JOHN DIXON is head of the Department of Social Sciences at Lingnan College in Hong Kong.ROBERT P. SCHEURELL is Associate Professor of Social Welfare at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee.

• Acknowledgments Introduction Social Security and the Ghosts that Haunt It by John Dixon Historical Perspectives Social Security in the United States by Max J. Skidmore Japanese Social Security: Its Past, Present, and Future by Mitsuya Ichien Politics of Illiberal Capitalism: The State, Industrialization and Social Security in South Korea by M Ramesh National Overviews Rural Populations, Social Security, and Legal Pluralism in the Central Moluccas of Eastern Indonesia by Franz von Benda-Beckmann and Keebet von Benda-Beckmann An Examination of the Roles of the State, Networks, and the Family in Philippines Social Security by Frank Hirtz Social Security Reforms in China by Nelson W. S. Chow Social Security and Redistribution: The Case of Zimbabwe by Edwin Kaseke Social Security in Yugoslavia: Change or Continuity in the 1990s by Miroslav Ruzica Income Programs for the Elderly in Malaysia: A Policy Process Analysis by Martin Booth Tracy Program Analyses Financial Support for Long-Term Institutional Care in Britain by Anne Corden The Right to Medical Health Care for the Disabled in Sweden by Lotta Westerhall Industrial Accidents: Why should They have Special Preferential Conditions by Celso Barroso Leite Index

JOHN DIXON is head of the Department of Social Sciences at Lingnan College in Hong Kong.ROBERT P. SCHEURELL is Associate Professor of Social Welfare at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee.

• Acknowledgments Introduction Social Security and the Ghosts that Haunt It by John Dixon Historical Perspectives Social Security in the United States by Max J. Skidmore Japanese Social Security: Its Past, Present, and Future by Mitsuya Ichien Politics of Illiberal Capitalism: The State, Industrialization and Social Security in South Korea by M Ramesh National Overviews Rural Populations, Social Security, and Legal Pluralism in the Central Moluccas of Eastern Indonesia by Franz von Benda-Beckmann and Keebet von Benda-Beckmann An Examination of the Roles of the State, Networks, and the Family in Philippines Social Security by Frank Hirtz Social Security Reforms in China by Nelson W. S. Chow Social Security and Redistribution: The Case of Zimbabwe by Edwin Kaseke Social Security in Yugoslavia: Change or Continuity in the 1990s by Miroslav Ruzica Income Programs for the Elderly in Malaysia: A Policy Process Analysis by Martin Booth Tracy Program Analyses Financial Support for Long-Term Institutional Care in Britain by Anne Corden The Right to Medical Health Care for the Disabled in Sweden by Lotta Westerhall Industrial Accidents: Why should They have Special Preferential Conditions by Celso Barroso Leite Index

JOHN DIXON is head of the Department of Social Sciences at Lingnan College in Hong Kong.ROBERT P. SCHEURELL is Associate Professor of Social Welfare at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee.

• Acknowledgments Introduction Social Security and the Ghosts that Haunt It by John Dixon Historical Perspectives Social Security in the United States by Max J. Skidmore Japanese Social Security: Its Past, Present, and Future by Mitsuya Ichien Politics of Illiberal Capitalism: The State, Industrialization and Social Security in South Korea by M Ramesh National Overviews Rural Populations, Social Security, and Legal Pluralism in the Central Moluccas of Eastern Indonesia by Franz von Benda-Beckmann and Keebet von Benda-Beckmann An Examination of the Roles of the State, Networks, and the Family in Philippines Social Security by Frank Hirtz Social Security Reforms in China by Nelson W. S. Chow Social Security and Redistribution: The Case of Zimbabwe by Edwin Kaseke Social Security in Yugoslavia: Change or Continuity in the 1990s by Miroslav Ruzica Income Programs for the Elderly in Malaysia: A Policy Process Analysis by Martin Booth Tracy Program Analyses Financial Support for Long-Term Institutional Care in Britain by Anne Corden The Right to Medical Health Care for the Disabled in Sweden by Lotta Westerhall Industrial Accidents: Why should They have Special Preferential Conditions by Celso Barroso Leite Index