 IntroductionYeun-wen Ku
A chapter in Welfare Capitalism in Taiwan, 1997, pp 1-15 from Palgrave Macmillan Abstract: Abstract In Western societies, the modern welfare state has been developing for over 40 years. Many scholars have made efforts to examine the reasons for the expansion of the welfare state in the advanced capitalist countries, and have produced some excellent theories to explain this process. However, these theories, either from the perspective of industrialization or from the change induced by capitalist development, do not yet offer a full explanation for such development of state welfare in the developing countries. Some possible reasons are suggested below: (a) the theories focus mainly on welfare state development in the advanced capitalist countries, not in the pre- or peripheral capitalist ones; (b) capitalist development in the developing countries is not a spontaneous process, and may have been forced by the advanced capitalist countries; (c) many important features of Western capitalism are impossible to reproduce in the developing countries (e.g, the imperialism of the nineteenth century). Keywords: Welfare State; Capital Accumulation; National Health Insurance Scheme; Capitalist Development; Capitalist Country (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-37787-5_1 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Palgrave Macmillan Books from Palgrave Macmillan |
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