Globalizing Welfare

Edited by Stein Kuhnle, Emeritus Professor of Comparative Politics, University of Bergen, Norway and Emeritus Professor, the Hertie School, the University of Governance, Berlin, Germany, Per Selle, Professor of Comparative Politics, University of Bergen and Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Tromso, Norway and Sven E.O. Hort, Formerly Professor of Sociology, Linnaeus University, Sweden and Professor of Social Welfare, Seoul National University, South Korea

Contents: Preface 1. Introduction: Globalizing Welfare: An Evolving Asian-European Dialogue Stein Kuhnle, Per Selle and Sven Hort Part I: Developing East Asian Welfare States: Internal Forces and Outside Influences 2. Korea's Transition from the Developmental to the Universal Welfare State Huck-ju Kwon 3. China's Welfare State Building Yuan Ren 4. The Welfare Regime in China: Towards Moderate Universalism Yi Pan and Ziyu Wang 5. Welfare Development amid Crises: What Hong Kong Can Learn from the Nordic Experiences Raymond K.H. Chan 6. Japan as a Developmental State: The Need for a New Approach Masato Kamikubo 7. Who Are the Caregivers for the Elderly? The Role of Women in the Welfare State in the Nordic Countries and in East Asia Yoko Otsuka and Lingyan Chen 8. Have Japanese Social Welfare NPOs Failed? Emerging Social Enterprises and Major Transformation Masanari Sakurai Part II: Developed North European Welfare States: State and Society in a Globalizing World 9. The Concept of Society in the Making of the Nordic Welfare State Pauli Kettunen 10. Globalization and the Nordic Welfare States Jorgen Goul Andersen 11. Normative Foundations of Nordic Family and Gender Equality Policies: Developments and Challenges Asa Lundqvist 12. Conflicting Ideas on Danish Day Care during the Golden Age of the Danish Welfare State Klaus Petersen 13. Changing Normative Principles of Social Justice in the Norwegian Pension System Rune Ervik, Nanna Kildal, Stein Kuhnle and Tord Skogedal Linden 14. The Future Role of Civil Society in a Welfare State: Perspectives from Germany Helmut K. Anheier 15. The Challenging Position of Civil Society Service Production within the Norwegian Welfare State Per Selle and Kristin Stromsnes Part III: Global Issues and Perspectives 16. Learning from Feminist Scholarship on the Welfare State Marie Laperriere and Ann Shola Orloff 17. An Authoritarian-populist Welfare State? Reassessing the 'Belarusian model' in Comparative Perspective Sven Hort and Nikolay Zakharov 18. Framing Inequality and Related Policy Responses Claus Offe 19. Entangled Inequalities, a Disbalanced Welfare State, and Populist Challenges for Democracy Stephan Leibfried, Kerstin Martens and Uwe Schimank Index