Social and Economic Policies in Korea: Ideas, Networks and Linkages (Routledge Advances in Korean Studies, 3)

✍ Scribed by Dong-Myeon Shin

• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 262
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The sustained remarkable economic growth in the East Asian countries - Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore - has brought about a great deal of debate over the role of the state in the market and society. Shin analyses the dynamic process of state interventions in the economy and social affairs in Korea from the early 1960s until the present with special reference to five policy areas: macro-economic policy, industrial policy, social security policy, labour policy, and education and training policy.Social and Economic Policies in Korea develops a unique explanation about the development of Korean social policy using the concepts of 'policy idea', 'policy network', and 'policy-linkages' to examine the causes, patterns and consequences of state interventions in the economy and social affairs over time. It should interest students and researchers of East Asian studies, social policy and development studies.

✦ Table of Contents

Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 8
List of tables......Page 11
List of figures......Page 13
Acknowledgements......Page 15
List of abbreviations......Page 17
Introduction......Page 21
The scope of the research and some definitions......Page 26
Research methods......Page 28
Organisation of the book......Page 29
The roles of the state in the economy and social welfare......Page 31
Characteristics of globalisation......Page 32
State intervention in the market......Page 34
Welfare states and changing roles of the state......Page 40
Conclusion......Page 48
A theoretical framework for analysing the process of policy formation and change......Page 49
A model for analysing policy formation and change......Page 60
Conclusion......Page 66
Social and economic policies during the export-led industrialisation of the 1960s......Page 67
Changes of institutions and setting veto points......Page 72
Export-oriented industrialisation and state intervention......Page 75
Social welfare: an etatist welfare system......Page 82
Policy linkages between economic and social policies......Page 88
Conclusion......Page 95
Social and economic policies during the heavy and chemical industrialisation of the 1970s......Page 97
The authoritarian developmental state and the state business relationship......Page 99
HCI and state intervention: a model of the developmental state......Page 105
Social welfare: a residual welfare system......Page 108
Policy linkages between economic and social policies......Page 114
Conclusion......Page 124
Stabilisation, liberalisation and social policies: 1980 1992......Page 125
Democratic transition and the growth of chaebols......Page 127
Economic stabilisation and liberalisation......Page 132
Social security: towards a regulator......Page 138
Policy linkages between economic and social policies......Page 145
Conclusion......Page 154
Social and economic policies under globalisation: 1993 1997......Page 156
Globalisation and economic policy......Page 163
A Korean welfare model?......Page 167
Policy linkages between economic and social policies: towards a business-friendly social policy?......Page 175
Conclusion......Page 189
Financial crisis, economic policy and social policy: 1998 present......Page 191
Crony capitalism versus the punishment of international capital......Page 192
The demise of the Korean development model......Page 195
From an economic crisis to a social crisis......Page 199
The paradox of Korea: towards an institutional welfare system......Page 202
Policy networks, public perceptions and social policy......Page 208
Conclusion......Page 212
Conclusions......Page 213
Policy linkages: embedded social policy......Page 218
The welfare regime in Korea and its viability......Page 222
Epilogue: assessment of the existing social security system in Korea......Page 226
Feasibility......Page 227
Gender equality......Page 228
Costs of administration......Page 229
Accountability and transparency......Page 230
Notes......Page 231
Bibliography......Page 235
Index......Page 256