East Asian welfare regime: obsolete ideal-type or diversified reality?

TY - JOUR

T1 - East Asian welfare regime

T2 - obsolete ideal-type or diversified reality?

AU - Abrahamson, Peter

PY - 2017/1/2

Y1 - 2017/1/2

N2 - The paper asks if East Asian welfare regimes are still productivist and Confucian? And, have they developed public care policies? The literature is split on the first question but (mostly) confirmative on the second. Care has to a large, but insufficient extent, been rolled out in the region. Political science studies tend to conclude that the region has left the old legacies behind and are now welfare states comparable to European states including them either in the conservative type (e.g. Japan), the liberal type (e.g. Korea) or even as a tendency in the Nordic type (e.g. China), while studies focusing on outcomes or causal links tend to suggest that legacies prevail, but there is (nearly) consensus that Confucianism exercises great influence in the whole region.

AB - The paper asks if East Asian welfare regimes are still productivist and Confucian? And, have they developed public care policies? The literature is split on the first question but (mostly) confirmative on the second. Care has to a large, but insufficient extent, been rolled out in the region. Political science studies tend to conclude that the region has left the old legacies behind and are now welfare states comparable to European states including them either in the conservative type (e.g. Japan), the liberal type (e.g. Korea) or even as a tendency in the Nordic type (e.g. China), while studies focusing on outcomes or causal links tend to suggest that legacies prevail, but there is (nearly) consensus that Confucianism exercises great influence in the whole region.

KW - Faculty of Social Sciences

KW - East Asia; welfare regime;

KW - East Asia

KW - welfare regime

KW - social policy

KW - family policy

KW - confucianism

U2 - 10.1080/17516234.2016.1258524

DO - 10.1080/17516234.2016.1258524

M3 - Journal article

SN - 1751-6234

VL - 10

SP - 90

EP - 103

JO - Journal of Asian Public Policy

JF - Journal of Asian Public Policy

IS - 1

ER -