Buch, Englisch, 82 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 134 g
Buch, Englisch, 82 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 134 g
Reihe: Elements in Politics and Society in East Asia
ISBN: 978-1-108-81479-9
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
During the postwar period, Japan, Taiwan and South Korea emerged as industrial and democratic exemplars in the East Asia region. A less well-known story is of their equally remarkable achievements in social policy reform and the formation of welfare states. Section 1 of the Element provides an overview of welfare state deepening in Japan, Taiwan and Korea and an account of why and how the developmental states institutionalized the social insurance model. Section 2 examines the drivers of social welfare universalization in Japan, Taiwan and Korea, notably the importance of democratization. Section 3 focuses on emerging challenges to the East Asian welfare state and how it has adapted. Though Japan, South Korea and Taiwan evolved their welfare states in a distinctive way historically, the current challenges they face and their responses have converged with other developed, post-industrial democracies.
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Introduction; 1. The Developmental State and Social Policy; 2. Democratization and Social Welfare; 3. Adaptation for the Twenty-First Century; Conclusion: Exceptionalism to Universalism.
