Overview
This book revisits after about close to 20 years the East Asian Welfare Model when looked at from an ideal-typical perspective. Ideal-typical welfare regimes do not change, in general, quickly, they are stable, due to the higher level of observation applied (using a high-flying bird’s or satellite’s perspective). Twenty years, however, are a long time also in welfare state system development. A great deal of mega events and mega trends have impacted on social policy all over the world in these last two decades. These include the Covid 19 pandemic, gender movements, rock-bottom low overall fertility (in the post-industrial setting), global production shifts (a.k.a. globalization of industrial production), and last but not least technological revolution brought upon by super-digitalization and artificial intelligence applications, and information society in general, and with it technological unemployment of a large parts of a whole new generation having become unemployable while they have been highly trained at college and university levels. It is high time to look at East Asia welfare state systems up close again, and the right theoretical and methodological lens, i.e. applying ideal-typical theory and methodology, to an otherwise not graspable fully dynamic and intertwined phenomenon: continued welfare state growth amidst crises and change.
Full Product Details
Author: Christian Aspalter
Publisher: Springer Verlag, Singapore
Imprint: Springer Verlag, Singapore
ISBN: 9789819568086
ISBN 10: 9819568080
Pages: 297
Publication Date: 18 April 2026
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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College/higher education
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Professional & Vocational
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming
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Author Information
Christian Aspalter has published over 25 books in Social Policy, Economics, and Health Policy. He is one of the leading theorists in social policy, quantum social science, and quantum economics. He is the author of Quantum Economics: The New Economics of Communication, Power and Power Relations (Elgar), Ten Worlds of Welfare Capitalism: A Global Data Analysis (Springer), Human Entanglement Theory (Springer), Super Inequality (Springer), and Democratization and Welfare State Development in Taiwan (Routledge), plus the editor of Covid 19 Pandemic (Springer), Elgar Research Encyclopedia of Social Policy (fc.), Quantum Social Science (fc.), Financing Welfare State Systems in Asia, Ideal Types in Comparative Social Policy, The Routledge International Handbook to Welfare State Systems, Social Work in East Asia, Discovering the Welfare State in East Asia, as well as the co-editor of Health Care Systems in Developing Countries in Asia, Health Care Systems in Europe and Asia, Development and Social Policy, plus Active Aging in Asia.
