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Using defamilisation typologies to study the Confucian welfare regime

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2020

Sam Yu ,
C.M. Chau  and
K.M. Lee
Sam Yu*
Affiliation:
Department of Social Work, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong
C.M. Chau
Affiliation:
Independent Researcher
K.M. Lee
Affiliation:
Division of Social Sciences, Community College of City University, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong
*
*Corresponding author. Email: samyu@hkbu.edu.hk
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Abstract

Since Esping-Andersen classified the 18 Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries into the “three worlds of welfare capitalism” in 1990, the comparative studies of welfare have been dominated by the responses to this study. This paper focuses on two of these responses. The first response is concerned with the gender insensitivity of Esping-Andersen's way of categorizing the welfare regimes. The second response is concerned with the issue that the East Asian countries are under-represented in the 18 OECD countries. To make contributions to these responses, two analytical tasks are conducted. First, we build new defamilisation typologies covering both East Asian countries and OECD countries. Second, we demonstrate that the evidence generated from the typologies suggest that some of the indispensable conditions for the development of a Confucian welfare regime do not exist.

Keywords

East Asiadefamilisation typologiesConfucian ideas
Type
Research Article
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Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy , Volume 31 , Issue 1 , February 2015 , pp. 74 - 93
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Copyright © 2015 Taylor & Francis

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