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The East Asian Welfare Model Welfare Orientalism and the State
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Routledge
224 Pages
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Routledge
224 Pages
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Routledge
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For many politicians and observers in the West, East Asia has provided a broad range of positive images of the state's intervention in society. Neoliberals grew excited by popular welfare systems that cost little in expenditure and bureaucracy. Social-democrats thought they had found a model for social cohesion and equality. In fact the reality in East Asia is rather different from these... Read more
PART I An overview of the study 1 Welfare Orientalism and the search for an East Asian welfare model PART II An overview of East Asian welfare systems 2 Democracy and the politics of social welfare: a comparative analysis of welfare systems in East Asia PART III Country case studies 3 Welfare and governance: public housing under Singapore’s party-state 4 The South Korean National Pension Programme: fulfilling its promise? 5 Can we afford it? The development of National Health Insurance in Taiwan 6 The ‘Japanese-style welfare state’ and the delivery of personal social services 7 The making of social policy in Hong Kong: social welfare development in the 1980s and 1990s 8 Social security reforms in China: towards an East Asian model?
Biography
Roger Goodman is a Lecturer in the Social Anthropology of Japan and Fellow of St Antony’s College, University of Oxford. Gordon White, who died suddenly on 1 April 1998, was Professorial Fellow in Politics and Development Studies, University of Sussex. Huck-ju Kwon is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Public Administration, Sung Kyun Kwan University, Seoul, Korea.
