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KMID : 1001320120390030117
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Social Welfare Policy
2012 Volume.39 No. 3 p.117 ~ p.149
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Quantitative Welfare Expansion and Systemic Retrenchment: An Evaluation of Welfare Policy in the MB Administration
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Kim Kyo-Seong
Kim Seong-Wook
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Abstract
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The main purpose of this paper is to evaluate welfare efforts administered by the MB Administration. This paper borrowed Pierson’s(1994) retrenchment framework for the analysis, including size and structure of the social expenditure, the programmatic retrenchment, and the systemic retrenchment. According to the findings, there seems to be ① limited increase of social expenditure and ② quantitative expansion and qualitative restructuring of the welfare programs. Finally ③ absolutely systematic retrenchment, policy changes that may increase the prospect for future cutbacks, such as weakening the government’s revenue base(defunding) and undermining the position of pro-welfare state interest groups was also existed. The MB Administration restricts the government’s capability to launch an all-out on attack old and new social risks by conditioning the future direction of welfare changes. Therefore, these constrains could be a huge political liability no matter what party will come into power in the future.
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KEYWORD
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welfare policy, welfare retrenchment, social expenditure, programmatic retrenchment, systemic retrenchment, MB Administration
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