Research Agenda for East Asian Social Policy

Edited by Misa Izuhara, Professor of Social Policy, University of Bristol, UK

• Contents:1 Introduction to the Research Agenda for EastAsian Social Policy 1Misa Izuhara2 Diversity of institutional change in East Asiansocial investment policy: the cases of Hong Kongand Taiwan 13Stefan Kühner and Shih-Jiunn Shi3 Exploring the relationship between social policyand innovation in South Korea 37Young Jun Choi4 Public opinion and social policy reforms in East Asia 63Chung-Yang Yeh and Ijin Hong5 The introduction of the “mainland frame” in publicpolicy: a case study on framing and politicalrhetoric in Hong Kong’s climate policy 85Tommy Chung Yin Kwan6 Child poverty policies in Japan: familial welfarestate in transition? 103Aya Abe7 The role of housing in successful and sustainableyouth transitions in Japan and South Korea 127Misa Izuhara and Bongjo Yi8 The marketisation of long-term care in East Asia 151Wenjing Zhang9 Gendered responsibility of multigenerationalcare: examining ‘defamilialisation’ policies infamily-centred welfare regimes in East Asia 171Junko Yamashita and Naoko Soma10 Challenging the universal healthcare systems inSoutheast Asia: COVID-19 crisis management inIndonesia and the Philippines 197Huck-Ju Kwon, Ye Eun Ha, Kyungchul Yang,Seongyeon Park, and Sodam YiIndex 221

‘Misa Izuhara’s newly edited book offers a timely and carefully-crafted new Research Agenda for East Asian social policy research. It functions as a forward-looking and enlightening guide for social policy scholars in East Asia and even the world to deal with new social risks emerging in the ever-changing socioeconomic environment, especially in the era after the COVID-19 epidemic.’