新兴福利国家:概念、研究进展及对中国的启示

Emerging Welfare States:Concepts,Research Progress and Implications for China

进入21世纪以来,形成并发展于新兴工业化国家/地区的福利体制成为比较政治研究和比较社会政策研究的重要议题,“新兴福利国家”概念也得以建构。在“新兴福利国家”概念下,学者们循着功能主义、权力资源理论、新制度主义等理论视角,开始突破既有福利国家研究的话语体系,结合新兴工业化国家/地区社会福利政策实践的多种形式,力图建构起适合于分析新兴工业化国家/地区福利实践的研究框架,从而解释这些国家/地区福利体制的类型及其发展的动力机制。对海外关于新兴福利国家研究情况的概要性梳理,或有助于倡导中国福利体制议题的研究,推动中国与其他发展中国家在福利发展领域的对话。这不仅有利于讲好增进人民福祉的中国故事,而且有助于构建福利发展的中国话语权。

With the advent of the 21st century,the welfare regimes that took shape and developed in newly industrialized countries/regions have become an important topic in comparative politics and the comparative social policy,giving rise to the concept of“emerging welfare states.”Under the influence of this concept,scholars are following the theoretical approaches of functionalism,power resource theory,neo-institutionalism,etc.In so doing,they have begun to break down the discourse system of existing welfare state research,integrating the many forms of social welfare policy practice in these countries/regions in an endeavor to establish a research framework suited to analyzing their practice with a view to explaining these countries/regions’different types of welfare regimes and dynamic development mechanisms.A brief review of overseas research on emerging welfare states may help to encourage research on the topic of China’s welfare regime and promote dialogue between China and other developing countries in the field of welfare development.This is not only conducive to telling a Chinese story that enhances the well-being of the people,but also helps to build Chinese discourse power in welfare development.