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Managing Social Change and Social Policy in Greater China: Welfare Regimes in Transition?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 March 2014

Ka Ho Mok  and
John Hudson
Ka Ho Mok
Affiliation:
Department of Asian and Policy Studies, The Hong Kong Institute of Education E-mail: kahomok@ied.edu.hk
John Hudson
Affiliation:
Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of York E-mail: john.hudson@york.ac.uk
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Discussion of welfare regimes and welfare state ideal types continues to dominate comparative social policy analysis, but the focus of the debate has expanded considerably since the publication of Esping-Andersen's (1990) groundbreaking The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism. Shifts in this debate have been prompted by a mixture of theoretical and empirical concerns raised by comparative social policy scholars, but they have also resulted from a more general internationalisation of social policy research agendas within the academy too. In particular, there has been a strong desire to expand the scope of the debate to encompass nations and regions not included in Esping-Andersen's initial study of just eighteen high income OECD states.

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Themed Section on Managing Social Change and Social Policy in Greater China: Welfare Regimes in Transition?
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Social Policy and Society , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , April 2014 , pp. 235 - 238
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 

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