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Social Welfare Policy of Parkkeunhye Government and the Swedish Welfare Model under Changes

  • Journal of the Scandinavian Society of Korea
  • Abbr : JSSK
  • 2014, (15), pp.103-142
  • Publisher : The Scandinavian Society of Korea
  • Research Area : Social Science > Area Studies > North Europe(Scandinavian)

Eunsun Joo 1

1경기대학교

Candidate

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study is to reveal the characteristics of Parkkeunhye government’s welfare policy more clearly by comparing welfare policy contents and discourses of Park’s government with those of the Swedish model. In early stage, of Park’s welfare policy plan it is proposed the social security package along life course. And welfare’s contribution to the economy as the social investment is emphasized. These characteristics of welfare discourse had recalled the Swedish model. Park’s welfare policy seemed to have more common things with the Swedish welfare under changes since 1990’s in emphasizing workfare and free choice. As presenting concrete contents of welfare policies, however, park’s welfare policy came to have no common things with the Swedish welfare even considering recent changes. For example, regarding Swedish social services, public still do the most important roles and the private services and insurances have not yet took the spaces even after the retrenchment of the state’s social service provision. To see the differences in universalism of coverage, the adequacy, the quality of social security and the accountabilities of the public in social security and social services, gap between the recent Swedish welfare and Park’s welfare initiatives are enormous. In addition, welfare politics in Park’s government has pursued division of interests groups rather than social integration, and tried to exclude labor (unions). These differences in politics on welfare between two model are expected to produce gaps between two nation’s welfare policy directions continuously.

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