Managing Social Change and Social Policy in Greater China: Welfare Regimes in Transition

ISBN-13: 9781138579187 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 250 str.

Ka-Ho Mok; Maggie K. W. Lau

Opis

This book examines welfare regimes in the Greater China region, encompassing mainland China, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. In so doing, it explores the ways in which the rapid growth and internationalisation of the economy across Greater China is presenting new social policy challenges that governments, social welfare organizations and agencies in the region are having to respond to, and the contributors add to our understanding of how one of the major economic transformations of the contemporary era in East Asia is shaping welfare provision in the region.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: The Search for New Social Policy Paradigm? Managing Changing Social Expectations and Welfare Regimes in Transition in Greater China 2. After the Regional and Global Financial Crises: Social Development Challenges and Social Policy Responses in Hong Kong and Macau 3. Welfare Restructuring and Social (In)equity across Generations in Hong Kong 4. Financial Tsunami, Economic Insecurity and Social Protection: The Case of Hong Kong 5. Development Strategies and Poverty Reduction in Taiwan: From Authoritarianism to Democratic Governance 6. Bringing the State Back In: The Developments of Chinese Social Policy in China since 2003 7. Social Policy in the Macao Special Administrative Region of China: A Case of Regulatory Welfare Regime 8. Old Age Care Concerns and State-Society Relations in China: Public Anxiety and State Paternalism 9. Challenges Confronting the Taiwan Goverment in Welfare Provision 10. Public-Private Pension Mix and Its Governance: Japan and Taiwan Compared 11. Fiscal reform, Decentralization and Poverty Alleviation in the Context of China’s 12^th Five-Year Plan 12. Conclusion: Analyzing the Productvist Dimensions of Welfare: Looking beyond Greater China