Welfare and Inequality in Marketizing East Asia

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-137-54105-5
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 435 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 6971 g

Reihe: Studies in the Political Economy of Public Policy

Develops a spirited defence of welfare regimes analysis through a constructive critique of recent comparative scholarship and an empirical analysis of the politics of wellbeing in Vietnam
Extends the analysis of welfare regimes from Northeast Asia, where the politics of social policy has advanced in recent years, to Southeast AsiaTheorizes the development of welfare institutions in Vietnam from a political economy perspective.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

London, Jonathan D.

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziale Ungleichheit, Armut, Rassismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I.- Chapter 1. Great Transformations.- Chapter 2. Welfare, Inequality, and Marketization.- Chapter 3. Welfare, Growth, and Governance.- Chapter 4. Marketization, Protection, and Inclusive Growth: A New Synthesis.- Chapter 5. Rethinking Welfare Regimes.- Part II.- Chapter 6. Welfare, Inequality, and Varieties of Social Order.- Chapter 7. Developmental Welfare States?: Korea and Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore.- Chapter 8. Welfare, Clientelism, and Inequality.- Chapter 9. Welfare and Inequality in Market Leninism.- Chapter 10. 10. Afterword: Welfare and Inequality in Marketizing East Asia.

Über Autor(innen)

Jonathan D. London is Senior University Lecturer of Global Political Economy – Asia at Leiden University in The Netherlands. His recent publications include Politics in Contemporary Vietnam (Palgrave) and journal articles in The Journal of Contemporary Asia, Social Science and Medicine, and The Annual Review of Political Science. He holds a PhD in sociology from the University of Wisconsin.