| Housing and the New Welfare State: Perspectives from East Asia and Europe Contributor(s): Groves, Richard (Author), Murie, Alan (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0754644405 ISBN-13: 9780754644408 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $188.10 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2007 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History - Social Science | Human Services - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: 363.556 |
| LCCN: 2006031597 |
| Series: Social Policy in Modern Asia |
| Physical Information: 224 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The changing nature and significance of housing provision within welfare states is considered in this timely book. With housing playing an increasingly important role in welfare provision, the new welfare state emerging in different parts of the world is being developed in the context of individual asset accumulation and the private ownership of housing. Housing and the New Welfare State shows that housing is becoming critical to asset-based welfare not only in Western Europe but also in the six East Asian housing systems that are a major focus of the book. Chapters by leading East Asian scholars provide analysis of housing policies in Singapore, Hong Kong, Korea, Japan, China and Taiwan. Also examined are the 'four worlds' of welfare and housing; the causes and consequences of the shift from tenants to home owners in the old welfare states of Britain and other parts of Western Europe; and the growth of the property-owning welfare state as a theme running through contemporary policy in both East Asia and Europe. |
