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EAI Working Paper
Globalization and Welfare State Attitudes in South Korea
Sijeong Lim and Seiki Tanaka
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"Seeking the Welfare State in the Waves of Globalization" |
How does economic globalization influence the attitudes of individuals towards welfare? Much of the focus in the literature has been on identifying the losers under globalization, and exploring whether and to what extent they demand compensation in the form of government redistribution. Drs. Lim and Tanaka argue that economic globalization shapes welfare attitudes in a multi-faceted way. The authors propose four types of citizens based on the self-perceived economic consequences of globalization to themselves and to the nation: the collective winner, the lone winner, the lone loser, and the collective loser. They then examine the case of South Korea, and find a surprisingly low level of support for social spending among lone losers (those who believe globalization is bad for themselves but not for Koreans in general) across all scenarios, while support for welfare is much higher among lone winners (those who believe globalization is not bad for them yet hurts Koreans in general). This working paper is submitted as part of the EAI Fellows Program.
 
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