Description:
Do the pressures of economic globalization undermine the welfare state? Contrary to the expectations of many analysts, Taiwan and South Korea have embarked on a new trajectory, toward a strengthened welfare state and universal inclusion. In Healthy...
Brief description: Joseph Wong is Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Political Science and Director of the Asian Institute at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Betting on Biotech: Innovation and the Limits of Asia's Developmental State and Healthy Democracies: Welfare Politics in Taiwan and South Korea, both from Cornell, and coeditor of Political Transitions in Dominant Party Systems: Learning to Lose.
Review Quotes:
Healthy Democracies brings a detailed and timely argument to bear against several key orthodoxies of globalization, while at the same time avoiding cultural or social-structural assumptions that serve to occlude rather than explain the complexities and variations of regional development.
--Marc Carcelon "Contemporary Sociology"