New Welfare States in East Asia: Global Challenges and Restructuring

ISBN-13: 9781849807524 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 192 str.

Opis

The fast changing economic climate is creating substantial pressure for welfare state restructuring worldwide. Yet the discussion regarding challenges faced and the responses required has been confined to the 'standard welfare states' in the West. This book examines whether these challenges also apply to the countries in the East, whether these countries have generated different responses to their Western counterparts, and whether they have undergone a process of regime transformation while responding to these pressures.