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

Author: Zheng Gongcheng
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Publish Date: 2000-09-01
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. The content includes defining the concept and disciplinary attributes of social security, analyzing the theoretical foundations and major schools of thought as well as their impact on institutional practices, examining the development process, patterns, lessons learned, and reform trends 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 studying social security funds and financing, social security legal frameworks and management, and the operation and monitoring of social security. The book offers a unique perspective, clear threads, distinct viewpoints, rich content, and includes new ideas and information.