Transforming the Developmental Welfare State in East Asia: (Social Policy in a Development Context)

Since the economic crisis of 1997, there have been significant social policy reforms in East Asia. Using the concept of the developmental welfare state, this book seeks to answer whether the welfare reforms in East Asia have extended social rights while maintaining its developmental credentials. Transforming the Developmental Welfare State in East Asia explains the way in which the shift in economic strategy has influenced social policy reform in East Asia. It also analyzes the political dynamics of social policy in which economic imperatives for social reform were transformed into social policy reform.

Table of Contents:
List of Figures List of Tables Foreword: T.Mkandawire Preface and Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors An Overview of the Study: The Developmental Welfare State and Policy Reforms in East Asia; H.Kwon PART I: THE POLITICS OF WELFARE DEVELOPMENTALISM The Reform of the Developmental Welfare State in Korea: Advocacy Coalitions and Health Politics; H.Kwon Democracy, Development and Health in Taiwan; J.Wong The New Politics of the Welfare State in a Developmental Context: Explaining the 1990s Social Care Expansion in Japan; I.Peng Welfare Developmentalism in Singapore and Malaysia; C.B.Huat The Politics of Welfare Developmentalism in Hong Kong; E.W.Y.Lee PART II: THE INSTITUTIONAL DYNAMICS OF WELFARE DEVELOPMENTALISM Development Strategies and the Unemployment Policies in Korea; I.Yi & B-H.Lee Unemployment and Policy Responses in Taiwan: Gender and Family Implications; F-L.Chen One and a Half Cheers for Provident Funds in Malaysia and Singapore; M.Ramesh Social Care in Hong Kong: The Dynamics of the Welfare Mix; V.Pearson PART III: WELFARE DEVELOPMENTALISM IN FORMATION? China's Social Policy: Reform in the Context of Marketization and Globalization; X.Guan Challenges of Implementing Universal Health Care in Thailand; V.Tangcharoensathien, W.Teokul & L.Chanwongpaisarn Index

About the Author :
LALITA CHANWONGPAISARN Graduate student in economics, Boston University, USA FEN-LIN CHEN Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Yuan-Ze University, Taiwan CHUA BENG HUAT Professor, Asia Research Institute and the Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore XINPING GUAN Chair of Department of Sociology, Nankai University, People's Republic of China BYUNG-HEE LEE Senior Research Fellow, Korea Labour Institute, Korea ELIZA W. Y. LEE Associate Professor, Department of Government and Public Administration, The Chinese University of Hong Kong VERONICA PEARSON Department of Social Work and Social Administration, University of Hong Kong ITO PENG Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto, Canada M. RAMESH Senior Fellow, Public Policy Program, National University of Singapore VIROJ TANGCHAROENSATHIEN Director, International Health Policy Programme, Health System Research Institute, Thailand WARANYA TEOKUL Senior Policy and Plan Analyst, Office of National Economic and Social Development Board (NESDB), Thailand JOSEPH WONG Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto, Canada ILCHEONG YI Faculty Fellow, School of Languages and Cultures, Kyushu University, Japan