Jae-Jin YangThe Political Economy of the Small Welfare State in South Korea
Jae-Jin Yang is Professor of Public Administration at Yonsei University, Seoul. He earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from Rutgers University, New Jersey in 2000. He is interested in the underdeveloped welfare states in East Asia, Anglo-Saxon countries, and Southern Europe. His publications have appeared in Comparative Politics, the Journal of European Social Policy, Policy and Politics, Asian Survey, and the Journal of East Asian Studies. He is the author and editor of several books, including Retirement, Work and Pensions in Ageing Korea (2010). He won the Best Article of the Year Award from the Korean Political Science Association in 2013 and has received the Faculty Research Excellence Award four times from Yonsei University.
1. Introduction; 2. Theoretical reinterpretation of the small welfare state
in South Korea; 3. The emergence of the small welfare state under the
authoritarian developmental state (1961-1987); 4. Democratization and
limited welfare state development under the conservative rule (1987-1997);
5. Economic crisis, power shift, and welfare politics under the Kim Dae
Jung government (1997-2002); 6. Economic Unionism and the limits of the
Korean welfare state under the Roh Moo Hyun government (2003-2007); 7. Wind
of welfare and tax politics under the returned conservative rule; 8.
Conclusion.
