Globalizing Welfare

Edited by Stein Kuhnle, Emeritus Professor of Comparative Politics, University of Bergen, Norway and Emeritus Professor, the Hertie School, the University of Governance, Berlin, Germany, Per Selle, Professor of Comparative Politics, University of Bergen and Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Tromsø, Norway and Sven E.O. Hort, Formerly Professor of Sociology, Linnaeus University, Sweden and Professor of Social Welfare, Seoul National University, South Korea

• Contents:Preface1. Introduction: Globalizing Welfare: An Evolving Asian-European Dialogue Stein Kuhnle, Per Selle and Sven HortPart I: Developing East Asian Welfare States: Internal Forces and Outside Influences 2. Korea’s Transition from the Developmental to the Universal Welfare State Huck-ju Kwon3. China’s Welfare State BuildingYuan Ren4. The Welfare Regime in China: Towards Moderate UniversalismYi Pan and Ziyu Wang5. Welfare Development amid Crises: What Hong Kong Can Learn from the Nordic ExperiencesRaymond K.H. Chan6. Japan as a Developmental State: The Need for a New ApproachMasato Kamikubo7. Who Are the Caregivers for the Elderly? The Role of Women in the Welfare State in the Nordic Countries and in East AsiaYoko Otsuka and Lingyan Chen8. Have Japanese Social Welfare NPOs Failed? Emerging Social Enterprises and Major TransformationMasanari SakuraiPart II: Developed North European Welfare States: State and Society in a Globalizing World9. The Concept of Society in the Making of the Nordic Welfare StatePauli Kettunen 10. Globalization and the Nordic Welfare StatesJørgen Goul Andersen11. Normative Foundations of Nordic Family and Gender Equality Policies: Developments and ChallengesÅsa Lundqvist12. Conflicting Ideas on Danish Day Care during the Golden Age of the Danish Welfare StateKlaus Petersen13. Changing Normative Principles of Social Justice in the Norwegian Pension SystemRune Ervik, Nanna Kildal, Stein Kuhnle and Tord Skogedal Lindén14. The Future Role of Civil Society in a Welfare State: Perspectives from GermanyHelmut K. Anheier15. The Challenging Position of Civil Society Service Production within the Norwegian Welfare StatePer Selle and Kristin StrømsnesPart III: Global Issues and Perspectives16. Learning from Feminist Scholarship on the Welfare StateMarie Laperrière and Ann Shola Orloff17. An Authoritarian-populist Welfare State? Reassessing the ‘Belarusian model’ in Comparative PerspectiveSven Hort and Nikolay Zakharov18. Framing Inequality and Related Policy ResponsesClaus Offe19. Entangled Inequalities, a Disbalanced Welfare State, and Populist Challenges for DemocracyStephan Leibfried, Kerstin Martens and Uwe SchimankIndex

‘Globalizing Welfare: An Evolving Asian-European Dialogue is a much needed and welcome contribution to the yet scarce literature. The book is a recommended addition to the libraries of scholars specialized in sociology, political science, public administration, social policy, and social work who aim to learn more about welfare systems in Nordic Europe and East Asia.’