Develops a spirited defence of welfare regimes analysis through a constructive critique of recent comparative scholarship and an empirical analysis of the politics of wellbeing in Vietnam
Extends the analysis of welfare regimes from Northeast Asia, where the politics of social policy has advanced in recent years, to Southeast Asia
Theorizes the development of welfare institutions in Vietnam from a political economy perspective.

Provides a cutting-edge comparative political economy analysis of welfare and inequality across ten East Asian countries. Elaborates a constructive critique of theoretical and policy literature on welfare and inequality and theoretical methods for locating changes in welfare policy, institutions, and inequality at the intersection of local, national and global processes and relations. Sets forth a research agenda that brings welfare and inequality toward the center of comparative political economy by construing countries as dynamic, globally embedded social orders defined and animated by distinctive social relational and institutional features.

Autorentext
Jonathan D. London is Senior University Lecturer of Global Political Economy Asia at Leiden University in The Netherlands. His recent publications include Politics in Contemporary Vietnam (Palgrave) and journal articles in The Journal of Contemporary Asia , Social Science and Medicine , and The Annual Review of Political Science. He holds a PhD in sociology from the University of Wisconsin.

Inhalt
Part I.- Chapter 1. Great Transformations.- Chapter 2. Welfare, Inequality, and Marketization.- Chapter 3. Welfare, Growth, and Governance.- Chapter 4. Marketization, Protection, and Inclusive Growth: A New Synthesis.- Chapter 5. Rethinking Welfare Regimes.- Part II.- Chapter 6. Welfare, Inequality, and Varieties of Social Order.- Chapter 7. Developmental Welfare States?: Korea and Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore.- Chapter 8. Welfare, Clientelism, and Inequality.- Chapter 9. Welfare and Inequality in Market Leninism.- Chapter 10. 10. Afterword: Welfare and Inequality in Marketizing East Asia.