Class Division, Social Movements, Democratization and State Welfare

Yeun-wen Ku
Additional contact information
Yeun-wen Ku: National Chi-Nan University

Chapter 8 in Welfare Capitalism in Taiwan, 1997, pp 200-239 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In the previous chapters, we have revealed the significant role of the state in promoting capitalist development via both its strictly physical and its ideological dominance. One question remains in our minds; if state control is so complete, how could any opposition emerge to challenge the existing authority, or even lead the authoritarian regime’s transformation to a more democratic one in which the state shares its power with the people? Echoing Marx’s view that class and class conflict are the major dynamics leading to social change, we argue that the degree of state control is related to variations in the social structure. As the process of capitalist development shapes class formation in a given society, a seed of instability gets buried into the social structure that will affect, to some extent, state power.

Keywords: Collective Action; Social Movement; National Health Insurance Scheme; Capitalist Development; Colonial Government (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1997
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-37787-5_9

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.palgrave.com/9780230377875

DOI: 10.1057/9780230377875_9

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Palgrave Macmillan Books from Palgrave Macmillan
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().