Social Security Studies: Concepts, Systems, Practices, and Critical Reflections

Author: Zheng Gongcheng
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Features: This book is a significant theoretical achievement from the author's 15 years of research on social security issues. It systematically and rationally summarizes and reflects on the concepts, systems, and practices of social security from a professional perspective. Its content includes defining the concept and disciplinary attributes of social security, analyzing the theoretical foundations and major schools of thought in social security and their impact on institutional practices, examining the development process, patterns, lessons learned, and reform dynamics of social security systems, exploring the macro-level relationships between social security and society, economy, politics, and human development, comparing the functional positioning of social security and the institutional arrangements of social security systems in relevant countries, as well as researching social security funds and financing, social security legislation and management, and the operation and monitoring of social security. The book offers a unique perspective, clear threads, distinct viewpoints, rich content, and is not short of new ideas and information.