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Book SynopsisElgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.
Since the turn of the millennium, significant social, economic, political and technological transformations have brought policy issues to prominence in East Asian societies. This topical Research Agenda finds East Asian social policy at a critical juncture. It analyses the driving forces that are shifting contemporary research and diverse policy responses in the region.
Providing a comprehensive overview of the critical socio-economic changes and events over the last two decades, the volume identifies both converging and diverging social policy developments and reforms across East Asian societies. Chapters explore the influences of globalisation, post-industrialisation, labour market transformations, demographic changes, and cultural shifts on social policy in East Asia. Taking regional, international and comparative approaches to social policy analysis, the volume also questions the sustainability, vulnerability and equity of current East Asian social policy and welfare systems.
Contributing new empirical knowledge to the theorisation of social policy and practice in East Asia in the post-crisis landscape, this volume will be invaluable to students and scholars of social policy, sociology, and politics. Highlighting areas for urgent policy initiatives, it will also prove vital to policymakers and practitioners in the field.
Trade Review‘Misa Izuhara’s newly edited book offers a timely and carefully-crafted new Research Agenda for East Asian social policy research. It functions as a forward-looking and enlightening guide for social policy scholars in East Asia and even the world to deal with new social risks emerging in the ever-changing socioeconomic environment, especially in the era after the COVID-19 epidemic.’ -- Kinglun Ngok, Sun Yat-sen University, China
Table of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to the Research Agenda for East Asian Social Policy 1 Misa Izuhara 2 Diversity of institutional change in East Asian social investment policy: the cases of Hong Kong and Taiwan 13 Stefan Kühner and Shih-Jiunn Shi 3 Exploring the relationship between social policy and innovation in South Korea 37 Young Jun Choi 4 Public opinion and social policy reforms in East Asia 63 Chung-Yang Yeh and Ijin Hong 5 The introduction of the “mainland frame” in public policy: a case study on framing and political rhetoric in Hong Kong’s climate policy 85 Tommy Chung Yin Kwan 6 Child poverty policies in Japan: familial welfare state in transition? 103 Aya Abe 7 The role of housing in successful and sustainable youth transitions in Japan and South Korea 127 Misa Izuhara and Bongjo Yi 8 The marketisation of long-term care in East Asia 151 Wenjing Zhang 9 Gendered responsibility of multigenerational care: examining ‘defamilialisation’ policies in family-centred welfare regimes in East Asia 171 Junko Yamashita and Naoko Soma 10 Challenging the universal healthcare systems in Southeast Asia: COVID-19 crisis management in Indonesia and the Philippines 197 Huck-Ju Kwon, Ye Eun Ha, Kyungchul Yang, Seongyeon Park, and Sodam Yi Index 221
