Eleven: The welfare modelling business in the East Asian welfare state debate
This chapter discusses the influence of Esping-Andersen’s work in comparative analyses of the welfare state in East Asia. On the one hand, it has led to an enormous increase of social scientific interest beyond the once dominant intellectual terrain of economic development. On the other hand, while we now know much more about the East Asian welfare systems and their uniqueness and similarities than before, there has been lack of progress towards a more nuanced theory-building process. Limited in ambition, perhaps, little is available about East Asian welfare development that can parallel some of the path-breaking contributions concerning the development of welfare states in the West. As such, the focus on typologising that has been prompted by The three worlds of welfare capitalism might have produced a blind alley at the expense of the bigger and arguably more important question of why welfare regimes develop.
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