Overview
- Provides a cutting-edge comparative political economy analysis of welfare and inequality across ten East Asian countries.
- Elaborates a constructive critique of theoretical and policy literature on welfare and inequality and theoretical methods for locating changes in welfare policy, institutions, and inequality at the intersection of local, national and global processes and relations.
- Sets forth a research agenda that brings welfare and inequality toward the center of comparative political economy by construing countries as dynamic, globally embedded social orders defined and animated by distinctive social relational and institutional features.
Part of the book series: Studies in the Political Economy of Public Policy (PEPP)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Welfare, Inequality, and Marketization
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Social Orders and Marketization in Process
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“London's impressive book systematically analyses the complex relationship between inequality and welfare and the politics and social interests that shape economic and social policies. It breaks new theoretical ground by locating patterns of welfare and inequality within the specific strategies of accumulation and growth that have underpinned the integration of East Asian states into the global political economy. The book provides for an ambitious and broad ranging research agenda that locates welfare policy, institutions, and inequality at the intersection of local, national and global processes, and associated social forces and interests. It moves debates on welfare and inequality away from a narrow institutionalist focus on the analysis of families of welfare regimes toward the analysis of continuity and change in the power and interests that define political economies and shape social policies, welfare, and inequality over time. This innovative and stimulating book is compulsory reading.” (Kanishka Jayasuriya, Murdoch University, Australia)
“Jonathan London, a leading scholar of social change in Vietnam, has produced a careful and richly textured study of the relationship between market liberalization, welfare and inequality in East and Southeast Asia that situates these changes within their proper social and historical context. Welfare and Inequality in Marketizing East Asia provides a fresh perspective on these issues and will spark a long overdue debate about the social implications of economic liberalization in developing Asia.” (Jonathan Pincus, The Rajawali Foundation)
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Book Title: Welfare and Inequality in Marketizing East Asia
Authors: Jonathan D. London
Series Title: Studies in the Political Economy of Public Policy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54106-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-54105-5Published: 30 April 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-54106-2Published: 20 March 2018
Series ISSN: 2524-7441
Series E-ISSN: 2524-745X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVIII, 435
Number of Illustrations: 26 b/w illustrations