Political enthusiasm for social pensions and its eventual decline in Taiwan: an institutional account of pension dynamics in a new democracy

Lin, Yei-Whei

doi:10.1080/02185377.2016.1273125

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“…The first point stresses that social welfare expansion is ascribed as an outcome of the power struggles of a social coalition of a center‐left party, trade union and civic movements in policy decision‐making. Several studies (Fleckenstein & Lee, 2017; Kim, 2019; Lin, 2017), referring to South Korea and Taiwan, argued some EA countries which expressed enthusiasm for tax‐funded welfare benefits and universal welfare have been attributed to this causation. Meanwhile, the democratization thesis suggests that the most important sources of social policy expansion have been the intensity of democracy stability, in terms of elections, power distributions and checks and balances.…”

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“…To this point, a vast array of subsequent academic endeavours have tried to develop other perspectives with different case experiences beyond the economic‐centric perspective. It has mostly been argued that social policy expansion in this region, at its core, was also caused by the increase in left power (Kim & Shi, 2020; Lin, 2017). Taking its cue from influential theoretical accounts of social policy expansion in EA (Aspalter, 2006; Gough, 2004; Holliday, 2000; Yang, 2017), they have attempted to challenge the previous political approach and argued that the leftist movement and political forces of the existing social democratic party are very weak.…”

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The complementary roles between clientelism and familism in social policy development

Yuda

2021

Soc Policy Adm

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What drives social policy development? Most of the literature addressing this issue focuses on the economic crisis and the increase in left power as its causation. On the basis of the Indonesian case, this paper engages in a debate about the clouts of clientelism and familial ethics in shaping social policy path development. This article claims that the quick replacement of productivist welfare regimes with the more inclusive system after Asian Financial Crisis is motivated by increased elites' interest in repositioning their clientelistic network within a public institution. This is occurring while familial precepts are being used as effective moral politics in encouraging kinship networks to internalize social risks during the regime replacement process. Overall, the case of Indonesia reflects the common characteristic of welfare regimes development in East Asian countries where efforts to modernize social policy are conditioned under a situation where democracy is not well‐established and the post‐modern family structure has not fully matured either. Consequently, the development of social policy to a large extent is still confined within a huge clientelistic influence and implemented under the familial ideology. This situation has ultimately retarded welfare state development.

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The complementary roles between clientelism and familism in social policy development

Yuda

2021

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“…Most publications that investigate the political determinants/causes of social assistance programs focus on party politics. The effect of political ideology on the social assistance policy-making processes is widely examined (Carnes and Mares, 2013 ; Aytaç, 2014 ; Göçmen, 2014 ; Lin, 2017 ; Silvestre, 2017 ; Borges, 2018 ). Within the limited scope of political analyses, contentious political factors are much less examined than party politics and governmentality.…”

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The squeaky wheel gets the grease: Violent civil unrest and global social assistance provision

Çemen

Yörük

2022

Front. Sociol.

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What are the contemporary determinates of social assistance provision? What is the role of contentious politics? Social assistance literature is dominated by economic and demographic accounts, which under-examine the possibility that governments extend social assistance to contain social unrest. We test factors associated with these “structuralist” and “political” theories on a new panel dataset which includes 54 OECD and emerging market countries between 2002 and 2015. The results indicate social assistance coverage has a significant positive relationship with riots. We explain this outcome as policymakers expanding social assistance as a means of containing violent civil unrest. This effect is more significant in emerging markets, suggesting that the domination of structural explanations is a result of sample bias toward the OECD. Finally, we find that governments consider World Bank social policy recommendations only insofar as there is violent unrest.

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Can rural elderly groups be supported by increasing the pension contribution rate?

Lin,

Xu,

Song

2024

Heliyon

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Political enthusiasm for social pensions and its eventual decline in Taiwan: an institutional account of pension dynamics in a new democracy

Cited by 8 publications

References 29 publications

The complementary roles between clientelism and familism in social policy development

The complementary roles between clientelism and familism in social policy development

The squeaky wheel gets the grease: Violent civil unrest and global social assistance provision

Can rural elderly groups be supported by increasing the pension contribution rate?

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