The Emergence of the East Asian Welfare State

Thesis (M.A.) aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Soziales System, Sozialstruktur, Klasse, Schichtung, Note: 1,7, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena (Institut für Soziologie), 69 Eintragungen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Englisch, Anmerkungen: This work analyses the specific structural characteristics and development specialities of East Asian welfare states. In a historical, qualitative and quantitative comparison of welfare development in East Asia and Southern Europe the East Asian 'tigers' (despite all intraregional differences) are described as 'welfare societies without welfare state', The decisive foundation of this kind of welfarism is a 'Confucian productivism'. , Abstract: This work analyses the specific structural characteristics and development specialities of East Asian welfare states. In a historical, qualitative and quantitative comparison of welfare development in East Asia and Southern Europe the East Asian tigers (despite all intraregional differences) are described as welfare societies without welfare state, The decisive foundation of this kind of welfarism is a Confucian productivism.