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Cover The Small Welfare State
The Small Welfare State
Rethinking Welfare in the US, Japan, and South Korea
Editor:
Jae-jin Yang
In a period of rapid change for welfare states around the world, this insightful book offers a comparative study of three historically small welfare states: the US, Japan, and South Korea. Featuring contributions from international distinguished scholars, this book looks beyond the larger European welfare states to unpack the many common political and institutional characteristics that have constrained welfare state development in industrialized democracies.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
15 Apr 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839104619
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Social and Political Science 2020
Cover Globalizing Welfare
Globalizing Welfare
An Evolving Asian-European Dialogue
From the welfare state’s origins in Europe, the idea of human welfare being organized through a civilized, institutionalized and uncorrupt state has caught the imagination of social activists and policy-makers around the world. This is particularly influential where rapid social development is taking place amidst growing social and gender inequality. This book reflects on the growing academic and political interest in global social policy and ‘globalizing welfare’, and pays particular attention to developments in Northern European and North-East Asian countries.
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Publication Date:
02 Sep 2019
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788975841
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Social and Political Science 2019
Cover Family Demography in Asia
Family Demography in Asia
A Comparative Analysis of Fertility Preferences
The demographic future of Asia is a global issue. As the biggest driver of population growth, an understanding of patterns and trends in fertility throughout Asia is critical to understand our shared demographic future. This is the first book to comprehensively and systematically analyse fertility across the continent through the perspective of individuals themselves rather than as a consequence of top-down government policies.
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Publication Date:
30 Nov 2018
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781785363559
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Social and Political Science 2018
Cover Social Policies in an Age of Austerity
Social Policies in an Age of Austerity
A Comparative Analysis of the US and Korea
Social Policies in an Age of Austerity is the first major publication on the topic, with a particular interest in the United States and the Republic of Korea. The authors of the ten chapters in this book review recent developments in social policies in OECD countries, with a focus on achieving greater effectiveness in public spending on social programs, under increasingly tight national budgets. The contributions cover social and fiscal policy and issues in labor market policy, in addition to the effectiveness of social insurance, education and antipoverty policy.
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Publication Date:
26 Jun 2015
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781784717575
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Economics 2015
Cover Handbook on East Asian Social Policy
Handbook on East Asian Social Policy
Editor:
Misa Izuhara
Dramatic socio-economic transformations over the last two decades have brought social policy and social welfare issues to prominence in many East Asian societies. Since the 1990s and in response to national as well as global pressure, there have been substantial developments and reforms in social policy in the region but the development paths have been uneven. Until recently, comparative analysis of East Asian social policy tends to have focused on the established welfare state of Japan and the emerging welfare regimes of four ‘Tiger Economies’. Much of the recent debate indeed preceded China’s re-emergence onto the world economy. In this context, this Handbook brings China more fully into the contemporary social policy debates in East Asia. Organised around five themes from welfare state developments, to theories and methodologies, to current social policy issues, the Handbook presents original research from leading specialists in the fields, and provides a fresh and updated perspective to the study of social policy.
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Handbook
Publication Date:
30 Aug 2013
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9780857930293
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Social And Political Science 2013
Cover New Welfare States in East Asia
New Welfare States in East Asia
Global Challenges and Restructuring
Editor:
Gyu-Jin Hwang
The fast changing economic climate is creating substantial pressure for welfare state restructuring worldwide. Yet the discussion regarding challenges faced and the responses required has been confined to the ‘standard welfare states’ in the West. This book examines whether these challenges also apply to the countries in the East, whether these countries have generated different responses to their Western counterparts, and whether they have undergone a process of regime transformation while responding to these pressures.
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Monograph Book
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29 Jul 2011
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781849807531
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Social And Political Science 2011
Cover Women, Gender and Rural Development in China
Women, Gender and Rural Development in China
This multidisciplinary book explores gender politics in the discourses and practices of development in rural China. The contributors – scholars in political science, anthropology, gender, development and Chinese studies – examine how differently positioned women are shaping rural development, and how development is affecting women’s capabilities and gender power relations.
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Publication Date:
29 Jul 2011
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9780857933546
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Social And Political Science 2011
Cover Social Policy in an Ageing Society
Social Policy in an Ageing Society
Age and Health in Singapore
Around half the world’s population live in countries where the fertility rate is far below the replacement rate and where life expectancy is increasing dramatically. Using Singapore as a case study, Social Policy in an Ageing Society explores what might happen in a dynamic and prosperous society when falling births, longer life expectancy and rising expectations put disproportionate pressure on scarce resources that have alternative uses.
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Monograph Book
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30 Apr 2009
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781848447455
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Social And Political Science 2010 and before
Cover The Economics of Social Security in Japan
The Economics of Social Security in Japan
This book provides a comprehensive appraisal of social security in Japan, where traditionally the burden of welfare provision has been the main responsibility of the family and employers, rather than the state. However, an ageing population, changes in family structure and continued recession has led to an urgent reappraisal of this situation.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
27 Aug 2004
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781845420758
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Economics 2010 and before
Cover Globalisation and Social Development
Globalisation and Social Development
European and Southeast Asian Evidence
Editor:
Ludo Cuyvers

The impact of globalisation on social development is a critical issue for both developed and developing countries. In Globalisation and Social Development, leading experts investigate this from the perspective of European, and more specifically, Southeast Asian economies including Thailand, the Philippines and Vietnam.

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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
26 Sep 2001
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781781959947
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Economics Archive A