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Record Nr.

UNINA9910280814503321

Autore

Kim Mason M. S

Titolo

Comparative Welfare Capitalism in East Asia [[electronic resource] ] : Productivist Models of Social Policy / / by Mason M. S. Kim

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2015

ISBN

1-137-47185-9

Edizione

[1st ed. 2015.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (189 p.)

Disciplina

361.95

Soggetti

Asia—Politics and government

Development economics

Ethnology—Asia

Political economy

Macroeconomics

Welfare economics

Asian Politics

Development Economics

Asian Culture

International Political Economy

Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics

Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice/Political Economy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover ; Half-Title ; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; 1 Introduction                     ; A. Debates on the East Asian welfare type                                                ; B. Arguments in brief                            ; C. Terms, scope, and method of analysis                                              ; D. The structure of the book                                   ; 2 Institutional Variation in Productivist Welfare Capitalism

A. East Asian welfare states from a comparative perspective                                                                  B. Institutional divergence of productivist welfarism                                                            ; C. Empirical test: cluster analysis                                          ; D. Concluding remarks                            ; 3 What Drives the Institutional



Divergence of Productivist Welfare Capitalism?

A. Theories of welfare state development                                               B. Causes of the divergence of productivist welfarism                                                            ; C. Empirical test: cross-sectional time-series analysis                                                              ; D. Concluding remarks                            ; 4 Three Cases of Productivist Welfare Capitalism                                                       ; A. Korea: inclusive productivist welfare

B. Singapore: market productivist welfare                                                C. China: dualist productivist welfare                                             ; 5 Conclusion                   ; Appendix               ; References                 ; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The author aims to develop conceptual refining and theoretical reframing of the productivist welfare capitalism thesis in order to address a set of questions concerning whether and how productivist welfarism has experienced both continuity and change in East Asia.