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This wide-ranging comparative analysis of contemporary and future changes in welfare states looks at the different trajectories of the welfare states of Europe, North America, the Antipodes, and the emerging scenarios in Latin America, East Asia and Central and Eastern Europe. Leading experts on each of these regions examine the current structures of social protection, consider the causes of the current welfare state crisis and highlight evolving trends for welfare policy. Different welfare states are shown to manifest different forms of crisis. Among the symptoms of crisis, Welfare States in Transition suggests that the effect of popluation ageing is exaggerated, and an at least equally fundamental challenge lies in
The East Asian Welfare States: Peripatetic Learning, Adaptive Change, and Nation-Building
The East Asian Welfare States: Peripatetic Learning, Adaptive Change, and Nation-Building
While the last couple of decades has seen a burgeoning of literature on East Asian countries, little is known outside the region about their social welfare systems. There are several reasons for this. First, and perhaps most obviously, is that there are very few written materials on the subject in English. Since only a few social welfare experts and researchers in the West speak or read an East Asian language, access to information is limited. Secondly, systematized social welfare itself has been a relatively new development amongst the industrialized East Asian countries. Even in Japan, which probably has the most ‘advanced’ social ...
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