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Dr Karen M. Anderson PhD in Political Science, University of Washington (USA)

Associate Professor of Social Policy, Examinations Officer, Erasmus and Student Exchange Coordinator

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Dr Karen M. Anderson is Associate Professor of Social Policy within Social Sciences at the University of Southampton.

Karen M. Anderson is Associate Professor of Social Policy at the University of Southampton. She received her PhD in political science from the University of Washington (Seattle) and has held positions in political science at Radboud University Nijmegen (NL), in public administration at Leiden University (NL) and in sociology at the University of Twente (NL). Her research focuses on comparative social policy development, the interaction of labor market policy and social policy, and the impact of Europeanization on national welfare states. She is the author of Social Policy in the European Union (Palgrave, 2015) and the editor (with Ellen M. Immergut and Isabelle Schulze) of the Handbook of West European Pension Politics (Oxford University Press, 2007). Her work has also appeared in Comparative Political Studies, Comparative Politics, Zeitschrift für Sozialreform, West European Politics, Canadian Journal of Sociology, and the Journal of Public Policy.

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Karen Anderson is curently working on three externally funded research projects:

1. “Freedom of Choice in Occupational Pensions” with Lei Delsen, Radboud University Nijmegen). Funded by Stichting Instituut Gak

2. “The Paradox of Health Care Futures”, funded by NORFACE and part of a five country international research project.

3. “State, Risk, and Society (STARS)” project funded by the German Ministry for Education and Research the Hertie School of Governance. Project leader is Anke Hassel (Hertie School) and research partners are Waltraud Schelkle (LSE) and Deborah Mabbett (Birkbeck)

Erasmus and Student Exchange Coordinator

2009- Member of Editorial Board, Journal of European Social Policy.

2008- Member of Editorial Board, Journal for Labour Market Research (previously Zeitschrift für Arbeitsmarktforschung).

2013- Chairperson of Scientific Advisory Board, Institute for Labor Market and Employment Research (IAB), Bundesagentur für Arbeit, Nürnberg, Germany. Member since 2007.

2009- Member of Curatorium for The Institute for Labour Law and Industrial Relations in the European Community at the University of Trier, Germany.

Articles

Anderson, K. M. (2015). The politics of incremental change: institutional change in old-age pensions and health care in Germany. Journal for Labour Market Research, 48(2), 113-131. DOI: 10.1007/s12651-015-0180-y
Stepan, M., & Anderson, K. M. (2014). Pension reform in the European periphery: the role of EU reform advocacy. Public Administration and Development, 34(4), 320-331. DOI: 10.1002/pad.1690
Anderson, K. M., & Kaeding, M. (2013). European integration and pension policy change: variable patterns of Europeanization in Italy, the Netherlands and Belgium. British Journal of Industrial Relations. DOI: 10.1111/bjir.12030
Wierda-Boer, H., Gerris, J., Vermulst, A., Malinen, K., & Anderson, K. (2009). Combination strategies and work–family interference among dual-earner couples in Finland, Germany, and the Netherlands. Community, Work & Family, 12(2), 233-249. DOI: 10.1080/13668800902778991
Immergut, E. M., & Anderson, K. M. (2008). Historical institutionalism and West European politics. West European Politics, 31(1-2), 345-369. DOI: 10.1080/01402380701835165
Immergut, E., & Anderson, K. M. (2007). Entre Escila y Caribdis: gobiernos, votantes y politicas de pensiones. Panorama Social, (4), 7-20.
Anderson, K. M., & Lynch, J. (2007). Reconsidering seniority bias: aging, internal institutions, and union support for pension reform. Comparative Politics, 39(2), 189-208.
Anderson, K. M. (2004). Pension politics in three small states: Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands. The Canadian Journal of Sociology, 29(2), 289-312.
Anderson, K. M., & Snow, S. G. (2003). Forestalling the business veto: investment confidence and the rise of Swedish social democracy, 1932-1936. Social Science Quarterly, 84(1), 91-110. DOI: 10.1111/1540-6237.t01-1-8401006
Anderson, K. M., & Meyer, T. (2003). Social democracy, unions, and pension politics in Germany and Sweden. Journal of Public Policy, 23(1), 23-54. DOI: 10.1017/S0143814X03003027
Anderson, K. M. (2001). The politics of retrenchment in a social democratic welfare state: reform of Swedish pensions and unemployment insurance. Comparative Political Studies, 34(9), 1063-1091. DOI: 10.1177/0010414001034009005
Anderson, K. M. (2001). Wohlfahrtsstaat und Arbeitsmarkt in Schweden und den Niederlanden. Ergebnisse und Erfahrungen aktueller Reformen. Zeitschrift für Sozialreform, 4(Juli/August), 407-436.

Books

Anderson, K. M. (2015). Social policy in the European Union. (The European Union Series). Basingstoke, GB: Palgrave Macmillan.
Immergut, E. M., Anderson, K. M., & Schulze, I. (Eds.) (2007). The handbook of West European pension politics. Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press.

Book Chapters

Anderson, K. M. (2015). Pension reform in Europe. In S. Scherger (Ed.), Comparative Perspectives on Work Beyond Retirement Age Basingstoke, GB: Palgrave Macmillan.
Anderson, K. M., & Hassel, A. (2014). Pathways of change in coordinated market economies. Training regimes in Germany and the Netherlands. In A. Wren (Ed.), The Political Economy of the Service Transition (pp. 171-194). Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press.
Anderson, K. M. (2014). Pension policy. In J. Wright (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Science, Second edition London, GB: Elesevier.
Anderson, K. M. (2012). The Netherlands: reconciling labour market flexibility with security in old age. In M. Jessoula, & K. Hinrichs (Eds.), Labour Market Flexibility and Pension Reforms (pp. 203-230). Basingstoke, GB: Palgrave Macmillan.
Anderson, K. (2011). Occupational pensions in the Netherlands: adapting to demographic and economic change. In B. Ebbinghaus (Ed.), The Varieties of Pension Governance: Pension Privatization in Europe (pp. 292-317). Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199586028.001.0001
Anderson, K., & Oude Nijhuis, D. (2011). The development of the vocational training system in the Netherlands. In M. R. Busemeyer, & C. Trampusch (Eds.), The Political Economy of Collective Skill Formation (pp. 101-125). New York, US: Oxford University Press.
Anderson, K. M. (2011). Weathering the storm: consociational democracy and crisis management in the Netherlands. In Y. Kim, & G. Szell (Eds.), Economic Crisis and Social Integration (pp. 71-94). Frankfurt am Main, DE: Peter Lang.
Anderson, K. M. (2010). Promoting the multi-pillar model? The EU and the shift toward multi-pillar pension systems. In Y. Borgmann-Prebil, & M. Ross (Eds.), Promoting Solidarity in the Europen Union (pp. 216-234). Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press.
Anderson, K. (2009). The Church as nation? Religious factors in the development of the Swedish welfare state. In K. van Kersbergen, & P. Manow (Eds.), Religion, Class Coalitions, and Welfare States (pp. 210-235). (Cambridge Studies in Social Theory, Religion and Politics). Cambridge, GB: Cambridge University Press.
Anderson, K. M., Blomquist, P., & Immergut, E. (2008). Politics within markets: health care and pension policy in Sweden. In D. Beland, & B. Gran (Eds.), Social Policy Puzzles: Reconsidering the Public-Private Dichotomy for Health and Pension Policies (pp. 169-189). Basingstoke, GB: Palgrave Macmillan.
Anderson, K. M., & Rein, M. (2008). The evolution of the public-private mix in pensions: variable paths to solidarity in the Netherlands, Sweden and Denmark. In P. A. Kemp, K. van den Bosch, & L. Smith (Eds.), Social Protection in an Ageing World (pp. 65-86). (International Studies on Social Security; Vol. 13). Antwerp, BE: Intersentia.
Anderson, K. M., Kuipers, S., Schulze, S., & Van den Nouland, W. (2007). Belgium: linguistic veto players and pension reform. In E. M. Immergut, K. M. Anderson, & I. Schulze (Eds.), The Handbook of West European Pension Politics (pp. 297-346). Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press.
Anderson, K. M., & Rein, M. (2007). Common origins, different evolution, similar outcomes: new comparative observations on the welfare state. In C. Arza, & M. Kohli (Eds.), Pension Reform in Europe: Politics, Policies and Outcomes (pp. 132-154). (Routledge Studies in the Political Economy of the Welfare State). London, GB: Routledge.
Anderson, K. M., & Immergut, E. (2007). Introduction. In E. M. Immergut, K. M. Anderson, & I. Schulze (Eds.), The Handbook of West European Pension Politics (pp. 1-45). Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press.
Anderson, K. M., & Immergut, E. (2007). Sweden: after social democratic hegemony. In E. M. Immergut, K. M. Anderson, & I. Schulze (Eds.), The Handbook of West European Pension Politics (pp. 349-395). Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press.
Anderson, K. M. (2007). The Netherlands: political competition in a proportional system. In E. M. Immergut, K. M. Anderson, & I. Schulze (Eds.), The Handbook of West European Pension Politics (pp. 713-757). Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press.
Anderson, K. M., & Kaeding, M. (2006). Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg: increasingly cautious Europeans. In E. Zeff, & E. B. Pirro (Eds.), The European Union and the Member States (pp. 107-126). Denver, US: Lynne Rienner.
Anderson, K. M., Bonoli, G., & Shinkawa, T. (2006). Sweden: radical reform in a mature pension system. In Ageing and Pension Reform Around the World: Evidence from Eleven Countries (pp. 94-115). London, GB: Edward Elgar.
Anderson, K. M. (2002). Europeanisation and pension policy. In P. Pochet, & C. de la Porte (Eds.), Building Social Europe through the Open Method of Co-ordination (pp. 251-284). (Work & Society; Vol. 34). Brussels, BE: Peter Lang.
Anderson, K. M. (2001). Retreat from exceptionalism. Sweden in the EU. In E. E. Zeff, & E. B. Pirro (Eds.), The European Union and the Member States: Cooperation, Coordination and Compromise (pp. 285-304). Denver, US: Lynne Rienner.

Karen Anderson gives lectures and seminars in the following courses: Transformations of the Modern World; Policy & Politics of the Welfare State; and Research Skills.

Dr Karen M. Anderson
Sociology, Social Policy, Criminology University of Southampton Southampton SO17 1BJ United Kingdom

Email: K.M.Anderson@soton.ac.uk

Room Number:58/4037

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