PART I An overview of the study 1 Welfare Orientalism and the search for an East Asian welfare model PART II An overview of East Asian welfare systems 2 Democracy and the politics of social welfare: a comparative analysis of welfare systems in East Asia PART III Country case studies 3 Welfare and governance: public housing under Singapore’s party-state 4 The South Korean National Pension Programme: fulfilling its promise? 5 Can we afford it? The development of National Health Insurance in Taiwan 6 The ‘Japanese-style welfare state’ and the delivery of personal social services 7 The making of social policy in Hong Kong: social welfare development in the 1980s and 1990s 8 Social security reforms in China: towards an East Asian model?
Roger Goodman is a Lecturer in the Social Anthropology of Japan and Fellow of St Antony’s College, University of Oxford. Gordon White, who died suddenly on 1 April 1998, was Professorial Fellow in Politics and Development Studies, University of Sussex. Huck-ju Kwon is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Public Administration, Sung Kyun Kwan University, Seoul, Korea.
"Overall, this is an important addition to the field of comparative
social policy. It is the best one on East Asia that is available.
The quality of this volume will ensure that it will be an essential
reader for many years to come. As the leading text, it will provide
insights to researchers who examine the nature and development of
East Asian welfare."
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