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The world-scale expansion of markets and market relations ranks among the most transformative developments of our times. We can refer to this process by way of a generic if inelegant term – marketization. This book explores how processes of marketization have registered across East Asia’s diverse social landscape and its implications for patterns of welfare and inequality. While there has been great interest in East Asia’s economic rise, treatments of welfare and inequality in the region have been largely relegated to specialist literatures. Proceeding from a synthetic critique of political economy, this book places welfare and inequality at the center of a more encompassing comparative approach to political economy that construes countries as dynamic, globally embedded social orders defined and animated by distinctive social relational and institutional features.

Public welfare --- Welfare state --- Benevolent institutions --- Poor relief --- Public assistance --- Public charities --- Public relief --- Public welfare reform --- Relief (Aid) --- Social welfare --- Welfare (Public assistance) --- Welfare reform --- Human services --- Social service --- State, Welfare --- Economic policy --- Social policy --- State, The --- Welfare economics --- Government policy --- East Asia --- Asia, East --- Asia, Eastern --- East (Far East) --- Eastern Asia --- Far East --- Orient --- Social policy. --- Political economy. --- Public policy. --- International Political Economy. --- Public Policy. --- Economic theory --- Political economy --- Social sciences --- Economic man

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This book examines the complex relationship between corruption and entrepreneurship in countries of varying levels of economic development. The authors explore the ways in which social welfare policies have changed in current economic and political environments as well as key challenges faced by the welfare policies. In addition, this book addresses three key questions with regard to the impact of corruption on institutions and social welfare: • Is corruption an additional burden in extensive regulatory environment on different types of entrepreneurship---necessity entrepreneurship, opportunity entrepreneurship, total entrepreneurial activity, self-employment, and newly registered firms? • Is corruption helpful for entrepreneurs who have aspiration to operate outside their home country border in highly regulated environment? • How does corruption affect income distribution generated through entrepreneurial activity? Entrepreneurship is an important factor for local and national economies as it generates employment and income that are crucial for economic development. Corruption can significantly influence the nature of decisions made by entrepreneurs, with profound effects on business creation, institutional development, and economic performance. For example, an entrepreneur with resources and networks might be able to influence the regulatory agencies to overlook violations, expedite permits, or bribe corrupt program administrators to violate the rules of distribution, exacerbating income inequality and obstructing economic growth and development. While corruption is not a new phenomenon, the current globalized economy has introduced trade into the corruption question as globalization puts pressure on countries to open borders to attract investments and gain a competitive advantage. However, many country level institutions do not always change as fast as the economic activity across borders, which can encourage corruption in order to bypass inefficient regulations and to successfully engage in entrepreneurship. The authors of the book examine this phenomenon. Featuring policy implications and case studies, this book will appeal to graduate students, academics, professionals, practitioners, and researchers in entrepreneurship, international business and public policy.

Business. --- Entrepreneurship. --- Globalization. --- Markets. --- Development economics. --- Business and Management. --- Political Economy/Economic Policy. --- Development Economics. --- Emerging Markets/Globalization. --- Public markets --- Global cities --- Globalisation --- Internationalization --- Entrepreneur --- Intrapreneur --- Trade --- Corruption. --- Public welfare. --- Capitalism --- Business incubators --- Benevolent institutions --- Poor relief --- Public assistance --- Public charities --- Public relief --- Public welfare --- Public welfare reform --- Relief (Aid) --- Social welfare --- Welfare (Public assistance) --- Welfare reform --- Human services --- Social service --- Corrupt practices --- Ethics --- Government policy --- Economic policy. --- Economic Policy. --- Economics --- Economic development --- International relations --- Anti-globalization movement --- Economic nationalism --- Economic planning --- National planning --- State planning --- Planning --- National security --- Social policy --- Commerce --- Fairs --- Market towns

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Since its emergence at the end of the seventeenth century, industrial capitalism as a specific form of social organisation has set recurrent challenges to its own persistence, and until today, it has proved to be successful to develop new ways of accumulation based on its capacity of adaptation. Is this process of transition now accelerating or reaching an end point? This book is a critical exploration of capitalism in transition, bringing together cutting edge, world renowned scholars who reflect from different disciplinary points of view. This collection engages with the primarily Western themes of welfare capitalism and social fragmentation. Structured over three parts, the book analyses; the transformations of welfare societies and capitalism with a focus on South European welfare states and their (in)capacity to tackle poverty; the transformation of work and migration with a special attention to informality and the question of social rights; and the transformation of cities.This book is relevant to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 1, No poverty.

Capitalism --- Vergleichende Kapitalismusforschung --- Wirtschaftsordnung --- Westliche Staaten --- Kapitalismus --- Capitalism. --- Market economy --- Economics --- Profit --- Capital --- Westliche Welt --- E-books --- Public welfare --- Benevolent institutions --- Poor relief --- Public assistance --- Public charities --- Public relief --- Public welfare reform --- Relief (Aid) --- Social welfare --- Welfare (Public assistance) --- Welfare reform --- Human services --- Social service --- Social aspects --- Government policy --- Kapitalistische Gesellschaft --- Kapitalistische Wirtschaft --- Kapitalistisches Gesellschaftssystem --- Kapitalistisches Wirtschaftssystem --- Gesellschaftsordnung --- Antikapitalismus --- Westen --- Der Westen --- Kapitalistische Staaten --- Industriestaaten --- Westmächte --- Nichtwestliche Welt --- Enzo Mingione. --- Fordist crisis. --- No poverty. --- Western capitalism. --- citizenship systems. --- financial capital. --- global capitalism. --- migratory flows. --- neoliberal transformation. --- new employment regimes. --- postwar capitalism. --- poverty. --- welfare policies.

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This text challenges the conventional wisdom on American exceptionalism, offering a comparative analysis of the politics of child and in-work tax credits. This comparative approach, analyzing the US, Canada, and the UK, upends everything we thought we knew about the politics of tax credits, accounting for both the timing of their development and the distribution of their benefits among families across liberal welfare regimes.

Public welfare. --- Economic assistance, Domestic. --- Poor families --- Child tax credits. --- Family allowances. --- Fiscal policy. --- Government policy. --- Tax policy --- Taxation --- Economic policy --- Finance, Public --- Allowances, Family --- Child benefit --- Child endowment --- Family endowment --- Family wages --- Cost and standard of living --- Economic security --- Mothers' pensions --- Wages --- Income maintenance programs --- Tax credits --- Families --- Anti-poverty programs --- Government economic assistance --- National service --- Grants-in-aid --- Benevolent institutions --- Poor relief --- Public assistance --- Public charities --- Public relief --- Public welfare --- Public welfare reform --- Relief (Aid) --- Social welfare --- Welfare (Public assistance) --- Welfare reform --- Human services --- Social service --- Government policy

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This volume analyzes welfare policies by looking at the making of their target publics. It examines how these populations are identified and constructed by policy making. The contributors apply the classic theoretical question about who gets what, when, and how, but also suggest the revisiting of policy-feedback analysis. Coverage includes empirical case studies in different geographical areas. It looks at Europe, the United States and also considers Mayotte, set in a post-colonial context. The chapters also examine different aspects of welfare, including the bureaucratic treatment of marginalized populations as well as the middle class. The authors draw on diverse conceptual approaches and investigative methodologies. They conduct participant observation in public or nonprofit organizations, explore administrative records, and interview actors at various stages of policymaking. This qualitative material is then combined with relevant quantitative data. Readers are guided through a multilevel approach of welfare policies, from their definition to their implementation. They gain insight into the targeting of publics, from the higher reaches of government to the most underprivileged groups of the social world. Overall, the book compares different national contexts and social policy fields. This approach unearths regularities, enabling the authors to reassess major contemporary transformations of the welfare State.

Philosophy. --- Public policy. --- Logic. --- Social sciences --- Statistics. --- Social policy. --- Social Philosophy. --- Statistics for Social Science, Behavorial Science, Education, Public Policy, and Law. --- Social Policy. --- Public Policy. --- National planning --- State planning --- Economic policy --- Family policy --- Social history --- Statistical analysis --- Statistical data --- Statistical methods --- Statistical science --- Mathematics --- Econometrics --- Social philosophy --- Social theory --- Argumentation --- Deduction (Logic) --- Deductive logic --- Dialectic (Logic) --- Logic, Deductive --- Intellect --- Philosophy --- Psychology --- Science --- Reasoning --- Thought and thinking --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities --- Methodology --- Public welfare. --- Public welfare administration. --- Public administration. --- Administration, Public --- Delivery of government services --- Government services, Delivery of --- Public management --- Public sector management --- Political science --- Administrative law --- Decentralization in government --- Local government --- Public officers --- Public welfare --- Benevolent institutions --- Poor relief --- Public assistance --- Public charities --- Public relief --- Public welfare reform --- Relief (Aid) --- Social welfare --- Welfare (Public assistance) --- Welfare reform --- Human services --- Social service --- Administration --- Government policy --- Social sciences-Philosophy. --- Statistics for Social Sciences, Humanities, Law. --- Social sciences—Philosophy. --- Statistics . --- Political planning. --- Statistics in Social Sciences, Humanities, Law, Education, Behavorial Sciences, Public Policy. --- Planning in politics --- Public policy --- Planning --- Policy sciences --- Politics, Practical --- Public administration --- Statistical methods.