Healthy Democracies: Welfare Politics in Taiwan and South Korea

by Joseph Wong

Book Overview

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 Democracies, Joseph Wong offers a political explanation for health care reform in these two countries. He focuses specifically on the ways in which democratic change in Taiwan and South Korea altered...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801443008
• ISBN13: 9780801443008
• Release Date: December 2004
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 209 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher