Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy最新文献

{"title":"ICS volume 36 issue 1 Cover and Back matter","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/ics.2020.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/ics.2020.13","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38249,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy","volume":" ","pages":"b1 - b4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/ics.2020.13","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46156632","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The puzzle of Japans welfare capitalism: a review of the welfare regimes approach","authors":"M. Powell, Ki-tae Kim, Sungwon Kim","doi":"10.1080/21699763.2019.1641135","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21699763.2019.1641135","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT There has been little consensus on Japans welfare regime since Esping-Andersens [1990. The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism. Cambridge: Polity Press] unclear categorisation of Japan as his only non-Western welfare state. This article is the first attempt to analyse academic research published in both English and Japanese. It presents a review of 40 collected studies (including 15 Western, 6 Asian and 19 Japanese articles), reached a wide variety of conclusions, defining Japan as eight different types: We point out that while the majority of Western studies tend to run statistical models including Japan among otherwise Western welfare states with little theoretical justification, Japanese scholars tend to focus on Japan as a single case. The two very different approaches may have something to learn from each other, as in thesis antithesis synthesis. Now that we are aware of very different approaches to and conclusions about Japans welfare regime, the topic appears ripe for greater co-operation between scholars.","PeriodicalId":38249,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy","volume":"36 1","pages":"92 - 110"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/21699763.2019.1641135","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42988760","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"NPS volume 36 issue 1 Cover and Front matter","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/ics.2020.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/ics.2020.12","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38249,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy","volume":" ","pages":"f1 - f2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/ics.2020.12","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49543550","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"ICS volume 35 issue 3 Cover and Front matter","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/s2169976300001406","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s2169976300001406","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38249,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy","volume":" ","pages":"f1 - f1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/s2169976300001406","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48818757","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Parental evidence of impact of policy on worst forms of child labour in rural and urban Ghana","authors":"Obed Adonteng-Kissi","doi":"10.1080/21699763.2018.1535996","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21699763.2018.1535996","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper aimed to ascertain parental evidence of impact of policy on worst forms of child labour (WFCL) in rural and urban Ghana amongst 460 participants: I utilised 400 survey participants whose children were/were not involved in child labour and analysed using descriptive and inferential statistical techniques and applying the Stata Version 13 software. I also utilised 60 government officials; NGO representatives; and both parents whose children were/were not involved in child labour. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with parents (10), stakeholders (10), focus groups (30); and participant observation techniques (10) were utilised to gather the needed data and purposively sampled across rural areas (Ankaase, Anwiankwanta and Kensere), and urban areas (Jamestown, Korle Gonno and Chorkor) in Ghana. Interviews were recorded, transcribed utilising a framework approach as the main qualitative data analysis method. Parental evidence suggests that new laws, legislative reforms, programmes and activities have helped to reduce WFCL in Ghana.","PeriodicalId":38249,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy","volume":"35 1","pages":"239 - 260"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/21699763.2018.1535996","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41329091","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Popular support for the social security system in urban China: evidence from a cross-sectional survey in a Chinese city","authors":"Qin Li, A. He","doi":"10.1080/21699763.2018.1544090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21699763.2018.1544090","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Because the legitimacy of the welfare system ultimately depends on citizens’ support, it is vital to understand public welfare attitudes. By analysing primary data collected in Zhuhai City, this study examines Chinese people’s attitudes toward contributory social security programmes. The study’s bi-dimensional conception of welfare attitudes synthesises the dual roles that people play in social security and examines their respective attitudes. Self-interest and ideology models were both tested in the Chinese context. As ordinary citizens, people’s expectation for governmental responsibility in social security appears to be high. As contributors to the system, their willingness to pay premiums is also on the high side. Based on multivariate analysis, this study provides contextual explanations for the attitudinal patterns observed in Zhuhai and interprets the results in reference to the international literature. The article concludes with policy implications for China’s social security reforms.","PeriodicalId":38249,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy","volume":"35 1","pages":"261 - 279"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/21699763.2018.1544090","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41914153","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"ICS volume 35 issue 2 Cover and Front matter","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/s216997630000139x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s216997630000139x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38249,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy","volume":"35 1","pages":"f1 - f1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/s216997630000139x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41455124","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Declines and divisions: the missing welfare needs of the majority","authors":"Remo Siza","doi":"10.1080/21699763.2018.1559755","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21699763.2018.1559755","url":null,"abstract":"Our understanding of western societies is heavily influenced by research on the unequal distribution of wealth and income. Stiglitz (2015), Atkinson (2015), and Piketty (2014) note the dramatic increase in income disparity between ‘the richest 1% and the rest’ and the growing concentration of wealth and income in the upper classes. Stiglitz (2016, p. 169) and Hacker and Pierson (2010) note that the rise in the wealth and income of the 1% directly correlates to the growing financial difficulties of the middle classes and inequality of opportunity and outcome. It is only in the last decades that social inequalities have become central to any understanding of the middle class and of social stratification (Payne, 2013). In the 1990s, when inequality began to rise in many OECD countries, research focused on the increase of poverty or on the consequences of deregulation, rather than on the decline of the middle classes and how to tackle this (OECD, 2011; Kenworthy, 2007; Dallinger, 2013; Giesecke & Groß, 2003). In my paper, I argue that a large part of the research focused on the relation between extreme inequality and the decline of the middle class does not capture the extent of the changes in its living conditions, the level of hardship and the impact on civil coexistence and the functioning of economic and political institutions. Many OECD countries are still ‘middle-class nations’, moreover, the middle class is no longer a locus of social and systemic integration, but instead includes both people who occupy social positions that provide them with material and cultural advantages and people whose income is low and status precarious. The latter group constitutes the vast majority. In many OECD countries, there has been a growth of an extended social stratum formed by the majority of individuals, which is separated not only from the ‘super rich’, but also from the established middle class and the most disadvantaged households. I believe that the condition of this stratum constitutes a significant and critical ‘juncture’ for any welfare strategy aimed at combatting social and economic processes that are increasing the vulnerability of many households and further degrading social life. Furthermore, the relevance of these changes for the organisation of welfare services is not adequately emphasised. Social policy responses to middle class decline have been weak. They appear less and less capable of protecting the middle class from the growing risk of instability, and do little to foster social mobility or improve its social and economic condition.","PeriodicalId":38249,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy","volume":"35 1","pages":"211 - 226"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/21699763.2018.1559755","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48896515","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Defamilisation and familisation risks, adult worker models, and pro-employment/decommodification measures for women: the case of Hong Kong","authors":"S. Yu, C. Chau, Stefan Kühner","doi":"10.1080/21699763.2018.1526699","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21699763.2018.1526699","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper is concerned with the research areas of defamilisation/familisation and adult worker models. It particularly focuses on demonstrating how the study of government pro-employment and decommodification measures for reducing defamilisation and familisation risks faced by women contributes to the examination of the adult worker models. It presents three analytical tasks. The first is to categorise the adult worker models into four types (market-focused, supported, choice-focused and collective consumption) based on different combinations of the pro-employment and decommodification measures. The second is to explore the relative desirability of these four types in enhancing women’s well-being. Based on the case example of Hong Kong, the third is to examine issues concerning the application of the adult worker models in the analysis of how the government responds to defamilisation and familisation risks.","PeriodicalId":38249,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy","volume":"35 1","pages":"194 - 210"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/21699763.2018.1526699","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48275601","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"International public opinion surveys and public policy in Southern European democracies","authors":"J. Fernández-Prados, Cristina Cuenca-Piqueras, M. González-Moreno","doi":"10.1080/21699763.2018.1535997","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21699763.2018.1535997","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article aims to analyse the presence of and relationship between the most relevant comparative social research thorough international surveys and public policies reflected in the different official bulletins or gazettes of the countries of southern Europe, specifically Spain, Portugal and Italy. Following a consideration of the process of globalisation of research through surveys, four surveys were selected (Eurobarometer, World Values Survey, International Social Survey Programme, European Social Survey). The complex relationships between public opinion and public policy were also addressed. Finally, it is concluded that the most prominent international surveys have little or no presence in public policies in the countries analysed.","PeriodicalId":38249,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy","volume":"35 1","pages":"227 - 237"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/21699763.2018.1535997","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49121761","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}