Two Possible Welfare State Futures: Left Corporatist Sweden and "Welfare Pluralism" Theory

1989 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 247
Author(s):  
Alexander Hicks ◽  
Robert Erikson ◽  
Rune Aberg ◽  
Brian Abel-Smith ◽  
Kay Titmuss ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Welfare Pluralism

Dismantling the Chinese mini-welfare state? Marketization and the politics of institutional transformation, 1979–1999

2001 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward X. Gu
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Market Transition ◽  
Welfare System ◽  
Urban China ◽  
Institutional Transformation ◽  
Chinese Government ◽  
Welfare Spending ◽  
Social Welfare System ◽  
Reform Period ◽  
Welfare Pluralism

This article presents a systematic examination of the workplace-based welfare system in urban China. During the pre-reform period from 1949 to 1978, most welfare provisions in China were delivered and the majority of welfare spending was spent by workplace units. Since China's market transition started in the late 1970s, this workplace-based welfare system is no longer financially sustainable, and more importantly its functioning constitutes an impediment to the formation of an institutional configuration for a market economy in China. The Chinese government has therefore experienced increasing pressure to reshape this workplacebased welfare system into a genuine welfare state, so as to shift the responsibilities of welfare provisions from individual work units to government bodies. Some institutional arrangements characteristic of welfare pluralism, which emphasize that the state, employers, and individuals share welfare responsibilities, are also incorporated into the newly emergent social welfare system in urban China.

"Rats, Man, and the Welfare State": Comment.

1959 ◽  
Vol 14 (9) ◽  
pp. 594-594
Author(s):  
James C. Crumbaugh
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
The Welfare State
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