The Developmental Welfare State and Social Policy: Shifting From Basic to Universal Social Protection*

Dostal, Jörg Michael

doi:10.52372/kjps25308

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“…For example, social housing provision in East Asian countries is generally considered as developmental welfare signifying a combination of economic policy and social policy. Social expenditures are seen not as detracting from but as contributing positively to economic development Jorg, 2010;Midgley & Tang, 2001;Shuid, 2016). For instance, the provision of social housing in East Asia has long been connected with poverty, resettlement and extreme housing shortage (Forrest & Lee, 2003).…”

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Social housing as a multi-functional tool: understanding the social housing expansion in Nanjing, China

2023

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While the retreat of state from social housing sector has been a mainstream trend worldwide in the past decades under neoliberalism, the Chinese government returned to its role of social housing provision since the year 2007. This triggers an interesting question about why the Chinese government prioritizes housing provision as a major national project in an era of emphasizing economic growth. This article intends to uncover the rationale behind the phenomenon. It gives a concrete understanding of the motivations of social housing intervention at the municipal level in China through reviewing the social housing policies in Nanjing. It is found that the motivations underpinning large-scale social housing supply are complex, which can be related to political pressure, housing equality and economic considerations. This research enriches housing intervention research with a Chinese urban background.

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Social housing as a multi-functional tool: understanding the social housing expansion in Nanjing, China

2023

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The Political Economy of the Small Welfare State in South Korea

Yang

2017

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This book explains why the Korean welfare state is underdeveloped despite successful industrialization, democratization, a militant labor movement, and a centralized meritocracy. Unlike most social science books on Korea, which tend to focus on its developmental state and past years' rapid economic development, this book deals with social welfare issues and politics during the critical junctures in Korea's history: industrialization in the 1960–70s, the democratization and labor movement in the mid-1980s, globalization and the financial crisis in the 1990s and the 'wind of free welfare' in the 2010s. It highlights the self-interested activities of Korea's militant enterprise unionism at variance with those of a more solidaristic industrial unionism in the European welfare states. Korean big business, the chaebol, accommodated the unions' call for higher wages and more corporate welfare, which removed practical incentives for unions to demand social welfare. Korea's single-member-district electoral rules also induce politicians to sell geographically targeted, narrow benefits rather than public welfare for all.

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