When Solidarity Works

List of figures; List of tables; Preface; Abbreviations; Part I: 1. Introduction; 2. Revisiting the theories of welfare states in developing countries; 3. Theoretical discussion: the structures of associational networks and labor politics; Part II: 4. The origin of top-down solidarity in South Korea; 5. Embeddedness, cohesiveness, and the politics of social policy expansion in South Korea: universal vs. selective reforms; 6. The survival and decline of embeddedness under retrenchment drives: the politics of retrenchment under market reforms: Part III: 7. Comparative case studies I: market-orientated reforms of welfare states and union responses in Argentina and Brazil; 8. Comparative case studies II: market-orientated reforms of welfare states and union responses in South Korea and Taiwan; 9. Comparative case studies III: associational networks and welfare states in Argentina, Brazil, South Korea and Taiwan; 10. Conclusion; Appendix A. Interviewee profiles; Appendix B. Measurement of associational networks; Appendix C. Game theoretical models; Appendix D. Supplementary analyses: the structure of South Korean civic networks in the 2000s; Appendix E. Generalization: findings from the cross-national quantitative analyses; Bibliography; Index.