Ka Lin
Biographic Data
| ID | 4174860 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ka Lin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ka |
| FAMILY NAME | Lin |
| SIGNATURE | LIN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Zhejiang University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5282-0241 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 68 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Bnk48วัฒนธรรมบันเทิงแบบใหม่ในสังคมไทยร่วมสมัย: ประวัติศาสตร์เชิงวิเคราะห์/ BNK48: Modern entertainment culture in contemporary Thai society - An analytical historical perspective
Sounds of Authority: The Cultural and Social History of Western Music in Japanese-Occupied Hong Kong
This article examines Japan’s cultural policies in occupied Hong Kong (1941–45), focusing on the promotion of Western music as a strategic political tool within the broader context of Japan’s imperial ambitions in East Asia. Through transimperial comparison, it analyzes how different imperial powers approached cultural governance within the same colonial space, contrasting Japanese deliberate cultural intervention with previous British administra…
The changing contexts of international aid: Examining Indian experiences for a BRICS way
Concepts like Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Total Official Support for Sustainable Development (TOSSD) and South – South Cooperation (SSC) have a significant impact on national strategies for international aid. This paper examines India's policy ideas and local practices to explore the contexts of the national implementation of the SDGs for global public well-being. The study approaches these issues through three avenues: the SDG-oriented…
Exploring the Relationships Between Four Aging Ideals: A Bibliometric Study
When examining research articles on the aging strategies, four ideals (i.e., successful aging, healthy aging, productive aging and active aging) could be explored by conducting bibliometric analyses. For the literature analysis, general information on the four aging ideals was understood through visualization analysis; the intellectual base and research hotspots were intuitively observed. CiteSpace was used as the method to conduct the co-occurre…
Exploring the association between grandparental care and child development: Evidence from China
Grandparental care has become an involuntary choice in life for many families, mainly due to parents' unavailability to provide care and the lack of public or affordable private childcare. This phenomenon has raised concerns regarding the effects of grandparental care along the dimensions of child development. This study aims to test the association between grandparental care and child development in three dimensions: subjective wellbeing, behavi…
Social Quarantine and Its Four Modes: Conceptional Exploration and the Theoretical Construction of the Policies Against Covid-19
Building on the studies of health quarantine from a social perspective, this article explores the complex contexts of social quarantine as a mode of public health, a mode of community action and a behavioural and psychological mode of social distancing. To establish a conceptual investigation of the “social quarantine” issue, this study investigates four approaches to quarantine: public health, social administration, behavioural norms, and psycho…
Social Quality Measurement and Perceived Social Quality
This study investigates the difference between the maps of social quality and perceived social quality. Using survey data collected from Peshawar, a prominent city in Pakistan, we compare the general and the perceived maps of social quality drawn from survey respondents based on their stands of income, education, age, and gender. With this comparison, the study conducts the regression analysis about the data to reveal the relations between these …
Mapping Social Quality Clusters and Its Implications
An Exogenous Path of Development: Explaining the Rise of Corporate Social Responsibility in China
Although the notion of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has been largely Western driven, it has now also entered the popular discourse in many non-Western countries. In dissimilar social settings, the driving force of CSR development differs between its Western origins and its non-Western adaptors. This study examines the developmental dynamics of CSR in China, and how such force have influenced the CSR discourse in this country. This Chines…
The Quality of Society and Life Satisfaction in China
Social Quality Theory: A New Perspective on Social Development
Social policy and social order in East Asia: An evolutionary view
This study contrasts two varieties of comparative analysis: on one hand, researchers may look to explain the historical development of the East Asian welfare systems (EAWS) with an eye towards delineating some common trends, while on the other hand, they may seek to recognize the institutional features of these systems through the cross-regime comparisons. We discuss problems in the operation of these two approaches, instead choosing to employ co…
Repositioning three models of social policy with reference to East Asian welfare systems
This article compares features of the redistributive, developmental and productivist models of social policy. Using East Asian welfare systems as examples, it illustrates the application of the productivist and developmental models, and describes the contextual factors influencing these models. It argues that each model is an outgrowth of a particular social, economic and political context. When the context changes, the choice of model will also …
A methodological exploration of social quality research: A comparative evaluation of the quality of life and social quality approaches
This article discusses two basic theories of social measurement in development studies - the quality of life (QOL) and social quality (SQ) theories. The QOL theory has a long tradition in the study of individuals' living standards, whereas SQ theory helps us understand the traits of social circumstances. Based on survey data collected from six Asian societies, a number of QOL and SQ factors are examined in this study to show how these two approac…
Social Exclusion and Its Causes in East Asian Societies: Evidences from SQSQ Survey Data
The Prototype of Social Quality Theory and its Applicability to Asian Societies
Social theories are heavily context-embedded, and their creation is naturally interwoven with particular contexts. Once they are disseminated within a new societal landscape, adjustments and adaptation should be made. This paper investigates the entangled contexts of the social quality theory and its applicability to Asian societies. rough a comparative analysis of the key questions that this theory purports to answer, as well as its proposed ans…
Theoretical Visions versus Policymaking Realities? Searching for the Logical Grounds of Expansion and Retrenchment Arguments in Studies on Nordic Social Policy Models from the 1960s to the 2000s
Theoretical welfare analyses emphasising the Nordic welfare regimes' structural stability have increasingly clashed, above all since the late 1980s, with policy analyses emphasising that Nordic welfare benefits should be cut back. This study analyses the ideological, political and broader institutional reasons for why this disjuncture increased. We argue that theory and policy analyses may be reconciled by "talking past one another" on definition…
State institutions, political power and social policy choices: Reconstructing the origins of Nordic models of social policy
The origins of the Nordic social policy model(s) need to be viewed broadly and historically from its late nineteenth‐century initiation to the immediate postwar period (1940s to the early 1960s), when a social democratic model began to consolidate. In reference to the alternate social policy traditions of British poor relief and German occupational insurance, this article analyzes the sociopolitical contexts that finally prevented Scandinavian st…
Social Policymaking and Its Institutional Basis: Transition of The Chinese Social Security System
This article discusses Chinese social policy development in response to the growth of the market economy. It provides a general overview of the system's evolution in three stages: (1) the pre-reform period when a system of enterprise welfare was in operation; (2) a period of system transition; (3) the stage when state welfare began to take shape. These developmental trends are interpreted on the basis of three types of institutional relations: th…
Cultural Traditions and the Scandinavian Social Policy Model
This article assesses the extent to which cultural interpretation may be useful in understanding social policy models. By surveying cultural traditions, the study explores the context in which the Scandinavian social policy model was developed. The study investigates the institutional legacies of Scandinavian agrarian societies and identifies certain cultural traits, making observations as to their implications for the social policy model. The st…
Sectors, Agents and Rationale: A Study of the Scandinavian Welfare States with Special Reference to the Welfare Society Model
The widely held assumption that the welfare society model is superseding the welfare state model has restructured the common view of the future of social policy all around the world. This study brings local issues into focus with an investigation of the applicability of the welfare society model in the Scandinavian context. The study first examines the strength of the various welfare agents sector by sector to define the sectoral rationale, and s…
Family policy and social order – comparing the dynamics of family policy‐making in Scandinavia and Confucian Asia
This article compares family policies in two Scandinavian and three Confucian Asian countries. Through a general survey on schemes of child allowance and parental leave, it seeks explaining factors for cross‐regime diversity of the welfare systems. In focus are the agents affecting the family policy‐making process, including social classes, the state, women and families. In order to assess the roles these agents have played, this study retraces t…
Chinese Perceptions of the Scandinavian Social Policy Model
This paper highlights the stereotypical images characteristic of Chinese social research on the Scandinavian model. How do Chinese commentators explain the development of the Scandinavian social policy model and how do they assess it? Is it deemed morally sound and sustainable? Reasons for the contrasts of interpretation between Chinese and Scandinavian authors are categorized along two dimensions. There are “missing elements”, typically the noti…
Family policy and social order – comparing the dynamics of family policy‐making in Scandinavia and Confucian Asia
This article compares family policies in two Scandinavian and three Confucian Asian countries. Through a general survey on schemes of child allowance and parental leave, it seeks explaining factors for cross‐regime diversity of the welfare systems. In focus are the agents affecting the family policy‐making process, including social classes, the state, women and families. In order to assess the roles these agents have played, this study retraces t…
The Quality of Society and Life Satisfaction in China
Social policy and social order in East Asia: An evolutionary view
This study contrasts two varieties of comparative analysis: on one hand, researchers may look to explain the historical development of the East Asian welfare systems (EAWS) with an eye towards delineating some common trends, while on the other hand, they may seek to recognize the institutional features of these systems through the cross-regime comparisons. We discuss problems in the operation of these two approaches, instead choosing to employ co…
Sectors, Agents and Rationale: A Study of the Scandinavian Welfare States with Special Reference to the Welfare Society Model
The widely held assumption that the welfare society model is superseding the welfare state model has restructured the common view of the future of social policy all around the world. This study brings local issues into focus with an investigation of the applicability of the welfare society model in the Scandinavian context. The study first examines the strength of the various welfare agents sector by sector to define the sectoral rationale, and s…
Social Exclusion and Its Causes in East Asian Societies: Evidences from SQSQ Survey Data
The Prototype of Social Quality Theory and its Applicability to Asian Societies
Social theories are heavily context-embedded, and their creation is naturally interwoven with particular contexts. Once they are disseminated within a new societal landscape, adjustments and adaptation should be made. This paper investigates the entangled contexts of the social quality theory and its applicability to Asian societies. rough a comparative analysis of the key questions that this theory purports to answer, as well as its proposed ans…
A methodological exploration of social quality research: A comparative evaluation of the quality of life and social quality approaches
This article discusses two basic theories of social measurement in development studies - the quality of life (QOL) and social quality (SQ) theories. The QOL theory has a long tradition in the study of individuals' living standards, whereas SQ theory helps us understand the traits of social circumstances. Based on survey data collected from six Asian societies, a number of QOL and SQ factors are examined in this study to show how these two approac…
Mapping Social Quality Clusters and Its Implications
An Exogenous Path of Development: Explaining the Rise of Corporate Social Responsibility in China
Although the notion of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has been largely Western driven, it has now also entered the popular discourse in many non-Western countries. In dissimilar social settings, the driving force of CSR development differs between its Western origins and its non-Western adaptors. This study examines the developmental dynamics of CSR in China, and how such force have influenced the CSR discourse in this country. This Chines…
Social Policymaking and Its Institutional Basis: Transition of The Chinese Social Security System
This article discusses Chinese social policy development in response to the growth of the market economy. It provides a general overview of the system's evolution in three stages: (1) the pre-reform period when a system of enterprise welfare was in operation; (2) a period of system transition; (3) the stage when state welfare began to take shape. These developmental trends are interpreted on the basis of three types of institutional relations: th…
Chinese Perceptions of the Scandinavian Social Policy Model
This paper highlights the stereotypical images characteristic of Chinese social research on the Scandinavian model. How do Chinese commentators explain the development of the Scandinavian social policy model and how do they assess it? Is it deemed morally sound and sustainable? Reasons for the contrasts of interpretation between Chinese and Scandinavian authors are categorized along two dimensions. There are “missing elements”, typically the noti…
Exploring the association between grandparental care and child development: Evidence from China
Grandparental care has become an involuntary choice in life for many families, mainly due to parents' unavailability to provide care and the lack of public or affordable private childcare. This phenomenon has raised concerns regarding the effects of grandparental care along the dimensions of child development. This study aims to test the association between grandparental care and child development in three dimensions: subjective wellbeing, behavi…
Repositioning three models of social policy with reference to East Asian welfare systems
This article compares features of the redistributive, developmental and productivist models of social policy. Using East Asian welfare systems as examples, it illustrates the application of the productivist and developmental models, and describes the contextual factors influencing these models. It argues that each model is an outgrowth of a particular social, economic and political context. When the context changes, the choice of model will also …
State institutions, political power and social policy choices: Reconstructing the origins of Nordic models of social policy
The origins of the Nordic social policy model(s) need to be viewed broadly and historically from its late nineteenth‐century initiation to the immediate postwar period (1940s to the early 1960s), when a social democratic model began to consolidate. In reference to the alternate social policy traditions of British poor relief and German occupational insurance, this article analyzes the sociopolitical contexts that finally prevented Scandinavian st…
Cultural Traditions and the Scandinavian Social Policy Model
This article assesses the extent to which cultural interpretation may be useful in understanding social policy models. By surveying cultural traditions, the study explores the context in which the Scandinavian social policy model was developed. The study investigates the institutional legacies of Scandinavian agrarian societies and identifies certain cultural traits, making observations as to their implications for the social policy model. The st…
Social Quality Measurement and Perceived Social Quality
This study investigates the difference between the maps of social quality and perceived social quality. Using survey data collected from Peshawar, a prominent city in Pakistan, we compare the general and the perceived maps of social quality drawn from survey respondents based on their stands of income, education, age, and gender. With this comparison, the study conducts the regression analysis about the data to reveal the relations between these …
Chinese Perceptions of the Scandinavian Social Policy Model
This paper highlights the stereotypical images characteristic of Chinese social research on the Scandinavian model. How do Chinese commentators explain the development of the Scandinavian social policy model and how do they assess it? Is it deemed morally sound and sustainable? Reasons for the contrasts of interpretation between Chinese and Scandinavian authors are categorized along two dimensions. There are “missing elements”, typically the noti…
Family policy and social order – comparing the dynamics of family policy‐making in Scandinavia and Confucian Asia
This article compares family policies in two Scandinavian and three Confucian Asian countries. Through a general survey on schemes of child allowance and parental leave, it seeks explaining factors for cross‐regime diversity of the welfare systems. In focus are the agents affecting the family policy‐making process, including social classes, the state, women and families. In order to assess the roles these agents have played, this study retraces t…
Sectors, Agents and Rationale: A Study of the Scandinavian Welfare States with Special Reference to the Welfare Society Model
The widely held assumption that the welfare society model is superseding the welfare state model has restructured the common view of the future of social policy all around the world. This study brings local issues into focus with an investigation of the applicability of the welfare society model in the Scandinavian context. The study first examines the strength of the various welfare agents sector by sector to define the sectoral rationale, and s…
Cultural Traditions and the Scandinavian Social Policy Model
This article assesses the extent to which cultural interpretation may be useful in understanding social policy models. By surveying cultural traditions, the study explores the context in which the Scandinavian social policy model was developed. The study investigates the institutional legacies of Scandinavian agrarian societies and identifies certain cultural traits, making observations as to their implications for the social policy model. The st…
Theoretical Visions versus Policymaking Realities? Searching for the Logical Grounds of Expansion and Retrenchment Arguments in Studies on Nordic Social Policy Models from the 1960s to the 2000s
Theoretical welfare analyses emphasising the Nordic welfare regimes' structural stability have increasingly clashed, above all since the late 1980s, with policy analyses emphasising that Nordic welfare benefits should be cut back. This study analyses the ideological, political and broader institutional reasons for why this disjuncture increased. We argue that theory and policy analyses may be reconciled by "talking past one another" on definition…
State institutions, political power and social policy choices: Reconstructing the origins of Nordic models of social policy
The origins of the Nordic social policy model(s) need to be viewed broadly and historically from its late nineteenth‐century initiation to the immediate postwar period (1940s to the early 1960s), when a social democratic model began to consolidate. In reference to the alternate social policy traditions of British poor relief and German occupational insurance, this article analyzes the sociopolitical contexts that finally prevented Scandinavian st…
Social Policymaking and Its Institutional Basis: Transition of The Chinese Social Security System
This article discusses Chinese social policy development in response to the growth of the market economy. It provides a general overview of the system's evolution in three stages: (1) the pre-reform period when a system of enterprise welfare was in operation; (2) a period of system transition; (3) the stage when state welfare began to take shape. These developmental trends are interpreted on the basis of three types of institutional relations: th…
The Prototype of Social Quality Theory and its Applicability to Asian Societies
Social theories are heavily context-embedded, and their creation is naturally interwoven with particular contexts. Once they are disseminated within a new societal landscape, adjustments and adaptation should be made. This paper investigates the entangled contexts of the social quality theory and its applicability to Asian societies. rough a comparative analysis of the key questions that this theory purports to answer, as well as its proposed ans…
Social policy and social order in East Asia: An evolutionary view
This study contrasts two varieties of comparative analysis: on one hand, researchers may look to explain the historical development of the East Asian welfare systems (EAWS) with an eye towards delineating some common trends, while on the other hand, they may seek to recognize the institutional features of these systems through the cross-regime comparisons. We discuss problems in the operation of these two approaches, instead choosing to employ co…
Repositioning three models of social policy with reference to East Asian welfare systems
This article compares features of the redistributive, developmental and productivist models of social policy. Using East Asian welfare systems as examples, it illustrates the application of the productivist and developmental models, and describes the contextual factors influencing these models. It argues that each model is an outgrowth of a particular social, economic and political context. When the context changes, the choice of model will also …
A methodological exploration of social quality research: A comparative evaluation of the quality of life and social quality approaches
This article discusses two basic theories of social measurement in development studies - the quality of life (QOL) and social quality (SQ) theories. The QOL theory has a long tradition in the study of individuals' living standards, whereas SQ theory helps us understand the traits of social circumstances. Based on survey data collected from six Asian societies, a number of QOL and SQ factors are examined in this study to show how these two approac…
Social Exclusion and Its Causes in East Asian Societies: Evidences from SQSQ Survey Data
Social Quality Theory: A New Perspective on Social Development
An Exogenous Path of Development: Explaining the Rise of Corporate Social Responsibility in China
Although the notion of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has been largely Western driven, it has now also entered the popular discourse in many non-Western countries. In dissimilar social settings, the driving force of CSR development differs between its Western origins and its non-Western adaptors. This study examines the developmental dynamics of CSR in China, and how such force have influenced the CSR discourse in this country. This Chines…
The Quality of Society and Life Satisfaction in China
Mapping Social Quality Clusters and Its Implications
Social Quality Measurement and Perceived Social Quality
This study investigates the difference between the maps of social quality and perceived social quality. Using survey data collected from Peshawar, a prominent city in Pakistan, we compare the general and the perceived maps of social quality drawn from survey respondents based on their stands of income, education, age, and gender. With this comparison, the study conducts the regression analysis about the data to reveal the relations between these …
Social Quarantine and Its Four Modes: Conceptional Exploration and the Theoretical Construction of the Policies Against Covid-19
Building on the studies of health quarantine from a social perspective, this article explores the complex contexts of social quarantine as a mode of public health, a mode of community action and a behavioural and psychological mode of social distancing. To establish a conceptual investigation of the “social quarantine” issue, this study investigates four approaches to quarantine: public health, social administration, behavioural norms, and psycho…
Exploring the Relationships Between Four Aging Ideals: A Bibliometric Study
When examining research articles on the aging strategies, four ideals (i.e., successful aging, healthy aging, productive aging and active aging) could be explored by conducting bibliometric analyses. For the literature analysis, general information on the four aging ideals was understood through visualization analysis; the intellectual base and research hotspots were intuitively observed. CiteSpace was used as the method to conduct the co-occurre…
Exploring the association between grandparental care and child development: Evidence from China
Grandparental care has become an involuntary choice in life for many families, mainly due to parents' unavailability to provide care and the lack of public or affordable private childcare. This phenomenon has raised concerns regarding the effects of grandparental care along the dimensions of child development. This study aims to test the association between grandparental care and child development in three dimensions: subjective wellbeing, behavi…
The changing contexts of international aid: Examining Indian experiences for a BRICS way
Concepts like Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Total Official Support for Sustainable Development (TOSSD) and South – South Cooperation (SSC) have a significant impact on national strategies for international aid. This paper examines India's policy ideas and local practices to explore the contexts of the national implementation of the SDGs for global public well-being. The study approaches these issues through three avenues: the SDG-oriented…
Bnk48วัฒนธรรมบันเทิงแบบใหม่ในสังคมไทยร่วมสมัย: ประวัติศาสตร์เชิงวิเคราะห์/ BNK48: Modern entertainment culture in contemporary Thai society - An analytical historical perspective
Sounds of Authority: The Cultural and Social History of Western Music in Japanese-Occupied Hong Kong
This article examines Japan’s cultural policies in occupied Hong Kong (1941–45), focusing on the promotion of Western music as a strategic political tool within the broader context of Japan’s imperial ambitions in East Asia. Through transimperial comparison, it analyzes how different imperial powers approached cultural governance within the same colonial space, contrasting Japanese deliberate cultural intervention with previous British administra…
Sociology (16 works) · Political science (14 works) · Economics (13 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (10 works) · Politics (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Social science (8 works) · China (7 works) · Psychology (7 works)