Vol. 1, No. 2, December 2002
	Discovering the Welfare State in East Asia Edited by Christian Aspalter Format: Hardcover, 216pp. ISBN: 0275974138 Publisher: Praeger Pub. Date: March 2002 Order now Today, it is believed that the development of welfare states of high standards is primarily based on the ideology of pro-welfare, mostly leftwing, parties; this belief dominates welfare state literature and common thought in the Western world. The reader of this book will find that, first, the welfare state in East Asia grows as "naturally" as it did in most Western countries, and second, that the reasons for this are other than pro-welfare ideologies. The five welfare states discussed here are residual welfare states with low levels of welfare benefits and provisions, if compared to extended welfare states in Western Europe.This book traces the roots of welfare state development in East Asia. Table of Contents List of Tables List of Figures Acknowledgments 1 Introduction 1 2 Exploring Old and New Shores in Welfare State Theory Christian Aspalter 9 3 Gender and Welfare State Restructuring in Japan Ito Peng 39 4 The Korean Welfare State: Development and Reform Agenda Huck-ju Kwon 63 5 The Struggle of Welfare Development in Hong Kong Raymond K.H. Chan 81 6 The Hong Kong Way of Social Welfare: An NGO-based Welfare System Christian Aspalter 115 7 Towards a Taiwanese Welfare State: Demographic Change, Politics, and Social Policy Yeun-wen Ku 143 8 Singapore: A Welfare State in a Class by Itself Christian Aspalter 169 Index 191 About the Contributors 197
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