A Research Agenda for East Asian Social Policy

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A Research Agenda for East Asian Social Policy

9781800376106 Edward Elgar Publishing
Edited by Misa Izuhara, Professor of Social Policy, University of Bristol, UK
Publication Date: 2023 ISBN: 978 1 80037 610 6 Extent: 240 pp
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 and analyses the driving forces that are shifting contemporary research and diverse policy responses in the region.

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Elgar 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.
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‘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
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Contributors: Aya Abe, Young Jun Choi, Ye Eun Ha, Ijin Hong, Misa Izuhara, Stefan Kühner, Tommy Chung-yin Kwan, Huck-ju Kwon, Seongyeon Park, Shih-Jiunn Shi, Naoko Soma, Junko Yamashita, Kyungchul Yang, Chung-Yang Yeh, Bongjo Yi, Sodam Yi, Wenjing Zhang
Contents
Contents:

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

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