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The Political Economy of the Small Welfare State in South Korea (Hardcover)
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The Political Economy of the Small Welfare State in South Korea (Hardcover)
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This book explains why the Korean welfare state is underdeveloped
despite successful industrialization, democratization, a militant
labor movement, and a centralized meritocracy. Unlike most social
science books on Korea, which tend to focus on its developmental
state and rapid economic development, this book deals with social
welfare issues and politics during the critical junctures in
Korea's history: industrialization in the 1960-70s, the
democratization and labor movement in the mid-1980s, globalization
and the financial crisis in the 1990s, and the wind of free welfare
in the 2010s. It highlights the self-interested activities of
Korea's enterprise unionism at variance with those of a more
solidaristic industrial unionism in the European welfare states.
Korean big business, the chaebol, accommodated the unions' call for
higher wages and more corporate welfare, which removed practical
incentives for unions to demand social welfare. Korea's
single-member-district electoral rules also induce politicians to
sell geographically targeted, narrow benefits rather than public
welfare for all while presidents are significantly constrained by
unpopular tax increase issues. Strong economic bureaucrats acting
as veto player also lead Korea to a small welfare state.
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