2 Social Transformations and the Development of Welfare Pluralism in Reform China : An Assessment of China's Welfare Regime
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China has experienced unprecedented social change since economic reform began in the 1980s. This change has also seen the restructuring of China's social welfare and social security system, which was rooted in the Soviet model. This paper begins with a description of China's social transformation, its resulting social problems, and its impact on social policy. It then examines the development of welfare pluralism in the context of a market economy. This paper argues that contemporary social welfare and social policy reform in China can be considered the outcome of the combination of pragmatic economic approaches and frozen political institutions dominated by the party-state. Furthermore, compared to other Asian countries, China's welfare regime should neither be oversimplified as a developmental welfare model or economic development-centered welfare model, nor simply summarized as an Asian Confucian welfare model. The formation and transformation of the Chinese social welfare system is closely related to its traditional culture, unique political institutions, evolving approaches to economic development and changing social fabric. The paper concludes that there is still room for discussion on China's welfare regime through empirical exploration and theoretical elaboration in future.
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- 2006-09-30