Robert Henry Cox is a political scientist and was the first Director of the School of International and Area Studies at the University of Oklahoma. The last six years, he has been Book Review Editor for the journal Governance.

Cox has been employed at the present university since 1989, and is an Associate Professor in the School of International and Area Studies with a joint appointment in Political Science. He is a fiery soul with several interdisciplinary interests.

Education

• Ba Phil. from Miami University
• MSC, Indiana University, in West European Studies
• PhD, Indiana University, in Political Science

Teaching

• Teaches at graduate and undergraduate levels. Comparative politics, emphasisis on European Politics

Research

• Development and evolution of welfare states in advanced industrialized countries moral foundations of welfare programs
• Politics of policy change
• Technical details of systems of taxation and social insurance

Publications

Articles in:

• Journal of World Politics
• Comparative Political Studies
• Politics and Society, Governance
• Journal of Social Policy, Publius

Books

• The Development of the Dutch Welfare State: From Workers' Insurance to Universal Entitlements.

Honorations

• Fulbright scholar to Denmark (1995)
• Visiting Professor at Erasmus University, Rotterdam (1996)
• German Marshall Foundation Research Fellow (1998)
• Guest to the European Union Visitors Programme (1999)

• Co-Director of OU's European Union Center and the Co-Director of a Department of Education grant for Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Languages (UISFL)