Jooha Lee
Biographic Data
| ID | 4383587 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jooha Lee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jooha |
| FAMILY NAME | Lee |
| SIGNATURE | LEE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dongguk University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9258-9374 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Politics of Care Regimes in East Asia: Reconfiguring State Autonomy Through Electoral Competition and Civil Society Mobilisation
This paper investigates why Japan, South Korea and Taiwan have adopted distinct care strategies, despite shared demographic challenges and developmental legacies. It advances a dual‐layered framework of state autonomy that distinguishes between elected and unelected state actors and integrates cross‐national differences in electoral competition and civil society mobilisation. Drawing on a most‐similar systems design and comparative process tracin…
Stakeholder framing, communicative interaction, and policy legitimacy: Anti-smoking policy in South Korea
Social Politics of Welfare Reform in Korea and Japan: A New Way of Mobilising Power Resources
Welfare politics can be largely assessed by the following three kinds of political prisms: bureaucratic politics, partisan politics, and social politics. Bureaucratic and partisan politics which accounted for the evolution of welfare states in East Asia are not adequate to illuminate the difference in recent welfare reforms between Korea and Japan after a significant political transition. Social politics is construed as a triangular relationship …
Distorted policy transfer? South Korea’s adaptation of UK social enterprise policy
This study draws upon communicative processes in policy transfer to consider the ways in which policy may be adapted to context or distorted. The theoretical framework is used to investigate exactly what the South Korean government borrowed from UK social enterprise policy. Despite claims that the UK was the source of both the general policy direction and the particular regulatory device, the Korean government did not learn about the specific con…
Is “legitimized” policy always successful? Policy legitimacy and cultural policy in Korea
What happens after the passage of reform initiatives? Two dimensions of social policy reform in Korea
This article aims to present a comprehensive analysis of social policy reform, encompassing its two dimensions, that is, reform decision-making and implementation, with reference to Korea’s new social assistance programme. In the social policy reform after the economic crisis of 1997, less was delivered locally than decided centrally. First, there were decision deficits centrally, which became visible locally. This was considerably attributable t…
Poverty, Inequality, and Democracy: "Mixed Governance" and Welfare in South Korea
This article sets out to tackle three main questions: 1) How did South Korea lift itself out of utter destruction and destitution to affluence?; 2) How could a ruthlessly authoritarian regime be transformed with relative ease into a stable democratic polity?; and 3) What institutions and governance enabled the authoritarian and democratic governments of South Korea to reduce poverty and inequality
Another dimension of welfare reform: The implementation of the Employment Insurance Programme in Korea
A shift in policy goals at the central decision‐making level does not always produce the expected degree of change in policy implementation. This article investigates what actually happens at the local level in respect of the implementation of the reformed Employment Insurance Programme of Korea through case studies covering three district governments. Given the sources of difficulty in implementation, local case studies show that the change that…
Politics of Social Policy-Making in South Korea an Japan
Until recently, welfare politics in Korea and Japan tended to be dominated by conservative forces "from above." This paper investigates the formation and domination of such forces from above, with a focus on the interaction between institutional arrangements and strategic maneuvering by political actors which, I argue, constitutes the politics of (social) policy-making. The notion of the politics of social policy-making aims to provide a more pol…
Poverty, Inequality, and Democracy: "Mixed Governance" and Welfare in South Korea
This article sets out to tackle three main questions: 1) How did South Korea lift itself out of utter destruction and destitution to affluence?; 2) How could a ruthlessly authoritarian regime be transformed with relative ease into a stable democratic polity?; and 3) What institutions and governance enabled the authoritarian and democratic governments of South Korea to reduce poverty and inequality
Is “legitimized” policy always successful? Policy legitimacy and cultural policy in Korea
Social Politics of Welfare Reform in Korea and Japan: A New Way of Mobilising Power Resources
Welfare politics can be largely assessed by the following three kinds of political prisms: bureaucratic politics, partisan politics, and social politics. Bureaucratic and partisan politics which accounted for the evolution of welfare states in East Asia are not adequate to illuminate the difference in recent welfare reforms between Korea and Japan after a significant political transition. Social politics is construed as a triangular relationship …
Distorted policy transfer? South Korea’s adaptation of UK social enterprise policy
This study draws upon communicative processes in policy transfer to consider the ways in which policy may be adapted to context or distorted. The theoretical framework is used to investigate exactly what the South Korean government borrowed from UK social enterprise policy. Despite claims that the UK was the source of both the general policy direction and the particular regulatory device, the Korean government did not learn about the specific con…
Another dimension of welfare reform: The implementation of the Employment Insurance Programme in Korea
A shift in policy goals at the central decision‐making level does not always produce the expected degree of change in policy implementation. This article investigates what actually happens at the local level in respect of the implementation of the reformed Employment Insurance Programme of Korea through case studies covering three district governments. Given the sources of difficulty in implementation, local case studies show that the change that…
Politics of Social Policy-Making in South Korea an Japan
Until recently, welfare politics in Korea and Japan tended to be dominated by conservative forces "from above." This paper investigates the formation and domination of such forces from above, with a focus on the interaction between institutional arrangements and strategic maneuvering by political actors which, I argue, constitutes the politics of (social) policy-making. The notion of the politics of social policy-making aims to provide a more pol…
Another dimension of welfare reform: The implementation of the Employment Insurance Programme in Korea
A shift in policy goals at the central decision‐making level does not always produce the expected degree of change in policy implementation. This article investigates what actually happens at the local level in respect of the implementation of the reformed Employment Insurance Programme of Korea through case studies covering three district governments. Given the sources of difficulty in implementation, local case studies show that the change that…
Poverty, Inequality, and Democracy: "Mixed Governance" and Welfare in South Korea
This article sets out to tackle three main questions: 1) How did South Korea lift itself out of utter destruction and destitution to affluence?; 2) How could a ruthlessly authoritarian regime be transformed with relative ease into a stable democratic polity?; and 3) What institutions and governance enabled the authoritarian and democratic governments of South Korea to reduce poverty and inequality
What happens after the passage of reform initiatives? Two dimensions of social policy reform in Korea
This article aims to present a comprehensive analysis of social policy reform, encompassing its two dimensions, that is, reform decision-making and implementation, with reference to Korea’s new social assistance programme. In the social policy reform after the economic crisis of 1997, less was delivered locally than decided centrally. First, there were decision deficits centrally, which became visible locally. This was considerably attributable t…
Is “legitimized” policy always successful? Policy legitimacy and cultural policy in Korea
Social Politics of Welfare Reform in Korea and Japan: A New Way of Mobilising Power Resources
Welfare politics can be largely assessed by the following three kinds of political prisms: bureaucratic politics, partisan politics, and social politics. Bureaucratic and partisan politics which accounted for the evolution of welfare states in East Asia are not adequate to illuminate the difference in recent welfare reforms between Korea and Japan after a significant political transition. Social politics is construed as a triangular relationship …
Distorted policy transfer? South Korea’s adaptation of UK social enterprise policy
This study draws upon communicative processes in policy transfer to consider the ways in which policy may be adapted to context or distorted. The theoretical framework is used to investigate exactly what the South Korean government borrowed from UK social enterprise policy. Despite claims that the UK was the source of both the general policy direction and the particular regulatory device, the Korean government did not learn about the specific con…
Stakeholder framing, communicative interaction, and policy legitimacy: Anti-smoking policy in South Korea
The Politics of Care Regimes in East Asia: Reconfiguring State Autonomy Through Electoral Competition and Civil Society Mobilisation
This paper investigates why Japan, South Korea and Taiwan have adopted distinct care strategies, despite shared demographic challenges and developmental legacies. It advances a dual‐layered framework of state autonomy that distinguishes between elected and unelected state actors and integrates cross‐national differences in electoral competition and civil society mobilisation. Drawing on a most‐similar systems design and comparative process tracin…
Political science (8 works) · Politics (7 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Public Administration (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Public Administration (5 works) · Asian Industrial and Economic Development (4 works) · Business (3 works)