Comparative Welfare Capitalism in East Asia, 1st ed. 2016 Productivist Models of Social Policy

The author aims to develop conceptual refining and theoretical reframing of the productivist welfare capitalism thesis in order to address a set of questions concerning whether and how productivist welfarism has experienced both continuity and change in East Asia.

Mason M. S. Kim is Assistant Professor, Spelman College, USA. He received his PhD in comparative politics from the University of Pittsburgh. His research interests include the impact of electoral rules and party systems on welfare state development in developing democracies.