SemesterSpring Semester, 2020
DepartmentMA Program of Political Science, First Year PhD Program of Political Science, First Year MA Program of Political Science, Second Year PhD Program of Political Science, Second Year
Course NameGlobalization and the Welfare States in East Asia
InstructorCHIEN YI-CHUN
Credit3.0
Course TypeElective
Prerequisite
Course Objective
Course Description
Course Schedule

2/20 Introduction



 



2/27 The Emergence of the Welfare State

 



•Kuhnle, Stein and Sander, Anne. 2010. “The Emergence of the Western Welfare State,” Ch. 5 in The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State, ed. by F. G. Castles, S. Leibfried, J. Lewis, H. Obinger and C. Pierson. Oxford: Oxford University Press. P.61-80



•Skocpol, Theda and Edwin Amenta. 1986. “States and Social Policies,” Annual Review of Sociology, vol.12: 131-157.



•T.H. Marshall. 1965. “Citizenship and Social Class,” in Class, Citizenship and Social Development: Essays by T.H. Marshall, Anchor Books.



 



Student workload expectation: 9hrs



 



3/5 Types of Welfare State (I)



•Esping-Andersen, Gøsta. 1990 Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, ch1-3

 



Student workload expectation: 9hrs



 



3/12 Types of Welfare State (II)



•Esping-Andersen, Gøsta. 1990 Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, ch4-6



 



Student workload expectation: 9hrs



 



3/19 Types of Welfare State (III)



•Esping-Andersen, Gøsta. 1990 Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, ch7-9



 



Student workload expectation: 9hrs



 



3/26 Feminist Critics



•Ann Shola Orloff. 1993 “Gender and the Social Rights of Citizenship: The Comparative Analysis of Gender Relations and Welfare States.” American Sociological Review 58:3.



•Julia S. O’Conner, 1996. “From Women in the Welfare State to Gendering Welfare State Regimes.” Current Sociology 44 (2):1-108.



•Mary Daly 2010 “Family versus State and Market” in The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State, ed. by F. G. Castles, S. Leibfried, J. Lewis, H. Obinger and C. Pierson. Oxford: Oxford University Press



 



Student workload expectation: 9hrs



 



4/2 Spring Break



 



4/9 Guest Lecture: The Globalization Paradox



 



4/16 Globalization and Welfare State



•Paul Pierson. 2000. “Post-Industrial Pressures on Mature Welfare States” in Paul Pierson, ed. ?The New Politics of the Welfare State, New York: Oxford University Press.



•Estevez-Abe, Margarita, Iversen, Torben and Soskice, David, 2001. 'Social Protection and the Formation of Skills: A Reinterpretation of the Welfare State'. In Hall, Peter A. and Soskice, David (eds.). Varieties of Capitalism. The Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 145-183.

•Esping-Andersen, Gøsta, 1997. After the Golden Age? Welfare State Dilemmas in a Global Economy. In G. Esping-Andersen (ed. ), Welfare States in Transition: National Adaptations in Global Economies, London: Sage Pub. , pp. 1-30 (chapter 1).



 



Student workload expectation: 9hrs



 



4/23 Immigration and Welfare State



•Will Kymlicka and Keith Banting. 2006. “Immigration, Multiculturalism and the Welfare ?State.” Ethics and International Affairs 20:3.

•Brian Burgoon, Ferry Koster and Marcel van Egmond, 2012. “Support for Redistribution and the Paradox of Immigration”, Journal of European Social Policy, 22 (3): 288-304.

•Markus Crepaz, and Regan Damron, 2009, “Constructing tolerance: How the welfare state shapes attitudes about immigration,” Comparative Political Studies, 42 (3): 437-463


 



Student workload expectation: 9hrs



 



4/30 Paper Proposal Presentation



Student workload expectation: 9hrs



 



5/7 East Asian Welfare States



•Peng, Ito, and Joseph Wong. 2010. "East Asia." In The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State edited by Stephan Leibfried Francis G. Castles, Jane Lewis, Herbert Obinger, and Christopher Pierson, 656-670. Oxford, New York: Oxford

•Catherine Jones, 1993. “Pacific Challenges: Confucian Welfare State.” In New Perspectives on the Welfare State in Europe, ed. Catherine Jones. New York: Routledge. Pp. 198–217.

•Goodman, Roger and Ito Peng, 1996. “The East Asian Welfare States: Peripatetic Learning, Adaptive Change, and Nation-Building.” In G. Esping-Andersen (ed.), Welfare States in Transition: National Adaptations in Global Economies, London: Sage, pp. 192-224 chapter 7.


 



Student workload expectation: 9hrs



 



5/14 Guest Lecture: TBD



 



5/21 Productivist /Developmental Welfare State



•Holliday, Ian. 2000. Productivist Welfare Capitalism: Social Policy in East Asia. Political Studies, 48(4): 706–723.

•Kwon, Huck-Ju. 2005. An Overview of the Study: The Developmental Welfare State and Policy Reforms in East Asia. in H. J. Kwon, ed., Transforming the Developmental Welfare State in East Asia. Basingstoke: Palgrave. Pp. 1–23

•Gough, Ian. 2004. East Asia: The Limits of Productivist Regimes. Pp. 169–201 in Ian. Gough & G. Wood, eds., Insecurity and Welfare Regimes in Asia, Africa and Latin America: Social Policy in Development Contexts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.





Student workload expectation: 9hrs





5/28 Democratization and Welfare State



•Kwon, Huck-Ju. 1998. “Democracy and the Politics of Social Welfare: A Comparative Analysis of Welfare Systems in East Asia.” In The East Asian Welfare Model: Welfare Orientalism and the State, eds. Roger Goodman, Gordon White, and Huck-ju Kwon. New York: Routledge. Pp. 27–74

•Wong, Joseph. 2004. Healthy Democracies: Welfare Politics in Taiwan and South Korea. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. Ch1.

•Haggard, Stephan, and Robert R. Kaufman. 2008. Development, democracy, and welfare states: Latin America, East Asia, and Eastern Europe. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Ch.6



 



Student workload expectation: 9hrs



 



6/4 East Asian Comparisons



•Peng, Ito and Joseph Wong. 2008. “Institutions and Institutional Purpose: Continuity and Change in East Asian Social Policy.” Politics & Society, 36(1): 61–88.



•Fleckenstein, Timo and Lee, Soohyun C. 2017 “Democratization, post-industrialization, and East Asian welfare capitalism: the politics of welfare state reform in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan.” Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy, 33 (1). pp. 36-54.

•Song, Jiyeoun. 2015. "Labour markets, care regimes and foreign care worker policies in East Asia." Social Policy & Administration 49 (3):376-393.



 



Student workload expectation: 9hrs



 



6/11-18 Final Paper Workshop



Student workload expectation: 9hrs



 


Teaching Methods
Teaching Assistant
Requirement/Grading

Reading summaries (x6) 30%

Class presentations and participation 20%

Research Proposal 10%

Research Paper 40%


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