Healthy democracies
Subtitle: welfare politics in Taiwan and South Korea
By: Joseph Wong.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
Subjects: Public welfare -- Taiwan.; Democracy -- Taiwan.; Public welfare -- Korea (South); Democracy -- Korea (South); Taiwan -- Social policy.; Korea (South) -- Social policy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-200) and index.
Table of contents: title: Democratization and the welfare state; title: A dynamic policymaking framework; title: Authoritarianism and the origins of social insurance; title: Democratic breakthrough and universal health care; title: Coalition building in Korea; title: Resisting retrenchment in Taiwan; title: Democracy and the idea of social welfare; title: Defending democracy.