Mutsuko Takahashi

Risk and Public Policy in East Asia

Herausgeber: Chan, Raymond K H

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Contemporary Asian society is marked by social processes associated with the loss of stable economic growth and high employment; family structures capable of caring for family members in need; and governmental economic and political competence. Against this backdrop, this volume offers a timely review of these critical issues, offering an introduction of the concepts and theoretical approaches of risk and risk and governance that places them within the context of Asian societies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 531g
• ISBN-13: 9780754678953
• ISBN-10: 0754678954
• Artikelnr.: 45367150

Autorenporträt

Raymond K.H. Chan, Associate Professor, Department of Applied Social Studies, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong; Mutsuko Takahashi, Professor, Graduate School of International Cooperation and Development, Kibi International University, Japan and Lillian Lih-rong Wang, Professor, Department of Social Work & Director, Social Policy Research Center, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction: Risk and Public Policy in East Asia, Raymond K.H.
Chan, Mutsuko Takahashi, Lillian Lih-rong Wang; Part I Risk and Risk
Regulation: Concepts and Practices; Chapter 2 The Relevance of Social
Science Approaches to Risk for Social Policy Research, Jens O. Zinn;
Chapter 3 1 The author would like to thank Julia Howe and Attila Szanto for
their excellent research assistance in preparing for this chapter., Bridget
M. Hutter; Part II Risk and Family Changes; Chapter 4 Risks, Family, and
Gender Justice in Contemporary Japan, Mutsuko Takahashi; Chapter 5 1 The
research was the part of 'Gender Equality and Multicultural Conviviality in
the Age of Globalization' (Global COE Project, Head investigator: Mari
Osawa) and 'A Comparative Study of Care Regime and Social Integration in
East Asia', supported by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B:
No.21310168) from the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS).
I thank Song Dayoung for her help, and helpful comments and suggestions
from the editors, Mari Osawa, Heidi Gottfried, Karin Gottschall, Sawako
Shirahase, Karen Shire, Kim Young, Kim Sujeong, Hwang Jungmee and Baek
Sunhee on earlier versions of this chapter., Naoko Soma; Chapter 6 New
Social Risks and Family Change in Taiwan, Tsung-hsi Fu, Rhidian Hughes;
Chapter 7 Managing Family Risks in Hong Kong: How and Why, Raymond K.H.
Chan; Chapter 8 Managing Family-Related Risks in East Asia, Lillian
Lih-rong Wang; Part III Risk, Work and Socio-Economic Security; Chapter 9
Unemployment and the Government's Role in a Risk Society: A Case Study in
Taiwan, Fen-ling Chen; Chapter 10 Managing Risks During a Financial Crisis:
Promises and Fallacies of the Productive Welfare Model in Hong Kong,
Raymond M.H. Ngan; Chapter 11 Managing or Generating New Social Risks?
Labour Market Changes and the Japanese Welfare Regime, Junko Yamashita;
Chapter 12 Comments on Socio-economic Security in Four East Asian
Societies, Dukjin Chang; Part IV Risk and its Governance; Chapter 13 Risk
Governance in a Double Risk Society: From System Failure to Unknown
Complexities, Jaeyeol Yee; Chapter 14 1This research was supported by two
grants from the National Science Council, Taiwan (project number: NSC
95-2625-Z-194-001, and NSC 96-2923-I-194-001-MY2). I would like to thank
Raymond K.H. Chan and Jen-Der Peter Lue for their constructive comments, to
Jun-Rong Chen for his positive feedback at the early stage of this
research; and to Chia-Yu Yang for his excellent work of data computing.,
Hsiu-Jen Jennifer Yeh; Chapter 15 Risk and the Emergence of New Subpolitics
in Japan, Ki-young Shin; Chapter 16 1This chapter is a part of a research
project supported by the grant from the National Research Foundation of
Korea (project number: KRF 2007-411-J01602)., Jen-der Lue;