Myungsook Woo

Politics of Social Welfare Policy in South Korea

Growth and Citizenship

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Politics of Social Welfare Policy in South Korea explains, in a comparative perspective, South Korea's ungenerous welfare policies. Building on welfare state theories underlining class politics and state actions, the theoretical framework also incorporates an institutional perspective.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of America
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 282g
• ISBN-13: 9780761829782
• ISBN-10: 0761829784
• Artikelnr.: 21285176

Autorenporträt

By Myungsook Woo

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 List of Tables
Chapter 2 Preface
Chapter 3 Introduction: The Question for the Study; Main Arguments; Review
of Existing Explanation and the Current Study; Chapter Outlines
Chapter 4 Analytic Framework: Capitalist Industrialization, Balance of
Class Power, and State Action: Capitalist industrialization; Balance of
class power and state action; Conclusion; South Korea in Comparative
Perspective: State autonomy and balanc
Chapter 5 Underdevelopment of Social Welfare Policy: Centralization of
State Power; Implementation of Welfare Laws; Why Did Welfare Policy
Development Make Little Progress?; Conclusion
Chapter 6 The Coordinated Markey Economy and Social Welfare Policy:
Creating the Coordinated Market Economy: Strong State, Big Business, and
Weak Unions; Enterprise-Based Labor Mobilization and Social Benefits:
Company-coordinated mobilization and wage con
Chapter 7 Social Democratic Movement and Social Welfare Policy:
Anti-Government Movements and Social Welfare Policy; Social Welfare Policy
Development and Its Limitations: Health Insurance and Public Old-Age
Pension; The Coordination of Business and Workers:
Chapter 8 International Economy and Social Welfare Policy: Economic Crisis
and Class Compromise; Compensatory Policies; Reform of Health Insurance and
Old-Age Pension: Significance and Limitations; Divided Labor: Defense and
solidarity; Success and failure
Chapter 9 Conclusion: Findings and Theoretical Implications; Current
Debates on the Crisis of the Welfare State and the Future of the South
Korean Welfare State
Chapter 10 Appendices
Chapter 11 Bibliography
Chapter 12 Index
Chapter 13 About the Author

Rezensionen

The book will be of interest to students of international social policy, globalization and of South Korea, as well as political scientists, drawing as it does on a detailed and distinctive study of the political nature of social welfare... What is particularly interesting in this study is the way the writer works with political aspects of social welfare reform and the predominance of the market economy, in particular the large industrial companies... This is a fascinating study of class power, developing democracy, dramatic economic development and crisis. -- Prof. Liz Ross, University of Birmingham Social Policy, Vol. 35/3: 2006