Transforming the Developmental Welfare State in East Asia

Huck-Ju Kwon is Research Co-ordinator at the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), while on leave at the Sung Kyun Kwan University, Korea. He has worked on comparative social policy in East Asia, social policy and democracy, and the politics of public policy. His publications include The East Asian Welfare Model: The State and Welfare Orientalism and Beyond European Welfare Regimes: Comparative Perspectives on East Asian Welfare Systems. He is also co-editor of the forthcoming International Encyclopaedia of Social Policy.

• List of Figures List of Tables Foreword: T.Mkandawire Preface and Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors An Overview of the Study: The Developmental Welfare State and Policy Reforms in East Asia; H.Kwon PART I: THE POLITICS OF WELFARE DEVELOPMENTALISM The Reform of the Developmental Welfare State in Korea: Advocacy Coalitions and Health Politics; H.Kwon Democracy, Development and Health in Taiwan; J.Wong The New Politics of the Welfare State in a Developmental Context: Explaining the 1990s Social Care Expansion in Japan; I.Peng Welfare Developmentalism in Singapore and Malaysia; C.B.Huat The Politics of Welfare Developmentalism in Hong Kong; E.W.Y.Lee PART II: THE INSTITUTIONAL DYNAMICS OF WELFARE DEVELOPMENTALISM Development Strategies and the Unemployment Policies in Korea; I.Yi & B-H.Lee Unemployment and Policy Responses in Taiwan: Gender and Family Implications; F-L.Chen One and a Half Cheers for Provident Funds in Malaysia and Singapore; M.Ramesh Social Care in Hong Kong: The Dynamics of the Welfare Mix; V.Pearson PART III: WELFARE DEVELOPMENTALISM IN FORMATION? China's Social Policy: Reform in the Context of Marketization and Globalization; X.Guan Challenges of Implementing Universal Health Care in Thailand; V.Tangcharoensathien, W.Teokul & L.Chanwongpaisarn Index