Joseph Wong: The Welfare State in East Asia, Kartoniert / Broschiert
The Welfare State in East Asia
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press, 01/2025
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781108814799
- Item number:
- 12107233
- Volume:
- 82 Pages
- Weight:
- 122 g
- Format:
- 229 x 152 mm
- Thickness:
- 4 mm
- Release date:
- 20.1.2025
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Caution: Product is not in German language
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Blurb
During the postwar period, Japan, Taiwan and South Korea emerged as industrial and democratic exemplars in the East Asia region. A less well-known story is of their equally remarkable achievements in social policy reform and the formation of welfare states. Section 1 of the Element provides an overview of welfare state deepening in Japan, Taiwan and Korea and an account of why and how the developmental states institutionalized the social insurance model. Section 2 examines the drivers of social welfare universalization in Japan, Taiwan and Korea, notably the importance of democratization. Section 3 focuses on emerging challenges to the East Asian welfare state and how it has adapted. Though Japan, South Korea and Taiwan evolved their welfare states in a distinctive way historically, the current challenges they face and their responses have converged with other developed, post-industrial democracies.