Social Welfare Development in East Asia
Published on 3. October 2000
Book
Hardback
VIII, 214 pages
978-0-333-75460-3 (ISBN)
Description
Comparative social policy has long neglected welfare development in Asia. Not much is known about social welfare in the economically successful East Asian tigers (Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore and Taiwan). They are late starters in social welfare but each has its own trajectory of welfare development. Despite the presence of extensive social welfare, they have shied away from western-style welfare states. The presence of strong developmental states and their development ethos explain in large part the underdevelopment of state welfare.
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'...need[s] to be read by anyone working on the topic.' - Stephan Haggard, American Political Science ReviewMore details
Edition
2000 edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
VIII, 214 p.
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
349 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-75460-3 (9780333754603)
DOI
10.1057/9780333985496
Schweitzer Classification
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Person
KWONG-LEUNG TANG is an Associate Professor in the College of Arts, Social and Health Sciences at the University of Northern British Columbia, Canada. His academic interests include Asian social development, law and social policy, and comparative social policy. He is the co-author of
Models of Workplace Training: Lessons from the Employees Retraining Scheme in Kong-Kong
(with J.Cheung). His last authored book
Colonial State and Social Policy
was published in 1998.
Content
List of Tables Preface The Study of State Welfare in East Asia East Asia and Theories of Comparative Social Policy The Social Investment State in Singapore Authoritarianism and the Social Insurance State: The Case of Taiwan Authoritarian Developmental State and Social Welfare in Korea Toward a Social Investment State? Social Welfare Development of Hong Kong Social Welfare Provisions in East Asia and Quality of Life The Future of State Welfare in East Asia References Index