Democracy, Development and Health in Taiwan

Joseph Wong

Chapter 2 in Transforming the Developmental Welfare State in East Asia, 2005, pp 50-72 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract This chapter traces the development of health care policy in postwar Taiwan. Specifically, it explores the political logic of social welfare reform, first under authoritarianism and then later during the period of democratization. This chapter finds, empirically, that continual health policy reform in Taiwan has resulted in a social policy trajectory towards greater inclusion in social welfare. This pattern is particularly evident after the initiation of the demo-cratic transition beginning in the late 1980s. Indeed, the processes of health care reform and health care policy making reflected important political changes, in both the structure of governance as well as in the place of social policy agendas within Taiwan’s larger developmental project. Simply put, democratization facilitated the birth of the welfare state in Taiwan.

Keywords: National Health Insurance; Health Care Reform; Democratic Progressive Party; Democratic Transition; National Health Insurance Programme (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230523661_3

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