Productivist Welfare Capitalism: Social Policy in East Asia

Ian Holliday

Political Studies, 2000, vol. 48, issue 4, 706-723

Abstract: The article engages with the literature on the ‘East Asian welfare model’ by using Esping‐Andersen's ‘worlds of welfare capitalism’ approach to analyze social policy in the region. It describes the main features of a productivist world of welfare capitalism that stands alongside Esping‐Andersen's conservative, liberal and social democratic worlds. It then shows that Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan are all part of this world, though they divide into sub‐groups within it. To account for productivist welfare capitalism in East Asia, the article focuses particularly on bureaucratic politics at the unit level, and on a range of key shaping factors at the system level. It closes by considering the implications of East Asian experience for comparative social policy analysis.

Date: 2000
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