Welfare and Inequality in Marketizing East Asia - Hardcover

by Jonathan D. London (Author)

Develops a spirited defence of welfare regimes analysis through a constructive critique of recent comparative scholarship and an empirical analysis of the politics of wellbeing in Vietnam
Extends the analysis of welfare regimes from Northeast Asia, where the politics of social policy has advanced in recent years, to Southeast Asia
Theorizes the development of welfare institutions in Vietnam from a political economy perspective.

Author Biography

Jonathan D. London is Senior University Lecturer of Global Political Economy - Asia at Leiden University in The Netherlands. His recent publications include Politics in Contemporary Vietnam (Palgrave) and journal articles in The Journal of Contemporary Asia, Social Science and Medicine, and The Annual Review of Political Science. He holds a PhD in sociology from the University of Wisconsin.