Dismantling the Chinese mini-welfare state? Marketization and the politics of institutional transformation, 1979–1999

Dados Bibliográficos

ID6180769
AutoresEdward Gu (0000-0002-7212-3865, Harvard University, autor correspondente), Edward X Gu (Fairbank Center, Harvard University, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA)
Ano2001
Volume34
Fascículo1
Páginas91-111
Data de publicação2001-03-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoCommunist and Post-Communist Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0967-067X • E-ISSN: 1873-6920
EditoraUniversity of California Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1016/s0967-067x(00)00025-8
PMID19170270
OpenAlexW193291344
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas18
Referências citadas23

This article presents a systematic examination of the workplace-based welfare system in urban China. During the pre-reform period from 1949 to 1978, most welfare provisions in China were delivered and the majority of welfare spending was spent by workplace units. Since China's market transition started in the late 1970s, this workplace-based welfare system is no longer financially sustainable, and more importantly its functioning constitutes an impediment to the formation of an institutional configuration for a market economy in China. The Chinese government has therefore experienced increasing pressure to reshape this workplacebased welfare system into a genuine welfare state, so as to shift the responsibilities of welfare provisions from individual work units to government bodies. Some institutional arrangements characteristic of welfare pluralism, which emphasize that the state, employers, and individuals share welfare responsibilities, are also incorporated into the newly emergent social welfare system in urban China

Business · China · Economic system · Economics · Market economy · Marketization · Political science · Politics · Welfare · Welfare state · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Employment and Welfare Studies · Law · Social Policy and Reform Studies