Pub Date : 2021-08-17DOI: 10.1080/17516234.2021.1966864
Jiho Jang, Chonghee Han, Sunhyuk Kim
ABSTRACT In this paper, we reflect on South Korea’s relative success in dealing with COVID-19 from the perspective of state theories. Korea’s success was due to the legacies of the developmental state, combined with the elements of the regulatory state and the network state, and facilitated by IT development. We also argue that we are witnessing a new state type that no longer features the existing state types’ obsession with economic development. The emerging state type is concerned with human security and actively utilizes IT and collaborative governance to predict and prepare for future contingencies. We label this a ‘provident state’.
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Pub Date : 2021-08-12DOI: 10.1080/17516234.2021.1965726
Lichao Yang, Robert Walker
ABSTRACT The Chinese government’s legitimacy rests on ensuring the contentment of its people and avoiding social instability. In achieving these goals, the government has been massively aided by rising living standards and perhaps by reduced poverty. However, little is known about the contribution of poverty alleviation to political contentment. Therefore, ethnographic research was conducted in eight villages to explore attitudes to social assistance (dibao), a key component in poverty alleviation. Village cadres prioritized social cohesion over poverty relief in administering dibao. Nevertheless, cohesion varied markedly between villages, interacting with styles of village governance, to influence villagers’ (dis-)satisfaction with dibao.
{"title":"Village governance, social cohesion and contentment with social assistance in Northern China","authors":"Lichao Yang, Robert Walker","doi":"10.1080/17516234.2021.1965726","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17516234.2021.1965726","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The Chinese government’s legitimacy rests on ensuring the contentment of its people and avoiding social instability. In achieving these goals, the government has been massively aided by rising living standards and perhaps by reduced poverty. However, little is known about the contribution of poverty alleviation to political contentment. Therefore, ethnographic research was conducted in eight villages to explore attitudes to social assistance (dibao), a key component in poverty alleviation. Village cadres prioritized social cohesion over poverty relief in administering dibao. Nevertheless, cohesion varied markedly between villages, interacting with styles of village governance, to influence villagers’ (dis-)satisfaction with dibao.","PeriodicalId":45051,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian Public Policy","volume":"18 1","pages":"254 - 270"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79798529","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-07-22DOI: 10.1080/17516234.2021.1955644
Sung-Hee Lee
ABSTRACT The paper is aimed at exploring how the meaning of universal free childcare was communicated during the first policy initiation process in 2012. In order to do so, interpretative policy analysis was utilised as a methodological approach, whilst relevant policy documents and in-depth interviews were used for data collection. I argue that failings occurred because the policy implementation was placed on the agenda with a lack of commitment to increasing the number of public childcare centres, as well as disengagement from understanding the gender relations necessary for delivering universal childcare effectively.
{"title":"Why the initiative of free childcare failed to be an effective policy implementation of universal childcare in South Korea","authors":"Sung-Hee Lee","doi":"10.1080/17516234.2021.1955644","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17516234.2021.1955644","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The paper is aimed at exploring how the meaning of universal free childcare was communicated during the first policy initiation process in 2012. In order to do so, interpretative policy analysis was utilised as a methodological approach, whilst relevant policy documents and in-depth interviews were used for data collection. I argue that failings occurred because the policy implementation was placed on the agenda with a lack of commitment to increasing the number of public childcare centres, as well as disengagement from understanding the gender relations necessary for delivering universal childcare effectively.","PeriodicalId":45051,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian Public Policy","volume":"54 1","pages":"558 - 574"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80745559","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-07-16DOI: 10.1080/17516234.2021.1920327
Shu Li
ABSTRACT This study, adopting a secondary analysis from the Low-income and Middle-income Family Living Condition Survey 2018, aims to investigate the magnitude, the basic characteristics, the working conditions of the working poor in Taiwan as well as to assess the government’s policy responses. This study found that the working poor are a group of people who are mainly 26 to 45 years old, high school graduates, technical or service workers. Approximately 70% of the working poor work full-time but still have a family income below the poverty line, indicating that the typical situation of the working poor is ”long working hours and low wages”. In recent years, Taiwan has developed policies to respond to it, including expanding the scope of social assistance and doubling the beneficiaries, raising the minimum wage, protecting the employment rights of atypical workers, providing child allowances, promoting the employment of the disadvantaged, and expanding childcare and long term care services. These policies all have resulted in significant progress. However, the main issue remaining to be addressed is the strict criteria employed in the poverty screening process. These criteria urgently need to be modified to allow more working poor to enter into the social assistance system and obtain assistance. Additionally, reforms in the distribution of social assistance resources and in an aspect of the tax system are suggested.
{"title":"Working poor in Taiwan: profile and policy response","authors":"Shu Li","doi":"10.1080/17516234.2021.1920327","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17516234.2021.1920327","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study, adopting a secondary analysis from the Low-income and Middle-income Family Living Condition Survey 2018, aims to investigate the magnitude, the basic characteristics, the working conditions of the working poor in Taiwan as well as to assess the government’s policy responses. This study found that the working poor are a group of people who are mainly 26 to 45 years old, high school graduates, technical or service workers. Approximately 70% of the working poor work full-time but still have a family income below the poverty line, indicating that the typical situation of the working poor is ”long working hours and low wages”. In recent years, Taiwan has developed policies to respond to it, including expanding the scope of social assistance and doubling the beneficiaries, raising the minimum wage, protecting the employment rights of atypical workers, providing child allowances, promoting the employment of the disadvantaged, and expanding childcare and long term care services. These policies all have resulted in significant progress. However, the main issue remaining to be addressed is the strict criteria employed in the poverty screening process. These criteria urgently need to be modified to allow more working poor to enter into the social assistance system and obtain assistance. Additionally, reforms in the distribution of social assistance resources and in an aspect of the tax system are suggested.","PeriodicalId":45051,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian Public Policy","volume":"20 1","pages":"43 - 59"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84450961","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-07-14DOI: 10.1080/17516234.2021.1954770
Indri Dwi Apriliyanti, Wisnu Prasetya Utomo, E. A. Purwanto
ABSTRACT This paper aims to investigate the related narratives presented in the media and their role in influencing the policy-making process related to the COVID-19 response in Indonesia. This study is based on the content analysis of online news and in-depth interviews with the political advisors of the president and the minister as well as the public health experts invited into the core group of policymakers. The analysis of the narrative policy framework revealed a relationship between the government’s response and the changing tone of media coverage. The study also found that the media has become an influential platform influencing policy agenda-setting.
{"title":"Examining the policy narratives and the role of the media in policy responses to the COVID-19 crisis in Indonesia","authors":"Indri Dwi Apriliyanti, Wisnu Prasetya Utomo, E. A. Purwanto","doi":"10.1080/17516234.2021.1954770","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17516234.2021.1954770","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper aims to investigate the related narratives presented in the media and their role in influencing the policy-making process related to the COVID-19 response in Indonesia. This study is based on the content analysis of online news and in-depth interviews with the political advisors of the president and the minister as well as the public health experts invited into the core group of policymakers. The analysis of the narrative policy framework revealed a relationship between the government’s response and the changing tone of media coverage. The study also found that the media has become an influential platform influencing policy agenda-setting.","PeriodicalId":45051,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian Public Policy","volume":"700 1","pages":"541 - 557"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76848942","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-06-02DOI: 10.1080/17516234.2021.1930682
H. Sajadi, K. Hartley
ABSTRACT Iran’s policy response to the COVID-19 pandemic illustrates how countries with pre-existing challenges manage acute crises. Already economically weakened by international sanctions, Iran’s government was forced to consider short-term tradeoffs between public health and social stability in pandemic response, with imminent unemployment and food insecurity used to justify a policy pivot from mitigation to economic continuity. This article investigates the policy responses of Iran’s government during the crucial first months of the pandemic, using data obtained through interviews structured around SWOT analysis (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats) and interpreted to elicit insights for policy capacity theory and practice. Explanations for Iran’s initially ineffective pandemic response are found to include weakness in economic policy, failure to coordinate public health initiatives, priority of treatment over prevention, insufficient public engagement, and inadequate healthcare facilities. Policy recommendations emerging from the study are comprehensive and coordinated pandemic management efforts, community-based and proactive approaches, targeted economic stimulus, and a clear policy vision for crisis resolution. The discussion integrates policy capacity into explanations and recommendations to illustrate the applied value of the concept in crisis settings characterized by uncertainty and rapid onset.
{"title":"COVID-19 pandemic response in Iran: a dynamic perspective on policy capacity","authors":"H. Sajadi, K. Hartley","doi":"10.1080/17516234.2021.1930682","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17516234.2021.1930682","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Iran’s policy response to the COVID-19 pandemic illustrates how countries with pre-existing challenges manage acute crises. Already economically weakened by international sanctions, Iran’s government was forced to consider short-term tradeoffs between public health and social stability in pandemic response, with imminent unemployment and food insecurity used to justify a policy pivot from mitigation to economic continuity. This article investigates the policy responses of Iran’s government during the crucial first months of the pandemic, using data obtained through interviews structured around SWOT analysis (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats) and interpreted to elicit insights for policy capacity theory and practice. Explanations for Iran’s initially ineffective pandemic response are found to include weakness in economic policy, failure to coordinate public health initiatives, priority of treatment over prevention, insufficient public engagement, and inadequate healthcare facilities. Policy recommendations emerging from the study are comprehensive and coordinated pandemic management efforts, community-based and proactive approaches, targeted economic stimulus, and a clear policy vision for crisis resolution. The discussion integrates policy capacity into explanations and recommendations to illustrate the applied value of the concept in crisis settings characterized by uncertainty and rapid onset.","PeriodicalId":45051,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian Public Policy","volume":"18 1","pages":"228 - 249"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84332712","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-05-10DOI: 10.1080/17516234.2021.1920328
J. Wang, Yixia Cai, Q. Gao
ABSTRACT Using the harmonized Panel Study on Family Dynamics 2006, 2011, and 2013/14 data, this is the first study to examine poverty patterns and investigate the role of social safety nets in alleviating poverty over time in East Asia through a comparative lens, focusing on Taiwan and southeast (SE) China. We compared the extent to which public transfers alleviate poverty utilizing multilevel regression models. Our findings indicate that, firstly, the extent of poverty increased at a faster rate in rural areas and among migrants in SE China compared to residents in Taiwan and urban SE China, suggesting widening regional inequality. Secondly, social safety nets reduced poverty in all locations, and the reductions increased over time to a greater extent in rural areas and among migrants in SE China. However, such reductions remained insufficient to narrow the disparity in regional poverty trends. Thirdly, social safety nets in SE China lagged behind Taiwan’s on participation rates in elder, disability and education assistance and led in low-income assistance. Finally, although welfare policy design is more generous in Taiwan than SE China, our findings based on welfare outcomes indicate that Taiwan’s safety net did not alleviate poverty to a greater extent compared to SE China’s.
{"title":"How effective are social safety net programs in reducing poverty risks? A comparative study of Taiwan and Southeast China","authors":"J. Wang, Yixia Cai, Q. Gao","doi":"10.1080/17516234.2021.1920328","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17516234.2021.1920328","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Using the harmonized Panel Study on Family Dynamics 2006, 2011, and 2013/14 data, this is the first study to examine poverty patterns and investigate the role of social safety nets in alleviating poverty over time in East Asia through a comparative lens, focusing on Taiwan and southeast (SE) China. We compared the extent to which public transfers alleviate poverty utilizing multilevel regression models. Our findings indicate that, firstly, the extent of poverty increased at a faster rate in rural areas and among migrants in SE China compared to residents in Taiwan and urban SE China, suggesting widening regional inequality. Secondly, social safety nets reduced poverty in all locations, and the reductions increased over time to a greater extent in rural areas and among migrants in SE China. However, such reductions remained insufficient to narrow the disparity in regional poverty trends. Thirdly, social safety nets in SE China lagged behind Taiwan’s on participation rates in elder, disability and education assistance and led in low-income assistance. Finally, although welfare policy design is more generous in Taiwan than SE China, our findings based on welfare outcomes indicate that Taiwan’s safety net did not alleviate poverty to a greater extent compared to SE China’s.","PeriodicalId":45051,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian Public Policy","volume":"29 1","pages":"338 - 373"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78836962","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-04-27DOI: 10.1080/17516234.2021.1919390
A. Hou, Christopher Hill, Martin Ince, Fang Yu Lin, E. Chen
ABSTRACT In alignment with the Central Epidemic Center (CECC) measures and Ministry of Education (MOE) policy, Taiwan's universities took actions to ensure campus safely and continued quality of learning. At the same time, quality assurance agencies in Taiwan responded to the new mode of online instruction during the pandemic. The aim of this study is to explore the impact of virus pandemic on higher education and quality assurance. Crisis management approach and policies from central government and national accreditor are analyzed first. The actions and responses from three case universities are subsequently discussed at the end of the paper.
{"title":"A preliminary exploration of crisis management approach on higher education and quality assurance in Taiwan under COVID-19 pandemic: relevance to other contexts?","authors":"A. Hou, Christopher Hill, Martin Ince, Fang Yu Lin, E. Chen","doi":"10.1080/17516234.2021.1919390","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17516234.2021.1919390","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In alignment with the Central Epidemic Center (CECC) measures and Ministry of Education (MOE) policy, Taiwan's universities took actions to ensure campus safely and continued quality of learning. At the same time, quality assurance agencies in Taiwan responded to the new mode of online instruction during the pandemic. The aim of this study is to explore the impact of virus pandemic on higher education and quality assurance. Crisis management approach and policies from central government and national accreditor are analyzed first. The actions and responses from three case universities are subsequently discussed at the end of the paper.","PeriodicalId":45051,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian Public Policy","volume":"94 8 1","pages":"374 - 393"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87672240","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-04-15DOI: 10.1080/17516234.2021.1907653
A. Bali, Michael Howlett, M. Ramesh
ABSTRACT A recent resurgence of interest in policy design has fostered renewed efforts to better understand how specific combinations of policy tools arise and shape policy outcomes. However, to date, these efforts have been stymied by under-theorization of the dif- ferent purposes to which tools are directed in policy mixes and a corresponding failure to acknowledge both these in conceptual work on the subject and in policy practice. Existing frameworks do not adequately recognize the complexity of contemporary policy tool mixes, especially their hybrid and multilayered features, and how procedural and substantial tools operate and interact together in priority and supportive roles. To close this gap, we propose a revised tool framework that distinguishes between first and second-order aspects of instruments used in policy mixes and highlights the particular salience of procedural tools within them.
{"title":"Unpacking policy portfolios: primary and secondary aspects of tool use in policy mixes","authors":"A. Bali, Michael Howlett, M. Ramesh","doi":"10.1080/17516234.2021.1907653","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17516234.2021.1907653","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT A recent resurgence of interest in policy design has fostered renewed efforts to better understand how specific combinations of policy tools arise and shape policy outcomes. However, to date, these efforts have been stymied by under-theorization of the dif- ferent purposes to which tools are directed in policy mixes and a corresponding failure to acknowledge both these in conceptual work on the subject and in policy practice. Existing frameworks do not adequately recognize the complexity of contemporary policy tool mixes, especially their hybrid and multilayered features, and how procedural and substantial tools operate and interact together in priority and supportive roles. To close this gap, we propose a revised tool framework that distinguishes between first and second-order aspects of instruments used in policy mixes and highlights the particular salience of procedural tools within them.","PeriodicalId":45051,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian Public Policy","volume":"14 1","pages":"321 - 337"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74774686","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-04-01DOI: 10.1080/17516234.2021.1903665
G. Prateek, Kaustubh Kumar, Pranamesh Kar, A. Krishnan
ABSTRACT With the nation-wide lockdown announced on 24 March 2020, India came to a standstill. Despite substantial constraints, multiple initiatives by civil society actors in providing the much needed relief and assistance to vulnerable populations during the lockdown have emerged. Considering lockdown as a wicked policy problem, we examine the roles and strategies of two civil society actors in opening up policy spaces. Our focus is on the two most livelihood-intensive sectors of the economy (i.e. agriculture and forestry) during the first two phases of lockdown in India. The first case highlights the use of judiciary to reframe the problem for agriculture in the lockdown policy implementation at the national level. And, the second case shows change in policy implementation at the regional level, again using problem reframing for the well-being of forest-dependent communities using advocacy with policy-makers and sustained social media activities. Building on the two cases, we argue for the crucial role played by the larger civil society actors in bringing the issues of marginalized communities to the policy agenda by opening up diverse policy spaces, and thus contributing to the changes in policy implementation under unprecedented uncertainty during the lockdown in India.
{"title":"Civil society as policy entrepreneur in agriculture and forestry sector amidst COVID-19 lockdown in India","authors":"G. Prateek, Kaustubh Kumar, Pranamesh Kar, A. Krishnan","doi":"10.1080/17516234.2021.1903665","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17516234.2021.1903665","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT With the nation-wide lockdown announced on 24 March 2020, India came to a standstill. Despite substantial constraints, multiple initiatives by civil society actors in providing the much needed relief and assistance to vulnerable populations during the lockdown have emerged. Considering lockdown as a wicked policy problem, we examine the roles and strategies of two civil society actors in opening up policy spaces. Our focus is on the two most livelihood-intensive sectors of the economy (i.e. agriculture and forestry) during the first two phases of lockdown in India. The first case highlights the use of judiciary to reframe the problem for agriculture in the lockdown policy implementation at the national level. And, the second case shows change in policy implementation at the regional level, again using problem reframing for the well-being of forest-dependent communities using advocacy with policy-makers and sustained social media activities. Building on the two cases, we argue for the crucial role played by the larger civil society actors in bringing the issues of marginalized communities to the policy agenda by opening up diverse policy spaces, and thus contributing to the changes in policy implementation under unprecedented uncertainty during the lockdown in India.","PeriodicalId":45051,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian Public Policy","volume":"15 1","pages":"175 - 197"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87670480","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}