Joseph Wong
Biographic Data
| ID | 3732876 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joseph Wong |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joseph |
| FAMILY NAME | Wong |
| SIGNATURE | WONG J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 305 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
From Development to Democracy
Why some of Asia’s authoritarian regimes have democratized as they have grown richer—and why others haven’t Over the past century, Asia has been transformed by rapid economic growth, industrialization, and urbanization—a spectacular record of development that has turned one of the world’s poorest regions into one of its richest. Yet Asia’s record of democratization has been much more uneven, despite the global correlation between development and …
Combating Covid-19 in Democratic Taiwan and South Korea
South Korea and Taiwan effectively suppressed the coronavirus without the authoritarian measures imposed in China or the lockdowns used elsewhere. They responded quickly, communicated clearly and consistently about the threat. Both governments had prior experiences with contagions to prepare for an epidemic. And both states had introduced universal health care during their periods of democratization, shaping a consensus among citizens about equit…
Chinese Musical Culture in the Global Context – Modernization and Internationalization of Traditional Chinese Music in Twenty-First Century
Authoritarian-Led Democratization
Authoritarian regimes become more likely to democratize when they face little choice or little risk. In some cases, the risk of democratization to authoritarian incumbents is so low that ending authoritarianism might not mean exiting power at all. This article develops a unified theory of authoritarian-led democratization under conditions of relatively low incumbent risk. We argue that the party strength of the authoritarian incumbent is the most…
Una economía política para personas de difícil acceso
The United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals are unequivocally clear in their ambition: to end poverty in all its forms everywhere. However, while goals of this kind (e.g., the Millennium Development Goals) may be successful in general, they have not been successful in particular. This paper addresses one of the problems behind this situation: the difficult access to people who are most in need of programs and support
Criteria to assess potential reverse innovations
BACKGROUND: Low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are developing novel approaches to healthcare that may be relevant to high-income countries (HICs). These include products, services, organizational processes, or policies that improve access, cost, or efficiency of healthcare. However, given the challenge of replication, it is difficult to identify innovations that could be successfully adapted to high-income settings. We present a set of crit…
The Strength to Concede
Authoritarian ruling parties are expected to be exceptionally resistant to democratization. Yet some of the strongest authoritarian parties in the world have not resisted democratization, but have embraced it. This is because their raison d'etre is to continue ruling, not necessarily to remain authoritarian. Democratization requires that ruling parties hold free and fair elections, but not that they lose them. Authoritarian ruling parties can thu…
HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders before and during the era of combination antiretroviral therapy
Combination antiretroviral therapy (CART) has greatly reduced medical morbidity and mortality with HIV infection, but high rates of HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders (HAND) continue to be reported. Because large HIV-infected (HIV+) and uninfected (HIV-) groups have not been studied with similar methods in the pre-CART and CART eras, it is unclear whether CART has changed the prevalence, nature, and clinical correlates of HAND. We used compa…
Wealth, Health and Democracy in East Asia and Latin America - By James W. McGuire
Run of the Red Queen
Run of the Red Queen: Government, Innovation, Globalization and Economic Growth in China . New Haven, CT : Yale University Press . xviii + 278 pages. ISBN 9780300152715 , $35.00 cloth . Breznitz, Dan and Murphree, Michael . 2011 . The publication of Run of the Red Queen: Government, Innovation, Globalization and Economic Growth in China could not have come at a better time. Ever since China surpassed Japan as the world's second largest economy, t…
East Asia
This article integrates East Asia into the larger welfare state canon and situates the analysis in terms of common global challenges. Explaining East Asia's ‘exceptionalism’ resulted in a first wave of comparative social policy analysis of the region during the 1990s. Three complementary explanations emerged: Confucian values, the absence of leftist power resources, and the primacy of productivism. These perspectives offer insight into the unique…
Coordinating Health Biotechnology Development in Asia
This paper examines the tensions between health bio-industrial promotion, on the one hand, and public health protection, on the other, in Korea, Singapore and Taiwan. Specifically, it focuses on the state's role in health technology regulation, bio-ethical mediation, and health technology pricing. In the past, the Asian “developmental” state was very effective in coordinating both public and private sector actors for industrial development. This …
East Asian Welfare Regimes
This chapter by Ito Peng and Joseph Wong on East Asian Asian welfare regimes is very welcome, particularly as a guide for what to watch in our increasingly fluid era of financial, energy and other shocks to the developed and developing economies. The authors review the literature on East Asian welfare states and show how much of it has been concerned with highlighting essential differences between the region and a generalized model of what we see…
Political Transitions in Dominant Party Systems
Institutions and Institutional Purpose
Drawing on theories of institutional evolution, this article contends that despite the centrality of occupationally based social insurance in postwar Korea and Taiwan (and thus the impression of institutional continuity), the welfare state has in fact deepened considerably. The analysis is structured around three distinct eras of social policy reform in Korea and Taiwan: the developmental state, democratic transition, and postindustrialism. The a…
Healthy Democracies
Do the pressures of economic globalization undermine the welfare state? Contrary to the expectations of many analysts, Taiwan and South Korea have embarked on a new trajectory, toward a strengthened welfare state and universal inclusion. In Healthy Democracies, Joseph Wong offers a political explanation for health care reform in these two countries. He focuses specifically on the ways in which democratic change in Taiwan and South Korea altered t…
Technovation in Taiwan
No longer able to compete with China and Southeast Asian economies on the basis of cheap skilled labor, Taiwan has begun to explore new industrial sectors, such as biotechnology and the life sciences more generally, as key areas for development. The notion that biotech has been “targeted” by the government naturally conjures up images of the postwar developmental state and its mechanisms for industrial governance. Indeed, the resiliency of the Ea…
Adapting to democracy
Re-Making the Developmental State in Taiwan
Taiwan has embarked on a new post-industrial or post-manufacturing industrial trajectory, targeting specifically biotechnology and the bio-business sector. Technological innovation has become the key imperative in Taiwan’s continued economic transformation. This transition invites a rethinking of the East Asian developmental state model and in particular the state’s role in leading knowledge-intensive industrial development. The article first off…
Domestic and International Considerations of Taiwan's 2004 Presidential Election
Bibliographie/Bibliography
Democratization and the Left
This article examines how democratic transition has shaped leftist politics in Taiwan, South Korea, Brazil, and Chile. On one hand, the new left has positioned itself differently in the two regions, specifically in terms of when the left emerged (or reemerged) onto the political scene and how it has organized politically. On the other hand, new left forces in both regions have moderated their political tactics and ideological demands. This articl…
The Adaptive Developmental State in East Asia
In 1997, several of Asia's economies collapsed and the international community was called in to help mend the ailing region. The crisis attracted a great deal of attention among both the scholarly and policy communities. At that time, it seemed that the Asian miracle had come to an abrupt end. Places such as South Korea enjoyed a prosperous run though suffered a dubious demise. Later developers in Southeast Asia and China, having just emerged fro…
Deepening Democracy in Taiwan
Dynamic Democratization in Taiwan
(2001). Dynamic Democratization in Taiwan. Journal of Contemporary China: Vol. 10, No. 27, pp. 339-362
The Strength to Concede
Authoritarian ruling parties are expected to be exceptionally resistant to democratization. Yet some of the strongest authoritarian parties in the world have not resisted democratization, but have embraced it. This is because their raison d'etre is to continue ruling, not necessarily to remain authoritarian. Democratization requires that ruling parties hold free and fair elections, but not that they lose them. Authoritarian ruling parties can thu…
The Adaptive Developmental State in East Asia
In 1997, several of Asia's economies collapsed and the international community was called in to help mend the ailing region. The crisis attracted a great deal of attention among both the scholarly and policy communities. At that time, it seemed that the Asian miracle had come to an abrupt end. Places such as South Korea enjoyed a prosperous run though suffered a dubious demise. Later developers in Southeast Asia and China, having just emerged fro…
Institutions and Institutional Purpose
Drawing on theories of institutional evolution, this article contends that despite the centrality of occupationally based social insurance in postwar Korea and Taiwan (and thus the impression of institutional continuity), the welfare state has in fact deepened considerably. The analysis is structured around three distinct eras of social policy reform in Korea and Taiwan: the developmental state, democratic transition, and postindustrialism. The a…
Authoritarian-Led Democratization
Authoritarian regimes become more likely to democratize when they face little choice or little risk. In some cases, the risk of democratization to authoritarian incumbents is so low that ending authoritarianism might not mean exiting power at all. This article develops a unified theory of authoritarian-led democratization under conditions of relatively low incumbent risk. We argue that the party strength of the authoritarian incumbent is the most…
Healthy Democracies
Do the pressures of economic globalization undermine the welfare state? Contrary to the expectations of many analysts, Taiwan and South Korea have embarked on a new trajectory, toward a strengthened welfare state and universal inclusion. In Healthy Democracies, Joseph Wong offers a political explanation for health care reform in these two countries. He focuses specifically on the ways in which democratic change in Taiwan and South Korea altered t…
Re-Making the Developmental State in Taiwan
Taiwan has embarked on a new post-industrial or post-manufacturing industrial trajectory, targeting specifically biotechnology and the bio-business sector. Technological innovation has become the key imperative in Taiwan’s continued economic transformation. This transition invites a rethinking of the East Asian developmental state model and in particular the state’s role in leading knowledge-intensive industrial development. The article first off…
Democratization and the Left
This article examines how democratic transition has shaped leftist politics in Taiwan, South Korea, Brazil, and Chile. On one hand, the new left has positioned itself differently in the two regions, specifically in terms of when the left emerged (or reemerged) onto the political scene and how it has organized politically. On the other hand, new left forces in both regions have moderated their political tactics and ideological demands. This articl…
Technovation in Taiwan
No longer able to compete with China and Southeast Asian economies on the basis of cheap skilled labor, Taiwan has begun to explore new industrial sectors, such as biotechnology and the life sciences more generally, as key areas for development. The notion that biotech has been “targeted” by the government naturally conjures up images of the postwar developmental state and its mechanisms for industrial governance. Indeed, the resiliency of the Ea…
Dynamic Democratization in Taiwan
(2001). Dynamic Democratization in Taiwan. Journal of Contemporary China: Vol. 10, No. 27, pp. 339-362
Propaganda Posters from the Chinese Cultural Revolution
(1997). Propaganda Posters from the Chinese Cultural Revolution. The Historian: Vol. 59, No. 4, pp. 777-794
Catch-up Development, Late Democratization
Wealth and Freedom
Dynamic Democratization in Taiwan
(2001). Dynamic Democratization in Taiwan. Journal of Contemporary China: Vol. 10, No. 27, pp. 339-362
Deepening Democracy in Taiwan
Domestic and International Considerations of Taiwan's 2004 Presidential Election
Bibliographie/Bibliography
Democratization and the Left
This article examines how democratic transition has shaped leftist politics in Taiwan, South Korea, Brazil, and Chile. On one hand, the new left has positioned itself differently in the two regions, specifically in terms of when the left emerged (or reemerged) onto the political scene and how it has organized politically. On the other hand, new left forces in both regions have moderated their political tactics and ideological demands. This articl…
The Adaptive Developmental State in East Asia
In 1997, several of Asia's economies collapsed and the international community was called in to help mend the ailing region. The crisis attracted a great deal of attention among both the scholarly and policy communities. At that time, it seemed that the Asian miracle had come to an abrupt end. Places such as South Korea enjoyed a prosperous run though suffered a dubious demise. Later developers in Southeast Asia and China, having just emerged fro…
Adapting to democracy
Re-Making the Developmental State in Taiwan
Taiwan has embarked on a new post-industrial or post-manufacturing industrial trajectory, targeting specifically biotechnology and the bio-business sector. Technological innovation has become the key imperative in Taiwan’s continued economic transformation. This transition invites a rethinking of the East Asian developmental state model and in particular the state’s role in leading knowledge-intensive industrial development. The article first off…
Healthy Democracies
Do the pressures of economic globalization undermine the welfare state? Contrary to the expectations of many analysts, Taiwan and South Korea have embarked on a new trajectory, toward a strengthened welfare state and universal inclusion. In Healthy Democracies, Joseph Wong offers a political explanation for health care reform in these two countries. He focuses specifically on the ways in which democratic change in Taiwan and South Korea altered t…
Technovation in Taiwan
No longer able to compete with China and Southeast Asian economies on the basis of cheap skilled labor, Taiwan has begun to explore new industrial sectors, such as biotechnology and the life sciences more generally, as key areas for development. The notion that biotech has been “targeted” by the government naturally conjures up images of the postwar developmental state and its mechanisms for industrial governance. Indeed, the resiliency of the Ea…
Political Transitions in Dominant Party Systems
Institutions and Institutional Purpose
Drawing on theories of institutional evolution, this article contends that despite the centrality of occupationally based social insurance in postwar Korea and Taiwan (and thus the impression of institutional continuity), the welfare state has in fact deepened considerably. The analysis is structured around three distinct eras of social policy reform in Korea and Taiwan: the developmental state, democratic transition, and postindustrialism. The a…
Coordinating Health Biotechnology Development in Asia
This paper examines the tensions between health bio-industrial promotion, on the one hand, and public health protection, on the other, in Korea, Singapore and Taiwan. Specifically, it focuses on the state's role in health technology regulation, bio-ethical mediation, and health technology pricing. In the past, the Asian “developmental” state was very effective in coordinating both public and private sector actors for industrial development. This …
East Asian Welfare Regimes
This chapter by Ito Peng and Joseph Wong on East Asian Asian welfare regimes is very welcome, particularly as a guide for what to watch in our increasingly fluid era of financial, energy and other shocks to the developed and developing economies. The authors review the literature on East Asian welfare states and show how much of it has been concerned with highlighting essential differences between the region and a generalized model of what we see…
East Asia
This article integrates East Asia into the larger welfare state canon and situates the analysis in terms of common global challenges. Explaining East Asia's ‘exceptionalism’ resulted in a first wave of comparative social policy analysis of the region during the 1990s. Three complementary explanations emerged: Confucian values, the absence of leftist power resources, and the primacy of productivism. These perspectives offer insight into the unique…
HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders before and during the era of combination antiretroviral therapy
Combination antiretroviral therapy (CART) has greatly reduced medical morbidity and mortality with HIV infection, but high rates of HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders (HAND) continue to be reported. Because large HIV-infected (HIV+) and uninfected (HIV-) groups have not been studied with similar methods in the pre-CART and CART eras, it is unclear whether CART has changed the prevalence, nature, and clinical correlates of HAND. We used compa…
Wealth, Health and Democracy in East Asia and Latin America - By James W. McGuire
Run of the Red Queen
Run of the Red Queen: Government, Innovation, Globalization and Economic Growth in China . New Haven, CT : Yale University Press . xviii + 278 pages. ISBN 9780300152715 , $35.00 cloth . Breznitz, Dan and Murphree, Michael . 2011 . The publication of Run of the Red Queen: Government, Innovation, Globalization and Economic Growth in China could not have come at a better time. Ever since China surpassed Japan as the world's second largest economy, t…
The Strength to Concede
Authoritarian ruling parties are expected to be exceptionally resistant to democratization. Yet some of the strongest authoritarian parties in the world have not resisted democratization, but have embraced it. This is because their raison d'etre is to continue ruling, not necessarily to remain authoritarian. Democratization requires that ruling parties hold free and fair elections, but not that they lose them. Authoritarian ruling parties can thu…
Criteria to assess potential reverse innovations
BACKGROUND: Low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are developing novel approaches to healthcare that may be relevant to high-income countries (HICs). These include products, services, organizational processes, or policies that improve access, cost, or efficiency of healthcare. However, given the challenge of replication, it is difficult to identify innovations that could be successfully adapted to high-income settings. We present a set of crit…
Combating Covid-19 in Democratic Taiwan and South Korea
South Korea and Taiwan effectively suppressed the coronavirus without the authoritarian measures imposed in China or the lockdowns used elsewhere. They responded quickly, communicated clearly and consistently about the threat. Both governments had prior experiences with contagions to prepare for an epidemic. And both states had introduced universal health care during their periods of democratization, shaping a consensus among citizens about equit…
Chinese Musical Culture in the Global Context – Modernization and Internationalization of Traditional Chinese Music in Twenty-First Century
Political science (21 works) · Economics (18 works) · Politics (15 works) · Law (12 works) · Democracy (11 works) · Development economics (11 works) · Political economy (11 works) · China (10 works) · Economic growth (9 works) · Asian Industrial and Economic Development (7 works)