1st Edition
Pathways to State Welfare in Korea Interests, Ideas and Institutions
By Gyu-Jin Hwang
Copyright 2006
204 Pages
by
Routledge
204 Pages
by
Routledge
204 Pages
by
Routledge
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Why has Korean social policy developed differently from that of other East Asian countries? While in many respects Korea can be compared with Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore, where economic development has been the chief priority of state action, Korea has also implemented extensive welfare reform, expanding its welfare provision even under recent conditions of economic downturn. Gyu-Jin Hwang... Read more
Contents: Introduction; Analytical foundations: interests, ideas, and institutions; Public assistance: from the provision of benefits to the formulation of rights; National Pensions: from an instrument of growth to the object of distrust; National Health Insurance: from segmentation to greater equality; Employment insurance: from structural adjustment to social consensus; Conclusions: pathways to State welfare; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Gyu-Jin Hwang at the Department of Sociology and Social Policy, The University of Sydney, Australia.
'Clearly written and admirably researched, Hwang's impressive analysis of the growth of state welfare in Korea is a model of quality comparative social policy.' J.S. Ditch, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research & Consultancy), Northumbria University, UK 'Hwang offers an engaging, historically rooted, analysis of welfare state development in Korea. In so doing he skilfully illustrates the complex interplay between ideas, interests and institutions that is at the heart of the policy process and provides us with a rich theoretical analysis of the forces that propel social policy change.' John Hudson, University of York, UK ’...offers an interesting analysis of the development of social policy programmes in South Korea and the politics of implementing them.’ Journal of Comparative Asian Development
