"This book presents a new step farther into the twenty-first century, for the first time truly combining a comprehensive global data analysis with social policy theory development. The theory of global ideal-typical welfare regimes, also known as the “Ten Worlds of Welfare Regime Theory”, as...

This paper looks at welfare state systems in two city states, Singapore and Hong Kong. It traces the causes of welfare state development by investigating the history and politics of social welfare policy, and looks at social welfare institutions from a real-typical perspective, focusing on...

The pathway followed by the Korean welfare state is particularly interesting: some forms of welfare provision originated during the authoritarian period, but mostly aiming at obtaining political legitimation and public support. However, the situation began to change with the end of the military...

This study is the outcome of a one-month-long research trip to New Dehli in the year 2000. The paper addresses the relationship between national building and the functioning of the State on the one hand and the making of the Indian welfare system as it is today. At the same time – and, more...

This book offers a wide selection of country studies on different types of welfare capitalism from an real-typical point of view. It has been one of the few books ever to cover a great deal of welfare state system from around the world, depicting monumentally different ways in conceiving and...