This book revisits after about close to 20 years the East Asian Welfare Model when looked at from an ideal-typical perspective. Ideal-typical welfare regimes do not change, in general, quickly, they are stable, due to the higher level of observation applied (using a high-flying birds or satellites perspective).
Twenty years, however, are a long time also in welfare state system development. A great deal of mega events and mega trends have impacted on social policy all over the world in these last two decades. These include the Covid 19 pandemic, gender movements, rock-bottom low overall fertility (in the post-industrial setting), global production shifts (a.k.a. globalization of industrial production), and last but not least technological revolution brought upon by super-digitalization and artificial intelligence applications, and information society in general, and with it technological unemployment of a large parts of a whole new generation having become unemployable while they have been highly trained at college and university levels.
It is high time to look at East Asia welfare state systems up close again, and the right theoretical and methodological lens, i.e. applying ideal-typical theory and methodology, to an otherwise not graspable fully dynamic and intertwined phenomenon: continued welfare state growth amidst crises and change.
Chapter
1. East Asia Has Escaped Europes Attention: The Welfare States
Are Up and RunningAn Introduction (Christian Aspalter).
Chapter
2. Twenty
Years on: The Ideal-Typical Pro-Welfare Conservative Welfare Regime
(Christian Aspalter).
Chapter
3. The Welfare State in Japan (Masato
Shizume).
Chapter
4. The Welfare State in South Korea (Jörg Michael Dostal
and Hyungyung Moon).
Chapter
5. The Welfare State in China (Joe C.B.
Leung).
Chapter
6. The Welfare State in Hong Kong (Yu-cheung Wong).
Chapter
7. The Welfare State in Macao (Donghang Zhang and Charles Tong-Lit Leung).-
Chapter
8. The Welfare State in Taiwan (Hubert Liu and Christian Aspalter).-
Chapter
9. The Welfare State in Vietnam (Pham-Thi-Hong Diep).
Chapter
10.
The Welfare State in Thailand (Wannaphong Durongkaveroj).
Chapter
11. The
Welfare State in Malaysia (Siti Munirah Binti Mohd Faizal Lim).
Chapter
12.
The Welfare State in Singapore (Christian Aspalter).
Chapter
13. The Welfare
State in Indonesia (Tauchid Komara Yuda).
Chapter
14. Welfare State
Development and the East Asian Welfare Model: By Way of Conclusion (Christian
Aspalter).
Christian Aspalter has published over 25 books in Social Policy, Economics, and Health Policy. He is one of the leading theorists in social policy, quantum social science, and quantum economics. He is the author of Quantum Economics: The New Economics of Communication, Power and Power Relations (Elgar), Ten Worlds of Welfare Capitalism: A Global Data Analysis (Springer), Human Entanglement Theory (Springer), Super Inequality (Springer), and Democratization and Welfare State Development in Taiwan (Routledge), plus the editor of Covid 19 Pandemic (Springer), Elgar Research Encyclopedia of Social Policy (fc.), Quantum Social Science (fc.), Financing Welfare State Systems in Asia, Ideal Types in Comparative Social Policy, The Routledge International Handbook to Welfare State Systems, Social Work in East Asia, Discovering the Welfare State in East Asia, as well as the co-editor of Health Care Systems in Developing Countries in Asia, Health Care Systems in Europe and Asia, Development and Social Policy, plus Active Aging in Asia.
