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.
Autorentext
Chak Kwan Chan is reader in social policy at Nottingham Trent University.
Inhalt
Chapter 1 List of Tables
Chapter 2 Abbreviations
Chapter 3 Preface
Chapter 4 Chapter One: Hong Kong Social Policy and Chinese Welfare Ideologies
Chapter 5 Chapter Two: Co-Optive Politics and Welfare Constraints
Chapter 6 Chapter Three: Legitimacy and Chinese Welfare Ideologies
Chapter 7 Chapter Four: Traditional Chinese Welfare Ideologies
Chapter 8 Chapter Five: Social Security and Chinese Welfare Ideologies Before 1945
Chapter 9 Chapter Six: Social Security and Chinese Welfare Ideologies: 1945-1967
Chapter 10 Chapter Seven: Social Security and Chinese Welfare Ideologies: 1968-1997
Chapter 11 Chapter Eight: Postcolonial Polity and Welfare Approach
Chapter 12 Chapter Nine: Postcolonial Social Security and Chinese Welfare Ideologies
Chapter 13 Chapter Ten: Chinese Welfare Ideologies and Hong Kong's Capitalism
Chapter 14 Bibliography
Chapter 15 Index