Healthy Democracies : Welfare Politics in Taiwan and South Korea

經濟全球化的壓力會破壞福利國家嗎？與許多分析師的期望相反，台灣和韓國已經走上了一條新的軌道，朝著加強福利國家和普遍包容的方向發展。在健康的民主國家，約瑟夫·黃為這兩個國家的醫療改革提供了政治解釋。他特別關注台灣和韓國的民主變革如何改變當代醫療辯論中政策制定者和社會政策活動家的激勵機制以及最終決策.Wong使用廣泛的實地研究和訪談來探索相似性和微妙差異。台灣和韓國的政治變革和醫療改革進程。

他認為，在專制統治時期，兩地的國家領導人在政治上有能力推行有選擇性的社會政策改革是零碎的，醫療保健政策的結果遠非普遍。 Wong認為，民主改革的引入改變了社會政策改革的政治邏輯：投票尋求政治家需要推動民眾政策，醫療改革倡導者，從官僚到基層活動家，都適應了這種新的政治環境。在黃的看來，台灣和韓國的民主轉型政治已經成為全球化進程中社會福利裁員所假設的經濟需要的有效解毒劑。“

Do the pressures of economic globalization undermine the welfare state? Contrary to the expectations of many analysts, Taiwan and South Korea have embarked on a new trajectory, toward a strengthened welfare state and universal inclusion. In Healthy Democracies, Joseph Wong offers a political explanation for health care reform in these two countries. He focuses specifically on the ways in which democratic change in Taiwan and South Korea altered the incentives and ultimately the decisions of policymakers and social policy activists in contemporary health care debates.Wong uses extensive field research and interviews to explore both similarities and subtle differences in the processes of political change and health care reform in Taiwan and South Korea.

During the period of authoritarian rule, he argues, state leaders in both places could politically afford to pursue selective social policies reform was piecemeal and health care policy outcomes far from universal. Wong finds that the introduction of democratic reform changed the political logic of social policy reform: vote-seeking politicians needed to promote popular policies, and health care reform advocates, from bureaucrats to grassroots activists, adapted to this new political context. In Wong's view, the politics of democratic transition in Taiwan and South Korea has served as an effective antidote to the presumed economic imperatives of social welfare retrenchment during the process of globalization."

Joseph Wong (Autor) 

Publisher:Cornell University Press 

ISBN:    978-0801443008 

原價  US  57.95   台幣價 NT$1970