Social Construction of Gender Inequality in the Housing System: Housing Experiences of Women in Hong Kong. Kim Wah ChanWelfare in Newly-Industrialised Society: The Construction of the Welfare State in Hong Kong. Raymond K. H. ChanSocial Policy in Hong Kong. Paul Wilding , Ahmed Shafiqul Huque , Julia Tao Lai Po-Wah

2000 ◽  
Vol 44 ◽  
pp. 225-228
Author(s):  
Janet Salaff
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Housing System ◽  
Social Construction Of Gender ◽  
Experiences Of Women ◽  
The Welfare State

Gender inequality, the welfare state, disability, and distorted commodification of care in Turkey

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-31
Author(s):  
Reyhan Atasü-Topcuoğlu
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Shadow Economy ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Path Dependent ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Turkish Case ◽  
Care Regimes ◽  
The Welfare State

Abstract Reforming care regimes to cover the care deficit and enhancing the marketization of care to promote individualism and gender equality have been on the European agenda since the 1990s. However, both implementation and results have been path-dependent. This study first underlines some specificities in the Turkish case—namely, the limited welfare state, a large shadow economy, gender roles, patriarchal backlash, Islamization, and neoliberalism, all of which receive little treatment in the welfare state literature. It then analyzes how these specificities interact in the construction of the care regime in Turkey, conceptualizing the outcome as distorted commodification of care—namely, the continuing ambiguity of care services despite these activities producing precarity and positional suffering for caregivers and recipients. Finally, the study provides concrete examples from the less studied topic of long-term disability care. It presents a perspective on Turkey that foregrounds the connections between gendered care imagery and case-specific qualities of the commodification of care shaped by the long-standing shadow economy, the outsourcing of disability services to for-profit private companies, and the introduction of the cash-for-care policy. The study analyzes the outcomes of distorted commodification of care under these conditions in Turkey vis-à-vis visibility, valuation of work, working conditions, and gender inequality.

Rethinking the Western Construction of the Welfare State

1996 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Walker ◽  
Chack-Kie Wong
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
Welfare Regimes ◽  
Asian Pacific ◽  
Welfare State Regimes ◽  
Populous Country ◽  
Pacific Area ◽  
The Welfare State

This article employs case studies of China and Hong Kong to question the western ethnocentric construction of the welfare state that predominates in comparative social policy research. The authors argue that welfare regimes, and particularly the “welfare state,” have been constructed as capitalist-democratic projects and that this has the damaging effect of excluding from analyses not only several advanced capitalist societies in the Asian-Pacific area but also the world's most populous country. If welfare state regimes can only coexist with western political democracies, then China and Hong Kong are excluded automatically. A similar result occurs if the traditional social administration approach is adopted whereby a “welfare state” is defined in terms only of direct state provision. The authors argue that such assumptions are untenable if state welfare is to be analyzed as a universal phenomenon. Instead of being trapped within an ethnocentric welfare statism, what social policy requires is a global political economy perspective that facilitates comparisons of the meaning of welfare and the state's role in producing it north, south, east and west.

Cutback Contradictions in Dutch Housing Policy

1986 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 223-236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rob Flynn
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Housing Policy ◽  
Housing System ◽  
Current Crisis ◽  
Dutch Politics ◽  
Social Cleavages ◽  
Housing Subsidies ◽  
Dutch Housing ◽  
Levels Of Support ◽  
The Welfare State

ABSTRACTThis paper describes housing policy in the Netherlands and the current crisis over subsidies. It argues that the development of the welfare state, the housing system, and recent retrenchment contain contradictions which reflect the distinctive nature of Dutch politics and social structure. In particular, it suggests that the existence of pillarized social cleavages has been influential in the growth of a progressive welfare state, in providing a secure base for social rented housing, and in sustaining high levels of support for spending on housing subsidies. Expenditure cutbacks and measures for administrative rationalization are outlined, and some of the contradictory effects on housing policy are examined.

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