Welfare Capitalism in Taiwan: State, Economy, and Social Policy

1998 ◽  
Vol 27 (6) ◽  
pp. 631
Author(s):  
Alvin Y. So ◽  
Yeun-Wen Ku
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Welfare Capitalism ◽  
State Economy

The right to welfare

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Pinker
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
Welfare Capitalism ◽  
Welfare Pluralism ◽  
The Right ◽  
Right To Welfare ◽  
The Relationship

In this chapter, Robert Pinker discusses T.H. Marshall's concern with welfare pluralism, his study of citizenship and welfare, and his contribution to the development of social policy and administration. He begins with an overview of Marshall's achievement in the field of sociology and some of his major works such as Sociology at the Crossroads and Social Policy in the Twentieth Century, along with the essays entitled ‘Value Problems of Welfare-Capitalism’ and ‘Citizenship and Social Class’. Pinker continues by analysing Marshall's thoughts on the relationship between the inequalities of class and the prospective equality of citizenship and his argument that collectivist social services contribute to the maintenance and enhancement of social welfare so long as such interventions do not subvert the operation of the system of competitive markets. Pinker concludes with an assessment of Marshall's views on social and political rights, the problem of poverty, and the concept of ‘democratic-welfare-capitalism’.

Macao’s welfare model: An extreme world of welfare capitalism?

2012 ◽  
Vol 57 (6) ◽  
pp. 676-687 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dicky Wai Leung Lai
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Welfare States ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Welfare Capitalism ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Welfare Model

This study compared the modification impact of Macao’s social policy on its capitalist social structure with the modification impact of six welfare states’ social policies on each of their capitalist social structures. It found that Macao’s social policy had the lowest modification impact of all states considered, and that it did not appear to fit with the dominant welfare models used in the other six states. We suggest a new model for the case of Macao, and we discuss the implications of the research findings for social work practice.

Social justice and the three worlds of welfare capitalism

2002 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
WOLFGANG MERKEL
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Welfare Capitalism ◽  
Political Preferences ◽  
Theoretical Question ◽  
The Normative Question ◽  
The Welfare State

This essay relates the normative discussion about social justice in political philosophy to empirical results from social policy analysis, thus linking two lines of discussions that have hitherto run mostly separately. The argument will be developed by answering four questions. The normative question: what regulative ideas of social justice does the debate about justice in political philosophy supply? The action-theoretical question: what criteria for judgement and political preferences can be found for a justice-oriented politics? The empirical question: how can the ‘three worlds of welfare capitalism’ be judged in the light of these hierarchically ordered criteria of justice? And finally the institutional question: which logic should underpin a reform of the welfare state, if this reform is to be both socially just and at the same time realistically achievable.

Managing Social Change and Social Policy in Greater China: Welfare Regimes in Transition?

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 235-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ka Ho Mok ◽  
John Hudson
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
Initial Study ◽  
Welfare Regimes ◽  
Welfare Capitalism ◽  
Ideal Types ◽  
Greater China

Discussion of welfare regimes and welfare state ideal types continues to dominate comparative social policy analysis, but the focus of the debate has expanded considerably since the publication of Esping-Andersen's (1990) groundbreaking The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism. Shifts in this debate have been prompted by a mixture of theoretical and empirical concerns raised by comparative social policy scholars, but they have also resulted from a more general internationalisation of social policy research agendas within the academy too. In particular, there has been a strong desire to expand the scope of the debate to encompass nations and regions not included in Esping-Andersen's initial study of just eighteen high income OECD states.

Types of Welfare Capitalism

1985 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 328-342 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Jones
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Economic Performance ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Social Spending ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Welfare Capitalism ◽  
Western Countries ◽  
Standard Terms ◽  
Positive Effect

WESTERN SOCIAL POLICY DEVELOPMENT IS NO LONGER A subject of interest only to welfare specialists and their students. Economic ill-fortune has had at least this one, positive effect. More — and more variegated — questions are being asked about relationships between public/social policy practice2 and economic performance, both within and between Western countries. However, the very fact that social scientists are now tackling this subject in broader fashion and from a variety of disciplinary and ideological erspectives, has served to highlight inconsistencies in the use of such supposedly standard terms as ‘social policy’, ‘social spending’ and ’welfare state’.

scholarly journals The worlds of welfare: illusory and gender blind?

2004 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 201-211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clare Bambra
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Welfare States ◽  
Ongoing Debate ◽  
Welfare Capitalism ◽  
Individual Welfare ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Policy Variation ◽  
Welfare State Regimes

The nature of welfare state regimes has been an ongoing debate within the comparative social policy literature since the publication of Esping-Andersen's The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism (1990). This paper engages with two aspects of this debate; the gender critique of Esping-Andersen's thesis, and Kasza's (2002) assertions about the ‘illusory nature’ of welfare state regimes. It presents a gender-focused defamilisation index and contrasts it with Esping-Andersen's decommodification index to illustrate that, whilst individual welfare states have been shown to exhibit internal variety across different policy areas, they are both consistent and coherent in terms of their policy variation by gender. It concludes, in contrast to both the gender critique of Esping-Andersen, and Kasza's rejection of the regimes concept, that the ‘worlds of welfare’ approach is therefore neither gender blind or illusory, and can, if limited to the analysis of specific areas such as labour market decommodification or defamilisation, be resurrected as a useful means of organising and classifying welfare states.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document