Mutsuko Takahashi

Risk and Public Policy in East Asia (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Chan, Raymond K. H.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Contemporary Asian society is marked by social processes associated with the loss of stable economic growth and high employment; family structures capable of caring for family members in need; and governmental economic and political competence. Against this backdrop, this volume offers a timely review of these critical issues, offering an introduction of the concepts and theoretical approaches of risk and risk and governance that places them within the context of Asian societies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317062882
• Artikelnr.: 44875730

Autorenporträt

Raymond K.H. Chan, Associate Professor, Department of Applied Social Studies, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong; Mutsuko Takahashi, Professor, Graduate School of International Cooperation and Development, Kibi International University, Japan and Lillian Lih-rong Wang, Professor, Department of Social Work & Director, Social Policy Research Center, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction: Risk and Public Policy in East Asia
Raymond K.H. Chan
Mutsuko Takahashi
Lillian Lih-rong Wang; Part I Risk and Risk Regulation: Concepts and Practices; Chapter 2 The Relevance of Social Science Approaches to Risk for Social Policy Research
Jens O. Zinn; Chapter 3 1 The author would like to thank Julia Howe and Attila Szanto for their excellent research assistance in preparing for this chapter.
Bridget M. Hutter; Part II Risk and Family Changes; Chapter 4 Risks
Family
and Gender Justice in Contemporary Japan
Mutsuko Takahashi; Chapter 5 1 The research was the part of 'Gender Equality and Multicultural Conviviality in the Age of Globalization' (Global COE Project
Head investigator: Mari Osawa) and 'A Comparative Study of Care Regime and Social Integration in East Asia'
supported by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B: No.21310168) from the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). I thank Song Dayoung for her help
and helpful comments and suggestions from the editors
Mari Osawa
Heidi Gottfried
Karin Gottschall
Sawako Shirahase
Karen Shire
Kim Young
Kim Sujeong
Hwang Jungmee and Baek Sunhee on earlier versions of this chapter.
Naoko Soma; Chapter 6 New Social Risks and Family Change in Taiwan
Tsung-hsi Fu
Rhidian Hughes; Chapter 7 Managing Family Risks in Hong Kong: How and Why
Raymond K.H. Chan; Chapter 8 Managing Family-Related Risks in East Asia
Lillian Lih-rong Wang; Part III Risk
Work and Socio-Economic Security; Chapter 9 Unemployment and the Government's Role in a Risk Society: A Case Study in Taiwan
Fen-ling Chen; Chapter 10 Managing Risks During a Financial Crisis: Promises and Fallacies of the Productive Welfare Model in Hong Kong
Raymond M.H. Ngan; Chapter 11 Managing or Generating New Social Risks? Labour Market Changes and the Japanese Welfare Regime
Junko Yamashita; Chapter 12 Comments on Socio-economic Security in Four East Asian Societies
Dukjin Chang; Part IV Risk and its Governance;