Welfare Capitalism in East Asia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Welfare Capitalism in East Asia write by I. Holliday. This book was released on 2003-09-18. Welfare Capitalism in East Asia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Discovering the Welfare State in East Asia
Discovering the Welfare State in East Asia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Discovering the Welfare State in East Asia write by Christian Aspalter. This book was released on 2002-03-30. Discovering the Welfare State in East Asia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Aspalter asserts that the belief that the development of high standard welfare states is primarily based on the ideology that pro-welfare, mostly leftwing, parties dominate welfare state literature and common thought in the Western world. Instead, in this examination of the welfare states of East Asia, Aspalter and his contributors show that they grew as naturally as they did in most Western countries, but that the reasons for this are other than pro-welfare ideologies. The five welfare states—Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore—are residual welfare states with low levels of welfare benefits and provision when compared to extended welfare states in Western Europe. While East Asian welfare states have experienced a hefty increase in welfare provision that has been regulated or provided by the state since the early 1970s, all five were set up and expanded by conservative governments with clear anti-welfare ideologies. The case studies provided by Aspalter and his contributors suggest that welfare state development in East Asia is caused to a large extent by social protests in general, and, for welfare in particular, by competition in democratic elections, and by the changing role of women. Social and demographic factors, such as the rise of the age structure of the population, do not cause welfare state expansion in the first place. They cause street protests, and street protests convince all kinds of governments—if they rule out the use of force—to implement social welfare. Moreover, politicians, who are afraid to lose elections, also take up welfare issues, which they would not do without electoral competition between candidates and parties. As Aspalter makes clear, governments do not have to wait until major protests occur or until they have lost an election in order to promote social welfare. The anticipation of such an event is sufficient. This book provides new insights on the development of welfare systems that will be of particular interest to scholars, students, and other researchers involved with social welfare, East Asian studies, and comparative politics.
Development, Democracy, and Welfare States
Development, Democracy, and Welfare States - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Development, Democracy, and Welfare States write by Stephan Haggard. This book was released on 2008-09-14. Development, Democracy, and Welfare States available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Comparing the welfare states of Latin America, East Asia and Eastern Europe, the authors trace the origins of social policy in these regions to political changes in the mid-20th century, and show how the legacies of these early choices are influencing welfare reform following democratization and globalization.
Handbook on East Asian Social Policy
Handbook on East Asian Social Policy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Handbook on East Asian Social Policy write by Misa Izuhara. This book was released on 2013-01-01. Handbook on East Asian Social Policy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Dramatic socio-economic transformations over the last two decades have brought social policy and social welfare issues to prominence in many East Asian societies. Since the 1990s and in response to national as well as global pressure, there have been substantial developments and reforms in social policy in the region but the development paths have been uneven. Until recently, comparative analysis of East Asian social policy tends to have focused on the established welfare state of Japan and the emerging welfare regimes of four Tiger Economies. Much of the recent debate indeed preceded Chinas re-emergence onto the world economy. In this context, this Handbook brings China more fully into the contemporary social policy debates in East Asia. Organised around five themes from welfare state developments, to theories and methodologies, to current social policy issues, the Handbook presents original research from leading specialists in the fields, and provides a fresh and updated perspective to the study of social policy. Providing a comparative international approach, this Handbook will appeal to academics, researchers and students at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels working in the fields of social policy, as well as policy makers and practitioners who are interested in social policy lessons from other societies.
Social Policy and Change in East Asia
Social Policy and Change in East Asia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Social Policy and Change in East Asia write by James Lee. This book was released on 2013-12-11. Social Policy and Change in East Asia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Social Policy and Change in East Asia is a collection of essays from a group of indigenous East Asian social policy researchers who met bi-annually to discuss social development issues. The book’s focus is the policy responses of respective East Asian government since the 2008 financial tsunami struck the region. Together, the essays in Social Policy and Change in East Asia argue that traditional social policy approach has failed to account for the problem of economic volatility and to devise policy measures that can promote long-term stability. Avoiding a static and Eurocentric approach, the authors of this book seek to unravel the meaning of the social development approach in various policy contexts. This book supports a dynamic understanding of social policy formulation that does not neglect the problem of economic turbulence in policy and planning.
