Linda J. Cook

Ph.D., Columbia University, 1985
Professor of Political Science, Brown University;
Center Associate, Davis Center

Contact Information
Department of Political Science
Brown University
Providence, R.I. 02912
401.863.2505
Linda_Cook@brown.edu

Research Interests
Politics of the Russian Federation and post-communist states of the CIS and Eastern Europe; comparative welfare states.

Current Projects
Post-Communist Welfare States: The Politics of Restructuring in Russia and Poland; Project on Russian governance: pension reform.

Selected Publications
The Russian Welfare State: Obstacles to Restructuring,” Post-Soviet Affairs,
Vol. 16, no. 4 (Oct.- Dec., 2000).

“Trade Unions, Management, and the State in Contemporary Russia,” in
Peter Rutland, ed., Business and the State in Contemporary Russia (John M. Olin Critical Issues Series, Westview, 2001).

Left Parties and Social Policy in Postcommunist Europe (ed., with Mitchell Orenstein and Marilyn Rueschemeyer) (Westview, 1999).

The Soviet Social Contract and Why It Failed: Welfare Policy and Workers' Politics from Brezhnev to Yeltsin (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993).