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Lee explains development and retrenchment of the welfare states in developing countries through an explanatory model based around 'embedded cohesiveness'.
List of contents
List of figures; List of tables; Preface; Abbreviations; Part I: 1. Introduction; 2. Revisiting the theories of welfare states in developing countries; 3. Theoretical discussion: the structures of associational networks and labor politics; Part II: 4. The origin of top-down solidarity in South Korea; 5. Embeddedness, cohesiveness, and the politics of social policy expansion in South Korea: universal vs. selective reforms; 6. The survival and decline of embeddedness under retrenchment drives: the politics of retrenchment under market reforms: Part III: 7. Comparative case studies I: market-orientated reforms of welfare states and union responses in Argentina and Brazil; 8. Comparative case studies II: market-orientated reforms of welfare states and union responses in South Korea and Taiwan; 9. Comparative case studies III: associational networks and welfare states in Argentina, Brazil, South Korea and Taiwan; 10. Conclusion; Appendix A. Interviewee profiles; Appendix B. Measurement of associational networks; Appendix C. Game theoretical models; Appendix D. Supplementary analyses: the structure of South Korean civic networks in the 2000s; Appendix E. Generalization: findings from the cross-national quantitative analyses; Bibliography; Index.
About the author
Cheol-Sung Lee is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago. His research interests lie in comparative welfare states and politics of inequality, and specifically upon the evolution and transformation of modern welfare states. His work has been published in the American Sociological Review, Social Forces, Sociological Theory, World Politics, and Comparative Political Studies.
