Familial Foundations of the Welfare State Building the National Health Insurance Systems in South Korea and Taiwan /

• Main Author: Wang, Hye Suk (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Subjects: Welfare economics.; Social policy.; Asia > Economic conditions.; Economics.; Asian Economics.; Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice.; Social Policy.

This book situates culture as a determining factor in the development of diverse welfare states, exploring the impact of traditional familialism on South Korean and Taiwanese programs. This approach provides an important alternative to studies that focus on formal variables– such as industrializatio...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Welfare Politics: Building Welfare Institutions
• 3. (De-) Familialization in Social Policy in East Asia
• 4. Historical Development of NHI in S. Korea: Why not Equal Protection for Female Workers’ Families?
• 5. Historical Development of NHI in Taiwan: De-familialization Path of Welfare Politics
• 6. Conclusion.