BOOKS

2015    Social Policy in the European Union. Basingstoke: Palgrave.

EDITED BOOKS

2021   The Handbook of Health Politics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Co-editors: Ellen M. Immergut, Camilla Devitt and Tamara Popic.

2007    The Handbook of Pension Politics in Western Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Co-editors: Ellen M. Immergut and Isabelle Schulze. Author or co-author of four chapters.

ARTICLES

2025 Wiß, Tobias, Fernandez, Juan, and Anderson, Karen M. “Attitudes towards the public-private mix for retirement income in Europe,” Journal of European Social Policy. https://doi.org/10.1177/09589287251345904

2025 Anderson, Karen M. and R. Kent Weaver. “”Pensions, Policy Drift, and Old-Age Poverty in Western Europe and North America.” Journal of European Social Policy. 35/3, 248-63. https://doi.org/10.1177/09589287241312109

2024 Fernandez, J., Wiss, T. and Anderson, K. “Issue Salience and Feedback Effects: The Case of Pension Reforms.” Journal of European Public Policy, 31/11, 3732-3760.

2020    Anderson, Karen M. and Paulette Kurzer. “The Politics of Mortgage Credit Expansion in the Small CMEs.” West European Politics. 43/2, pp. 366-389

2019    Anderson, Karen M. “Financialisation meets collectivisation: occupational pensions in Denmark, the Netherlands and Sweden, Journal of European Public Policy,” 26/4, 617-636, DOI: 10.1080/13501763.2019.1574309

2017    Anderson, Karen M. “Anpassung der Alterssicherungssysteme an das veränderte Marktumfeld. Ein internationaler Vergleich.” Deutsche Rentenversicherung, 72/4, pp. 440-456.

2015    Anderson, Karen M. “The Politics of Incremental Change: Institutional change in old-age pensions and health care in Germany.” Journal for Labour Market Research, 48/2, pp. 113-131.

2015    Anderson, K. and Kaeding, M. “European Integration and Pension Policy Change: Variable Patterns of Europeanization in Italy, the Netherlands and Belgium.” British Journal of Industrial Relations, 53/2, pp. 231-253.

2014    Stepan, M. and Anderson, K. “Pension Reform in the European Periphery: the Role of EU Reform Advocacy.” Public Administration and Development, 34/4, pp. 320-331.

2009    Wierda-Boer, H., Gerris, J., Vermulst, A., Malinen, K, and Anderson K. “Combination strategies and work-family interference among dual-earner couples in Finland, Germany, and the Netherlands.” Community, Work & Family, 12/2, pp. 233-249.

2008    Immergut, E. and Anderson, K. “Approaches: Historical Institutionalism and West European Politics.”West European Politics, 31/1-2, pp. 346-369.

2007    Anderson, K. and Lynch, J. F. “Reconsidering Seniority Bias: Aging, Internal Institutions, and Union Support for Pension Reform.”Comparative Politics, 39/2, pp. 189-208.

2004    Anderson, K. “Pension Politics in Three Small States: Denmark, Sweden, and the Netherlands,” Canadian Journal of Sociology,29/2, pp. 289-312.

2003    Anderson, K. and Meyer, T. “Social Democracy, Unions, and Pension Politics in Germany and Sweden,” Journal ofPublic Policy, 23/1, pp. 23-54.

2003    Anderson, K. and Snow, S. “Forestalling the Business Veto: Investor confidence and the Rise of the Swedish Social Democrats, 1932-1936,” Social Science Quarterly, 84/1, pp. 91-110.

2001    Anderson, K. “The Politics of Retrenchment in a Social Democratic Welfare State.  Reform of Swedish Pensions and Unemployment Insurance,” Comparative Political Studies, 34/9, 2001, pp. 1063-1091.

2001    Anderson, K. “Wohlfahrtsstaat und Arbeitsmarkt in Schweden und den Niederlanden. Ergebnisse und Erfahrungen aktueller Reformen“  [The Welfare State and the Labor Market in Sweden and the Netherlands: Recent Reform Experiences] Zeitschrift für Sozialreform, Heft 4, Juli/August, pp. 407-436.

CHAPTERS

2025    Anderson, Karen M. “Pension reform in ageing societies.” In Bernhard Ebbinghaus and Moira Nelson (eds.). Handbook on Welfare State Reform. Edward Elgar. In press.

2023    Anderson, Karen M. “Organised labour and funded pensions.” In Half a Century of Political Controversies Relating to Social Security Reforms for the Elderly. Nijmegen: Vantilt, pp. 69-84.

2021    Anderson, Karen M. & Ruud van Druenen. “The Netherlands.” In Ellen M. Immergut, Karen M. Anderson, Camilla Devitt, and Tamara Popic. The Handbook of Health Politics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 520-557. 

2021    Anderson, Karen M. & Elke Heins. “After the European elections and Covid-19: prospects for EU social policymaking.” In Vanhercke B., Ghailani D. and Spasova S. with Pochet P. (eds.) Social policy in the European Union: State of Play 2020. Brussels, European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) and European Social Observatory, pp 13-32. 

2019    Anderson, K. “Old-Age Pensions.” In Herbert Obinger and Manfred G. Schmidt (eds.), Handbuch Sozialpolitik. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, pp. 585-603.

2018    Anderson, K. “Decentring Pension Reform.” In R.A.W. Rhodes (ed.) Decentring Public Policy. London: Palgrave).

2015    Anderson, K. “Pension Reform in Europe.” In Simone Scherger (ed.) Paid Work Beyond Pension Age. Basingstoke: Palgrave, pp. 177-197.

2013    Anderson, K. and Hassel, A. “Pathways of Change in Coordinated Market Economies. Training regimes in Germany and the Netherlands.” In Anne Wren (ed.) The Political Economy of the Service Transition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 171-194.

2012    Anderson, K. “The Netherlands: Reconciling Labour Market Flexibility with Security in Old Age.” In Matteo Jessoula and Karl Hinrichs (eds.) Labour Market Flexibility and Pension Reforms.Basingstoke: Palgrave, pp. 203-230.

2012    Anderson, K. and Oude Nijhuis, D. “The Long Road to Collective Skill Formation in the Netherlands.”In Marius Busemeyer and Christine Trampusch (eds.), The Comparative Political Economy of Collective Skill Systems. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 101-125.

2011    Anderson, K.M. “Weathering the Storm: Consociational Democracy and Crisis Management in the Netherlands,” In Yongha Kim and György Széll (eds.), Economic Crisis and Social Integration. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, pp. 71-94.

2011    Anderson, K. “The Netherlands: Adapting to Demographic and Economic Change.” In Bernhard Ebbinghaus (ed.), The Varieties of Pension Governance: Pension Privatization in Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011, pp. 292-317.

2010    Anderson, K. “Promoting the Multi-Pillar Model? The EU and the Shift toward Multi-Pillar Pension Systems.” In Yuri Borgmann-Prebil and Malcom Ross (eds.) Developing Solidarity in the EU: Citizenship, Governance and New Constitutional Paradigms. Oxford University Press, pp. 216-234.

2009    Anderson, K. “The Church as Nation? Religious Factors in the Development of the Swedish Welfare State.” In Philip Manow and Kees van Kersbergen (eds.), Religion and the Welfare State. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 210-235.

2008    Anderson, K., Blomquist, P. and Immergut, E. “Politics within Markets: Health Care and Pension Policy in Sweden.” In Daniel Beland and Brian Gran (eds.), Social Policy Puzzles. Reconsidering the Public-Private Dichotomy for Health and Pension Policies. New York: Palgrave, pp. 169-189.

2007    Immergut, E. and Anderson, K. “Introduction.” In Ellen M. Immergut, Karen M. Anderson and Isabelle Schulze (eds.), TheHandbook of Pension Politics in Western Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp.1-45.

2007    Anderson, K. and Immergut, E. “Sweden: After Social Democratic Hegemony.” In Ellen M. Immergut, Karen M. Anderson and Isabelle Schulze (eds.), The Handbook of Pension Politics in Western Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 349-395.

2007    Anderson, K. “The Netherlands: Political Competition in a Proportional System.” In Ellen M. Immergut, Karen M. Anderson and Isabelle Schulze (eds.), The Handbook of Pension Politics in Western Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 713-757.

2007    Anderson, K., Kuipers, S. Schulze, S. and Van den Nouland, W. “Belgium: Linguistic Veto Players and Pension Reform.” In Ellen M. Immergut, Karen M. Anderson and Isabelle Schulze (eds.), The Handbook of Pension Politics in Western Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 297-346.

2007    Anderson, K. and Rein, M. “Common Origins, Different Evolution, Similar Outcomes: New comparative observations on the welfare state.” In Camila Arza and Martin Kohli (eds.), The Political Economy of Pension Reform: Politics, Policy Models and Outcomes in Europe. Routledge, pp. 132-154.

2006    Anderson, K. and Kaeding, M. “Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg: Increasingly Cautious Europeans.” In Eleanor Zeff and Ellen B. Pirro (eds.), The European Union and the Member States. Denver: Lynne Rienner, pp. 107-126.

2006    Anderson, K. and Meyer, T. “New Social Risks and Pension Reform in Sweden and Germany.” In Giuliano Bonoli and Klaus Armingeon (eds.), New Social Risks and Welfare State Reform in Europe. London: Routledge, pp. 171-191.

2005    Anderson, K. “Sweden: Radical Reform in a Mature Pension System.” In Giuliano Bonoli and Toshimitsu Shinkawa, (eds.), Ageing and Pension Reform around the World. Edward Elgar, pp. 94-115.

2004    Anderson, K. and Meyer, T. “Social Democracy and Pension Reform in Germany and Sweden.” In Martin Powell and Giuliano Bonoli, (eds.), Social Democratic Party Policies in the 1990s. London: Routledge, pp. 171-192.

2002    Anderson, K. “Europeanisation and Pension Policy.” In Philippe Pochet and Caroline de la Porte (eds.), Building Social Europe through the Open Method of Co-ordination. Brussels: Peter Lang, pp. 251-284.

2001    Anderson, K. “Retreat From Exceptionalism. Sweden in the EU.” In Eleanor E. Zeff and Ellen B. Pirro (eds.), The European Union and the Member States: Cooperation, Coordination and Compromise. Denver: Lynne Rienner, pp. 285-304.