Title: The Relationship between Social Policy and Economic Policy: Constructing the Public Burden of Welfare in China and the West*
Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to explore the °∞public burden°± characterization of welfare in two very different economic and cultural settings. Long familiar in the West, its causes, nonetheless, have not been examined. Moreover, as we demonstrate, an identical orientation to welfare is also found in China. To understand this apparently universal construction of a negative relationship between social policy and economic policy, we employ a novel tripartite framework. This analysis starts with economic ideology but concludes that two additional explanatory factors are necessary: institutional or regime differences and, in the case of China, the level of economic development
Publication Year: 2009
Publication Date: 2009-06-01
Language: en
Type: article
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