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The rules of the game
— the politics of national pensions in Korea | | Author(s) | Gyu-Jin Hwang |
| Journal title | Social Policy & Administration, vol 41, no 2, April 2007 |
| Pages | pp 132-147 |
| Keywords | Pensions ; Social welfare ; Social policy ; Korea. |
| Annotation | The conditions in which policy changes occur over time are explored. The institutional pathways taken by national pensions in Korea over an extended period are studied, identifying the key moments which have pushed through their development initiation (1973), implementation (1988) and reform (1998). Public pensions have developed over time in an incremental fashion, bringing an ever-growing proportion of the population under their umbrella. What factors account for this development? First, a combination of a rapid increase in the older population with the traditional extended family increasingly becoming a nuclear one, means that what used to be simply a family issue of protecting older people has become a social matter. Second, urbanisation and industrialisation have resulted in an ever-growing number of life-time contingencies such as unexpected income losses. Convincing as these socio-economic accounts may seem, however they offer only a snapshot, underscoring the politics of national pensions which stretch over long periods. This article seeks to answer how and in whose interest national pensions come on to the political agenda, how they are framed and defined, and how political actors respond to pensions for national pension reform. In each of the three stages, it is suggested, somewhat different institutional rules have operated. Defining institutional rules in the 'process of who gets represented in the decision-making process', this article identifies the different institutional rules which have played a pivotal role in the social policy-making processes. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-070508220 A |
| Classmark | JJ: TY: TM2: 7DK |
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