Roger Goodman / Gordon White (eds.)

The East Asian Welfare Model

Welfare Orientalism and the State
Herausgeber: Goodman, Roger; White, Gordon; Kwon, Huck-Ju

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Produktbeschreibung

Offers the first broad-ranging study of the development and implementation of various welfare systems in East Asia, unfolding the reality behind the rhetoric in this important area.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. August 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 508g
• ISBN-13: 9780415172103
• ISBN-10: 0415172101
• Artikelnr.: 22354487

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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?