Stein Kuhnle

is Professor in Comparative Politics, University of Bergen, and Fellow of Hertie School of Governance, Berlin, where he served as Professor of Comparative Social Policy, 2006-2013. Kuhnle has published widely in the field of comparative welfare state studies. His publications include: Survival of the European Welfare State (ed.; Routledge, 2000); Modernizing the Korean Welfare State (ed. with Ramesh Mishra, Neil Gilbert and Kyungbae Chung; Transaction Books, 2004); Normative Foundations of the Welfare State: The Nordic Experience (ed. with Nanna Kildal; Routledge, 2005); and Reshaping Welfare Institutions in China and the Nordic Countries (ed. with Pauli Kettunen and Yuan Ren) Shanghai: Fudan University Press, 2014, Chinese edition; Helsinki, NordWel, University of Helsinki, 2014, English edition.