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The Welfare State in Korea

The Politics of Legitimization

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  • © 1999

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Authors:
  1. Huck-ju Kwon

    1. Department of Public Administration, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea

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Part of the book series: St Antony's Series (STANTS)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • Huck-ju Kwon
    Pages 1-5

  3. Social Policy in a Confined Institutional Terrain

    • Huck-ju Kwon
    Pages 7-26

  4. Social Policy Making

    • Huck-ju Kwon
    Pages 27-68

  5. The Structure of Social Policy

    • Huck-ju Kwon
    Pages 69-102

  6. The Outcomes of Social Policy: An Appraisal from Two Perspectives

    • Huck-ju Kwon
    Pages 103-130

  7. Conclusion

    • Huck-ju Kwon
    Pages 131-142

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 143-194
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About this book

Through the analysis of institutional dynamics Kwon argues that social policy development in Korea is not due to common exogenous factors such as international or union pressure but to the desire of the weakly-legitimated government to have itself legitimized. Such political rationale is deeply embedded in the structure of social policy institutions and particularly in the way that the state has played a part in financing social welfare programmes. Kwon shows that the role of the Korean state is characterized as essentially that of regulator-type rather than provider.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Public Administration, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea

    Huck-ju Kwon

About the author

HUCK-JU KWON is Assistant Professor at the Department of Public Administration in Sungkyun kwan University, Seoul, Korea. He was previously a Research Officer at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex (1995-96). He co-edited with G.White and R.Goodman a book entitled, Welfare Orientalism (in 1997 published by Routledge). His article, `Beyond European Welfare Regimes' was published in the Journal of Social Policy (October 1997). He was awarded a D.Phil. degree in politics at St. Antony's College, Oxford University in 1995.

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