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This chapter summarizes the existing debates on the development and diversity of the welfare states and finds their limits in explaining the East Asian welfare states, as this requires a different theoretical frame. While existing studies use formal variables, such as industrialization, power resource mobilization, and state intervention, they dismiss the role of culture and norms. To make up for these shortcomings, this chapter intends to suggest a theoretical framework to analyze how cultural factors, especially family norms or familialism, can determine characteristics of welfare institutions and influence the development trajectories of the welfare states.
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Wang, H.S. (2017). Welfare Politics: Building Welfare Institutions. In: Familial Foundations of the Welfare State. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58712-7_2
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