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Healthy Democracies: Welfare Politics in Taiwan and South Korea

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2006

M. Ramesh
M. Ramesh
Affiliation:
National University of Singapore
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Healthy Democracies: Welfare Politics in Taiwan and South Korea. By Joseph Wong. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2004. 222p. $39.95.

Popular perceptions of social policies in East Asia are terribly out of date. Besides, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan have rapidly established social programs that are comparable to those found in Western countries but are often still described as welfare laggards. While public expenditure on social programs is still low, it will rise rapidly as the population ages and programs mature. Commentators on the region are yet to fully grasp the fact that governments there are no longer as single-mindedly focused on economic growth as the stereotypes suggest.

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BOOK REVIEWS: COMPARATIVE POLITICS
Information
Perspectives on Politics , Volume 4 , Issue 1 , March 2006 , pp. 217
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© 2006 American Political Science Association

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