Myungsook Woo

The Politics of Social Welfare Policy in South Korea

Growth and Citizenship

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Produktbeschreibung

The Politics of Social Welfare Policy in South Korea explains, in a comparative perspective, South Korea's ungenerous welfare policies. Building on welfare state theories underlining class politics and state actions, the theoretical framework also incorporates an institutional perspective.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 282g
• ISBN-13: 9780761829782
• ISBN-10: 0761829784
• Artikelnr.: 21285176

Autorenporträt

By Myungsook Woo

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 List of Tables Chapter 2 Preface Chapter 3 Introduction: The
Question for the Study; Main Arguments; Review of Existing Explanation and
the Current Study; Chapter Outlines Chapter 4 Analytic Framework:
Capitalist Industrialization, Balance of Class Power, and State Action:
Capitalist industrialization; Balance of class power and state action;
Conclusion; South Korea in Comparative Perspective: State autonomy and
balanc Chapter 5 Underdevelopment of Social Welfare Policy: Centralization
of State Power; Implementation of Welfare Laws; Why Did Welfare Policy
Development Make Little Progress?; Conclusion Chapter 6 The Coordinated
Markey Economy and Social Welfare Policy: Creating the Coordinated Market
Economy: Strong State, Big Business, and Weak Unions; Enterprise-Based
Labor Mobilization and Social Benefits: Company-coordinated mobilization
and wage con Chapter 7 Social Democratic Movement and Social Welfare
Policy: Anti-Government Movements and Social Welfare Policy; Social Welfare
Policy Development and Its Limitations: Health Insurance and Public Old-Age
Pension; The Coordination of Business and Workers: Chapter 8 International
Economy and Social Welfare Policy: Economic Crisis and Class Compromise;
Compensatory Policies; Reform of Health Insurance and Old-Age Pension:
Significance and Limitations; Divided Labor: Defense and solidarity;
Success and failure Chapter 9 Conclusion: Findings and Theoretical
Implications; Current Debates on the Crisis of the Welfare State and the
Future of the South Korean Welfare State Chapter 10 Appendices Chapter 11
Bibliography Chapter 12 Index Chapter 13 About the Author

Rezensionen

The book will be of interest to students of international social policy, globalization and of South Korea, as well as political scientists, drawing as it does on a detailed and distinctive study of the political nature of social welfare... What is particularly interesting in this study is the way the writer works with political aspects of social welfare reform and the predominance of the market economy, in particular the large industrial companies... This is a fascinating study of class power, developing democracy, dramatic economic development and crisis. -- Prof. Liz Ross, University of Birmingham Social Policy, Vol. 35/3: 2006