Managing the COVID-19 pandemic crisis and changing welfare regimes

ABSTRACT

This article aims at setting out a broader context for the debates and discussions on welfare transformations driven by rapid global challenges and restructuring. Confronted with challenges resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, governments and societies across the globe must rethink and reimagine their social welfare approaches to make them appropriate and effective to manage the risks and crises. The papers in this special issue address three major themes: 1) democratisation and changing welfare regimes / social policy provision; 2) reflections of social service delivery; 3) rethinking state-market-society relationships when managing welfare needs.

KEYWORDS:

• COVID-19 pandemic
• welfare regimes
• East Asia welfare model
• social policy innovation
• sustainable development

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The authors want to thank Lam Man Tsan Chair Professor Research Fund in supporting the present paper for professional editing.

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Notes on contributors

Ka Ho Mok

Ka Ho Mok is Vice President and Director of Institute of Policy Studies, Lingnan University, Hong Kong and he has researched and published  extensively in the field of comparative policy studies with particular reference to contemporary China and East Asia.

Yeun-Wen Ku

Yeun-Wen Ku is Professor of Department of Social Work, National Taiwan University in Taiwan. He has researched and published extensively in social policy with particular reference to social development issues and social policy in Taiwan.

Tauchid Komara Yuda

Tauchid Komara Yuda is Research Associate from Department of Social Development & Welfare, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia. He has researched welfare regime theory in the aspect of history and politics as a framework for analyzing welfare distribution practices over time. His areas of expertise include social policy, citizenship, social development, and welfare politics.