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Politics of Social Policy-Making in South Korea and Japan
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- Issue Date
- 2008
- Citation
- Korean Journal of Policy Studies, Vol.22 No.2, pp. 109-133
- Keywords
- Japan ; Korea ; Policy-Making ; Welfare Politics
- Abstract
- Until recently, welfare politics in Korea and Japan tended to be dominated by conservative forces "from above." This paper investigates the formation and domination of such forces from above, with a focus on the interaction between institutional arrangements and strategic maneuvering by political actors which, I argue, constitutes the politics of (social) policy-making. The notion of the politics of social policy-making aims to provide a more politically and institutionally sensitive framework than the pluralist analysis of policy-making. Korea and Japan share some crucial institutional legacies of the "developemental state" and "group-coordinated market economies." At the same time, attention should also be paid to different institutional configurations, such as a strong presidential system and first-past-the-post voting in Korea and a parliamentary system and single non-transferable vote in Japan. The main research question is, what are the similarities and differences in the politics of social policy-making between these two countries?
- ISSN
- 1225-5017
- Language
- English
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