from the ILO Social Security Inquiry, Unpublished ILO Working Paper (Geneva).

Kühner, S. (2006) From a ‘Divided Labour Market’ Towards a ‘Divided Society’ in Germany?, Policy World, UK Social Policy Association Newsletter, Spring 2006, Social Policy Association.