Challenging those who view welfare states in the developing world as either mostly identical or t... more Challenging those who view welfare states in the developing world as either mostly identical or tremendously heterogeneous, some political economy scholars have recently discussed the possibility of systematic variation in welfare capitalism in less developed countries. Rudra (2007), for example, argues that the developing world has systematically evolved into two ideal types: the protective welfare state that emphasizes the government’s role in the “decommodification” of social welfare, and the productive welfare state that aims to integrate labor productivity into social policy. Interestingly, the result of the analysis identifies all of the observed East Asian countries as productive welfare states. Indeed, East Asian countries share some intriguing characteristics distinctive from most Western European and North American states, where the provision of social welfare has long been assumed as being one of the most important policy tasks. The newly industrialized economies (NIEs) i...
Challenging those who view welfare states in the developing world as either mostly identical or t... more Challenging those who view welfare states in the developing world as either mostly identical or tremendously heterogeneous, some political economy scholars have recently discussed the possibility of systematic variation in welfare capitalism in less developed countries. Rudra (2007), for example, argues that the developing world has systematically evolved into two ideal types: the protective welfare state that emphasizes the government’s role in the “decommodification” of social welfare, and the productive welfare state that aims to integrate labor productivity into social policy. Interestingly, the result of the analysis identifies all of the observed East Asian countries as productive welfare states. Indeed, East Asian countries share some intriguing characteristics distinctive from most Western European and North American states, where the provision of social welfare has long been assumed as being one of the most important policy tasks. The newly industrialized economies (NIEs) i...
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