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1 online resource (xvii, 249 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Summary |
"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"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Preface and acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- The Underdeveloped Small Welfare State in South Korea -- Existing Regionally Specific Explanations and Unsolved Questions -- Legacies of the Developmental State and General Theories Revisited in the Korean Context -- Historical Overview of the Korean Welfare State -- Institution Building during the Developmental State |
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Continuity of the Underdevelopment of the Korean Welfare State after DemocratizationMethodology, Contributions, and the Organization of the Book -- 2 Theoretical Reinterpretation of the Small Welfare State in South Korea -- The Korean Welfare State in Comparative Perspective -- Theoretical Understanding of the Small Welfare State in South Korea -- Logic of Industrialism, EOI, and Employers in the Korean Context -- Power-Resources Model and Organized Labor in the Korean Context -- Democracy and Electoral Rules in the Korean Context -- Statism in the Korean Context |
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Concluding Remarks3 The Emergence of the Small Welfare State under the Authoritarian Developmental State (1961â#x80;#x93;1987) -- The Rise of the Developmental State, New State-Society Relations, and Centralization of State Bureaucracy -- Introduction of the First Compulsory Social Insurance -- Implications of Export-Oriented Industrialization for Welfare Politics and Poverty Reduction -- The Yushin Regime and Heavy and Chemical Industrialization -- The Social Consequences of the HCI Drive -- â#x80;#x9C;Reaganomics before Reaganâ#x80;#x9D; and Formation of the Low Tax Regime |
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Welfare Politics under the Yushin RegimeThe National Welfare Pension Scheme -- Implementing Health Insurance -- Neo-Conservative Economic Reforms and Enterprise Unionism Enforced under the Authoritarian Fifth Republic (1980â#x80;#x93;1987) -- Fiscal Conservatism and the Emergence of Corporate Welfare -- Concluding Remarks -- 4 Democratization and Limited Welfare State Development under the Conservative Rule (1988â#x80;#x93;1997) -- From Authoritarianism to Democratic Rule: Institutional Reform during the Elite-Negotiated Democratic Transition |
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Labor and Civil Society Activism but the Failed Leftist Party MovementWelfare Politics during the Democratic Transition -- The Politics of Health Insurance -- Pension Politics -- The Conservative Grand Coalition and Institutionalization of Enterprise Unionism -- New Management Strategies and Corporate Welfare -- Neoliberal Economic Reforms under the Kim Young Sam Government (1993â#x80;#x93;1997) -- Segyehwa Campaign and Probusiness Neoliberal Economic Reforms -- Failed Experiments in Tripartitism -- Welfare Politics during the Segyehwa Campaign |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Korea (South) -- Economic conditions -- 1960-1988.
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Korea (South) |
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Economic conditions. |
| Chronological Term |
1960-1988 |
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Korea (South) -- Economic conditions -- 1988-2002.
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1988-2002 |
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Korea (South) -- Economic conditions -- 2002-
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2002- |
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Welfare state -- Korea (South)
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Welfare state. |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- International. |
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- General. |
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Reference. |
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Economic history. |
| Chronological Term |
Since 1960 |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Yang, Chae-jin. Political economy of the small welfare state in South Korea. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2017 9781108415903 (DLC) 2017009822 (OCoLC)974018922 |
| ISBN |
9781108257015 (electronic book) |
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1108257011 (electronic book) |
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9781108235419 (ebook) |
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1108235417 |
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9781108402484 (paperback) |
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1108402488 |
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9781108415903 (hardcover) |
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1108415903 (print) |
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