Explaining Korean Welfare State Development with New Empirical Data and Methods

Asian Social Work and Policy Review

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 67-85

  Ahn, Sang Hoon ^a   Lee, Sophia Seung yoon ^b  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b Ewha Womans University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Comparative Welfare State Dataset; East Asian welfare states; Fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis; Korean welfare state

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861845697     PISSN: 17531403     EISSN: 17531411     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1753-1411.2012.00063.x     Document Type: Article

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