Author : I. Holliday
Publisher : Springer
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 33,50 MB
Release : 2003-09-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0230597564
Social Policy has been a key dimension of dynamic economic growth in East Asia's 'little tigers' and is also a prominent strand of their responses to the financial crisis of the late 1990s. This systematic comparative analysis of social policy in the region focuses on the key sectors of education, health, housing and social security. It sets these sectoral analyses in wider contexts of debates about developmental states, the East Asian welfare model and globalization.
Author : Mason M. S. Kim
Publisher : Springer
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 39,53 MB
Release : 2015-10-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1137471859
The author aims to develop conceptual refining and theoretical reframing of the productivist welfare capitalism thesis in order to address a set of questions concerning whether and how productivist welfarism has experienced both continuity and change in East Asia.
Author : James Lee
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 28,47 MB
Release : 2010-06-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0739146661
The Crisis of Welfare in East Asia adopts a unique and critical perspective on contemporary social welfare policies in East Asia. This edited volume reflects on current welfare theories and challenges the dominant productivist ideology that overemphasizes the influence of work and family. James Lee and Kam-Wah Chan bring together authors from different social policy domains to provide an updated assessment of inadequacies and limitations in current social policies as well as the problematic theories guiding them. The authors demystify the so-called 'East Asian Welfare Model' and reengage themselves in the identification of an appropriate welfare ideology, which includes a selective integration of social policy and economic development. The Crisis of Welfare in East Asia is a dynamic and enlightening read that will interest students of public policy and those interested in welfare capitalism.
Author : M. Ramesh
Publisher : Springer
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 31,75 MB
Release : 2000-02-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 023051281X
This is the only in-depth study of social policies in Southeast Asia. It compares social security, health, and education policies in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. After describing the policies and assessing their adequacy and equity implications, it examines the forces that have shaped them. It concludes that social programs (except for primary education) in the region are both inadequate and inequitable. It argues that the reason for this is political rather than cultural or socio-economic.
Author : Gyu-Jin Hwang
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 43,36 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1849807531
The fast changing economic climate is creating substantial pressure for welfare state restructuring worldwide. Yet the discussion regarding challenges faced and the responses required has been confined to the 'standard welfare states' in the West. This book examines whether these challenges also apply to the countries in the East, whether these countries have generated different responses to their Western counterparts, and whether they have undergone a process of regime transformation while responding to these pressures. Comparative in approach, this book offers lively discussion on the new social challenges faced in East Asia following the unprecedented scale of the recent global financial crisis. It reaches beyond policy descriptions to offer more systematic analyses of welfare restructuring in the region in relation to the fast changing global economic order. By examining the dynamics of welfare state restructuring both in terms of continuity and change, it explores intensified impacts of global restructuring of welfare and the nature of welfare state adaptation in the region.
Author : Marc Haufe
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 22,19 MB
Release : 2007-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3638717976
Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2005 in the subject Sociology - Social System, Social Structure, Class, Social Stratification, grade: 1,7, http: //www.uni-jena.de/ (Institut f r Soziologie), 69 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: This work analyses the specific structural characteristics and development specialities of East Asian welfare states. In a historical, qualitative and quantitative comparison of welfare development in East Asia and Southern Europe the East Asian "tigers" (despite all intraregional differences) are described as 'welfare societies without welfare state', The decisive foundation of this kind of welfarism is a "Confucian productivism".
Author : Margarita Estevez-Abe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 17,16 MB
Release : 2008-07-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1139471929
This book explains how postwar Japan managed to achieve a highly egalitarian form of capitalism despite meager social spending. Estevez-Abe develops an institutional, rational-choice model to solve this puzzle. She shows how Japan's electoral system generated incentives that led political actors to protect various groups that lost out in market competition. She explains how Japan's postwar welfare state relied upon various alternatives to orthodox social spending programs. The initial postwar success of Japan's political economy has given way to periods of crisis and reform. This book follows this story up to the present day. Estevez-Abe shows how the current electoral system renders obsolete the old form of social protection. She argues that institutionally Japan now resembles Britain and predicts that Japan's welfare system will also come to resemble Britain's. Japan thus faces a more market-oriented society and less equality.
Author : Alan Walker
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 27,63 MB
Release : 2005-03-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1861345526
This text puts the spotlight on the Chinese and Sout-East Asian welfare systems, providing and up-to-date assessment of their character and development. In particular it examines the underlying assumptions of these systems and how the processes of globalisation are impacting on them.
Author : Myoung-Shik Kim
Publisher :
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 35,70 MB
Release : 2013
Category : East Asia
ISBN :
Author : Ian Gough
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 40,75 MB
Release : 2004-02-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780521834193
Written by a team of internationally respected experts, this book explores the conditions under which social policy, defined as the public pursuit of secure welfare, operates in the poorer regions of the world. Social policy in advanced capitalist countries operates through state intervention to compensate for the inadequate welfare outcomes of the labour market. Such welfare regimes cannot easily be reproduced in poorer regions of the world where states suffer problems of governance and labour markets are imperfect and partial. Other welfare regimes therefore prevail involving non-state actors such as landlords, moneylenders and patrons. This book seeks to develop a conceptual framework for understanding different types of welfare regime in a range of countries in Asia, Latin America and Africa and makes an important contribution to the literature by breaking away from the traditional focus on Europe and North America.
