The East Asian welfare model : welfare orientalism and the state
The East Asian welfare model : welfare orientalism and the state
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东亚福利模式：福利东方主义与国家
DOI：
10.2307/2659122
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发表时间：
1999
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Huck
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作者：
J. Midgley;R. Goodman;Gordon White;Huck
对于西方的许多政治家和观察家来说，东亚为国家干预社会提供了广泛的正面形象。新自由主义者对大众福利制度感到兴奋，这种制度在开支和官僚主义方面花费很少。社会民主党人认为他们找到了社会凝聚力和平等的典范。事实上，东亚的现实与这些刻板印象大不相同。在这本书中，来自东亚6个不同社会（日本、韩国、台湾、中国、新加坡和香港）的6位专家研究了国家在福利制度中的作用。有关于养恤金、医疗保险、住房和个人社会服务的详细案例研究。他们对这些制度是如何发展的提供了最新的详细描述，并对这些福利制度是文化传统的自然产物还是经济和政治条件的结果这一问题进行了研究。这篇内容广泛、内容详尽的研究将受到学生和政策制定者的欢迎，因为这是第一次用英语对这一主题进行如此广泛的学术研究。它的明确性和权威性应该成为人们对亚洲社会更普遍的误解的另一种受欢迎的选择。
For many politicians and observers in the West, East Asia has provided a broad range of positive images of the state's intervention in society. Neoliberals grew excited by popular welfare systems that cost little in expenditure and bureaucracy. Social-democrats thought they had found a model for social cohesion and equality. In fact the reality in East Asia is rather different from these stereotypes. In this book six specialists of six different societies in East Asia (Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, China, Singapore and Hong Kong) examine the role of the state in their welfare systems. There are detailed case studies on pensions, health insurance, housing and personal social services. They provide an up-to-date detailed account of how these systems have developed as well as an examination of the question of whether these welfare regimes are the natural outgrowth of cultural traditions or the result of economic and political conditions. This broad-ranging and detailed study will be welcomed by both students and policy makers as the first proper academic study in English to have such a wide coverage of this topic. Its clarity and authority should come as a welcome alternative to the more common misconceptions about Asian society.