Social protection under authoritarianism : health politics and policy in China / Xian Huang.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Huang, Xian (Professor of political science), author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Welfare state--China.

Medical policy--China.

Health insurance--China.

Elite (Social sciences)--China.

Social stratification--China.

Authoritarianism--China.

China--Social policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 pages).

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2020.

Summary:

Why would authoritarian leaders expand social welfare provision in the absence of democratization? How do authoritarian leaders design and enforce social welfare expansion in a decentralized multilevel governance setting? This book identifies the trade-off authoritarian leaders face in social welfare provision: effectively balancing coverage and benefits between elites and masses in order to maximize the regime's survival prospects. Using government documents, field interviews, survey data, and government statistics about Chinese social health insurance, this book reveals that Chinese authoritarian leaders attempt to manage the distributive trade-off by a "stratified expansion" strategy, establishing an expansive yet stratified social health insurance system to perpetuate a particularly privileged program for the elites while building an essentially modest health provision for the masses.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 17, 2020).

ISBN:

0-19-007367-5

0-19-007365-9