What Kind of Welfare State Is Emerging in China?

Stein Ringen and Kinglun Ngok

Chapter 8 in Towards Universal Health Care in Emerging Economies, 2017, pp 213-237 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Through a survey of current social policy arrangements and historical trajectories, the emerging Chinese welfare state is positioned in relation to the main models in the literature on welfare state typologies. It is found that the emerging welfare state in China is developing in response to economic necessity rather than political-ideological drivers, a process which is not original, not socialist, and not developmental. China’s emerging welfare state can be best classified as a fragmented liberal-conservative hybrid model which is limited and defensive in terms of both ambition and practice.

Keywords: Welfare State; Migrant Worker; Urban Resident; Medical Insurance; Social Protection (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-53377-7_8

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