The East Asian Welfare Model

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 bird's or satellite's 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 Europe s Attention: The Welfare States Are Up and Running An 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).