Yeun-Wen Ku
Biographic Data
| ID | 6025778 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yeun-Wen Ku |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yeun-Wen |
| FAMILY NAME | Ku |
| SIGNATURE | KU Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Taiwan University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Sacrificed Children: Listening to the Voices of Former Young Carers Supporting Parents with Mental Illness
Numerous studies have indicated that parents who are affected by mental illness experience emotional/behavioural difficulties which can have major impacts on parenting and the child–parent relationship. However, research on the experiences of young carers living with a mentally ill parent and the adversity they face remains comparatively limited. This article reports findings from a qualitative and retrospective study undertaken with nineteen Tai…
Welfare attitude and economic developmentalism in new democratic developmental welfare state: An examination of the Taiwanese case
Do political democratization and the worsening income inequality result in the increase in public support for redistribution in East Asian democratic developmental welfare states? This study aims to examine atypical case of new democratic developmental welfare state, Taiwan, through quantitative analysis. Our empirical findings demonstrated that the perception of income inequality will cause dissatisfaction with the performance of the democratic …
Community practice at a crossroad: The approaches and challenges in Taiwan
Community practice broadly refers to work that ‘involves empowerment through organized groups of people acting collectively to control decisions, projects, programs, and policies that affect them as a community’ (Rubin and Rubin, 2007). Rothman (1987, 2008) categorized community practice into three models: social planning, locality development, and social action. In practice, these models have become blended whilst the boundaries amongst market, …
Trust inspires trust: Medical social workers’ perspectives of trust in the context of Taiwan
Healthcare service is a highly trusted field but necessitates a trust relationship with service users. In this field, medical social workers are crucial service providers. In this study, exploratory research was conducted to investigate the meaning of trust from the perspective of medical social workers in Taiwan. The findings are presented as follows: (a) relationship-based trust, (b) trust in the medical system and (c) the potential role for tr…
After massification: The quest for entrepreneurial universities and technological advancement in Taiwan
In order to enhance its national competitiveness in the global market place, the Taiwan government has followed the US model by expanding the higher education sector. One strategy is to expand new private universities to meet the pressing demand for higher education among secondary school graduates. In the last two decades, more than 160 universities (both national and private) have been established in Taiwan, resulting in a rate of enrolment inc…
Resource Allocation in Families With Children in Taiwan: Do Poverty and Family Structure Make a Difference
Using the 2008 Family Income and Expenditure Survey, this article examines resource allocation among families with children in Taiwan, with attention to poverty and family structure. The findings illustrated that families with poverty-level incomes faced more disadvantages than high-income families. Families in poverty allocated significantly more of their income to food and less to health. In addition, compared to nuclear families, grandparent-o…
Social Cohesion in Greater China: Challenges for Social Policy and Governance
This book critically examines the issues and challenges of social development faced by societies in Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, with particular reference to the major strategies these societies adopt to promote social cohesion and civil harmony in the context of globalization. It focuses on people who have been socially marginalized by the Asian financial crisis in 1997, and examines the measures Greater China has adopted to balance eco…
Healthy Democracies: Welfare Politics in Taiwan and South Korea . Joseph Wong
Is There a Way Out? Global Competition and Social Reform in Taiwan
Globalisation, and its possible impacts, has been widely discussed and debated in Taiwan. The economic technocracies argue for globalisation, as a triumph of the free market and minimum state intervention, through measures of tax cuts, privatisation, deregulation, and so forth, as required to secure Taiwan's economic development in the future. However, rising unemployment accompanied by the new poverty requires more state provisions of social wel…
Welfare Capitalism in Taiwan: State, Economy, and Social Policy
List of Tables - List of Figures - Acknowledgements - Introduction - PART 1: STATE WELFARE DEVELOPMENT IN TAIWAN: AN OVERVIEW OF HISTORY AND LITERATURE - Colonial Taiwan (1895-1945) - Postwar Taiwan (1945-1979) - Taiwan in Transition (1980-1990) - Issues and Explanations - PART 2: WELFARE CAPITALISM IN TAIWAN: TOWARDS AN INTEGRATED MARXIST ACCOUNT - The Specific Feature of Taiwan's Capitalist Development - The State Autonomy in Taiwan - Education…
Welfare Capitalism in Taiwan: State, Economy and Social Policy
This book explores the development of state welfare in Taiwan, focusing on the interconnection between capitalist development and state welfare from 1895 to 1990, using an integrated Marxist perspecti
Is There a Way Out? Global Competition and Social Reform in Taiwan
Globalisation, and its possible impacts, has been widely discussed and debated in Taiwan. The economic technocracies argue for globalisation, as a triumph of the free market and minimum state intervention, through measures of tax cuts, privatisation, deregulation, and so forth, as required to secure Taiwan's economic development in the future. However, rising unemployment accompanied by the new poverty requires more state provisions of social wel…
Welfare attitude and economic developmentalism in new democratic developmental welfare state: An examination of the Taiwanese case
Do political democratization and the worsening income inequality result in the increase in public support for redistribution in East Asian democratic developmental welfare states? This study aims to examine atypical case of new democratic developmental welfare state, Taiwan, through quantitative analysis. Our empirical findings demonstrated that the perception of income inequality will cause dissatisfaction with the performance of the democratic …
Trust inspires trust: Medical social workers’ perspectives of trust in the context of Taiwan
Healthcare service is a highly trusted field but necessitates a trust relationship with service users. In this field, medical social workers are crucial service providers. In this study, exploratory research was conducted to investigate the meaning of trust from the perspective of medical social workers in Taiwan. The findings are presented as follows: (a) relationship-based trust, (b) trust in the medical system and (c) the potential role for tr…
After massification: The quest for entrepreneurial universities and technological advancement in Taiwan
In order to enhance its national competitiveness in the global market place, the Taiwan government has followed the US model by expanding the higher education sector. One strategy is to expand new private universities to meet the pressing demand for higher education among secondary school graduates. In the last two decades, more than 160 universities (both national and private) have been established in Taiwan, resulting in a rate of enrolment inc…
Welfare Capitalism in Taiwan: State, Economy and Social Policy
This book explores the development of state welfare in Taiwan, focusing on the interconnection between capitalist development and state welfare from 1895 to 1990, using an integrated Marxist perspecti
Welfare Capitalism in Taiwan: State, Economy, and Social Policy
List of Tables - List of Figures - Acknowledgements - Introduction - PART 1: STATE WELFARE DEVELOPMENT IN TAIWAN: AN OVERVIEW OF HISTORY AND LITERATURE - Colonial Taiwan (1895-1945) - Postwar Taiwan (1945-1979) - Taiwan in Transition (1980-1990) - Issues and Explanations - PART 2: WELFARE CAPITALISM IN TAIWAN: TOWARDS AN INTEGRATED MARXIST ACCOUNT - The Specific Feature of Taiwan's Capitalist Development - The State Autonomy in Taiwan - Education…
Is There a Way Out? Global Competition and Social Reform in Taiwan
Globalisation, and its possible impacts, has been widely discussed and debated in Taiwan. The economic technocracies argue for globalisation, as a triumph of the free market and minimum state intervention, through measures of tax cuts, privatisation, deregulation, and so forth, as required to secure Taiwan's economic development in the future. However, rising unemployment accompanied by the new poverty requires more state provisions of social wel…
Healthy Democracies: Welfare Politics in Taiwan and South Korea . Joseph Wong
Social Cohesion in Greater China: Challenges for Social Policy and Governance
This book critically examines the issues and challenges of social development faced by societies in Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, with particular reference to the major strategies these societies adopt to promote social cohesion and civil harmony in the context of globalization. It focuses on people who have been socially marginalized by the Asian financial crisis in 1997, and examines the measures Greater China has adopted to balance eco…
Resource Allocation in Families With Children in Taiwan: Do Poverty and Family Structure Make a Difference
Using the 2008 Family Income and Expenditure Survey, this article examines resource allocation among families with children in Taiwan, with attention to poverty and family structure. The findings illustrated that families with poverty-level incomes faced more disadvantages than high-income families. Families in poverty allocated significantly more of their income to food and less to health. In addition, compared to nuclear families, grandparent-o…
After massification: The quest for entrepreneurial universities and technological advancement in Taiwan
In order to enhance its national competitiveness in the global market place, the Taiwan government has followed the US model by expanding the higher education sector. One strategy is to expand new private universities to meet the pressing demand for higher education among secondary school graduates. In the last two decades, more than 160 universities (both national and private) have been established in Taiwan, resulting in a rate of enrolment inc…
Community practice at a crossroad: The approaches and challenges in Taiwan
Community practice broadly refers to work that ‘involves empowerment through organized groups of people acting collectively to control decisions, projects, programs, and policies that affect them as a community’ (Rubin and Rubin, 2007). Rothman (1987, 2008) categorized community practice into three models: social planning, locality development, and social action. In practice, these models have become blended whilst the boundaries amongst market, …
Trust inspires trust: Medical social workers’ perspectives of trust in the context of Taiwan
Healthcare service is a highly trusted field but necessitates a trust relationship with service users. In this field, medical social workers are crucial service providers. In this study, exploratory research was conducted to investigate the meaning of trust from the perspective of medical social workers in Taiwan. The findings are presented as follows: (a) relationship-based trust, (b) trust in the medical system and (c) the potential role for tr…
Welfare attitude and economic developmentalism in new democratic developmental welfare state: An examination of the Taiwanese case
Do political democratization and the worsening income inequality result in the increase in public support for redistribution in East Asian democratic developmental welfare states? This study aims to examine atypical case of new democratic developmental welfare state, Taiwan, through quantitative analysis. Our empirical findings demonstrated that the perception of income inequality will cause dissatisfaction with the performance of the democratic …
The Sacrificed Children: Listening to the Voices of Former Young Carers Supporting Parents with Mental Illness
Numerous studies have indicated that parents who are affected by mental illness experience emotional/behavioural difficulties which can have major impacts on parenting and the child–parent relationship. However, research on the experiences of young carers living with a mentally ill parent and the adversity they face remains comparatively limited. This article reports findings from a qualitative and retrospective study undertaken with nineteen Tai…
Political science (9 works) · Economics (7 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Market economy (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Welfare (4 works)