Social Security Policy in Hong Kong
From British Colony to China's Special Administrative Region- Authors:
- Publisher:
- 2011
Summary
For more than four decades, free market economists and right-wing politicians have touted Hong Kong as a model of capitalism and a market economy success story. Social Security Policy in Hong Kong: From British Colony to Special Administrative Region of China, by Chak Kwan Chan, argues that Hong Kong's capitalism is not the result of democratic choice but the consequence of an administrative-led polity that has had suppressed democracy, limited trade unions' activities, and manipulated traditional Chinese welfare ideologies to maintain a small government. Social Security Policy in Hong Kong is the first book that systematically analyzes the dynamic relationships between Hong Kong's polity, Chinese welfare ideologies, and social security provisions from British colonial rule to China's special administrative region.
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Bibliographic data
- Copyright year
- 2011
- ISBN-Print
- 978-0-7391-4954-6
- ISBN-Online
- 978-0-7391-4956-0
- Publisher
- Lexington, Lanham
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 216
- Product type
- Book Titles
Table of contents
- Contents No access
- List of Tables No access
- Abbreviations No access
- Preface No access
- 1 Hong Kong Social Policy & Chinese Welfare Ideologies No access Pages 1 - 10
- 2 Co-optive Politics & Welfare Constraints No access Pages 11 - 24
- 3 Legitimacy & Chinese Welfare Ideologies No access Pages 25 - 36
- 4 Traditional Chinese Welfare Ideologies No access Pages 37 - 60
- 5 Social Security & Chinese Welfare Ideologies Before 1945 No access Pages 61 - 82
- 6 Social Security & Chinese Welfare Ideologies: 1945-1967 No access Pages 83 - 110
- 7 Social Security & Chinese Welfare Ideologies: 1968-1997 No access Pages 111 - 136
- 8 Postcolonial Polity & Welfare Approach No access Pages 137 - 152
- 9 Postcolonial Social Security & Chinese Welfare Ideologies No access Pages 153 - 170
- 10 Chinese Welfare Ideologies & Hong Kong’s Capitalism No access Pages 171 - 182
- Bibliography No access Pages 183 - 208
- Index No access Pages 209 - 216





