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Politics of defamilialization: a comparison of Italy, Japan, Korea and Spain
- Authors:
- ESTEVEZ-ABE Margarita, NALDINI Manuela
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of European Social Policy, 26(4), 2016, pp.327-343.
- Publisher:
- Sage
This article investigates the politics of ‘defamilialization of care’ in four familialist countries – Italy, Japan, Korea and Spain – during the past 15 years. By ‘defamilialization of care’, the authors refer to those public policies, which aim at reducing the care responsibility of the family – both for the young and the old. They build upon the existing literature on new social risks by highlighting the role of those macro-political institutions such as electoral systems and government types in order to demonstrate that there are two very different types of politics of defamilialization: (1) election-oriented and (2) problem-oriented. The authors attribute different policy outcomes in the four familialist countries to their specific institutional configurations rather than to partisan government composition or different cultural orientations. (Edited publisher abstract)
Care regimes and responses: East Asian experiences compared
- Authors:
- CHAN Raymond K. H., SOMA Naoko, YAMASHITA Junko
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Comparative Social Welfare, 27(2), June 2011, pp.175-186.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This concluding paper provides a review of the papers in this journal special issue which focuses on the changing care regimes for children and older people in the East Asian societies of China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan and Hong Kong. It argues that the 5 Asian societies exhibit similar demographic trends and political forces, which have presented similar challenges to their care systems. Various care regimes and arrangements have been initiated to tackle these recent challenges. The family retains its significant role in all these societies, with the care burden increasingly being shared by other sectors, especially the state. While the state primarily provides funding, community and market sectors are playing a more significant role in the provision of services. The details of the reconstituted care regimes and the redistribution of roles and burdens will remain different in each of these societies, reflecting their institutional legacy, their ideological commitment to state or market, and their range of alternatives to state provision.
Comparative framework for care regime analysis in East Asia
- Authors:
- SOMA Naoko, YAMASHITA Junko, CHAN Raymond K. H.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Comparative Social Welfare, 27(2), June 2011, pp.111-121.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This paper provides an introduction to this journal special issue which focuses on the changing care regimes for children and older people in the East Asian societies of China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan and Hong Kong. As a result of dramatic changes in family structures and behaviours in each society, determining the best methods of providing social care services to older people and children has recently become a focus of attention. Each paper in this special issue focuses on one of the societies, addressing the impact of demographic trends on the care regimes. A concluding paper then highlights the similarities and differences among these societies. The purpose of this introductory chapter is to map the demographic shifts and the changing profile of the family in each society, and to present a framework for the analysis of the provision and financing of both elder and child care.
Annual report on health and welfare
- Author:
- JAPAN. Ministry of Health and Welfare
- Publisher:
- Japan. Ministry of Health and Welfare
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 413p.,tables.
- Place of publication:
- Tokyo
The young, the old and the state: social care systems in five industrial nations
- Editor:
- ANTTONEN Anneli
- Publisher:
- Edward Elgar
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 206p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Cheltenham
This work is a comparative account of social care services for children and older people in five key industrial nations (Finland, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States). The authors move beyond institutional description and seeking to understand the normative and moral qualities of welfare systems. The book builds on existing theories of welfare state regimes by extending the analysis to the arena of social care. A full account is provided of the historical, economic and political origins of childcare and care for older people in each of the five countries. These analyses are then used as the basis for a theoretical account of the developmental trajectories of social care systems. The book proposes that there are common pressures at work in all industrial nations driving their welfare systems to similar forms of organisation and structure. However, these trends are mediated by important differences in culture and history.