경제위기 이후 한국과 브라질의 사회복지 개혁 분석 = An analysis of Welfare reform of South Korea and Brazil after the Economic crisis

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

As developing countries on behalf of the East Asia and Latin America, S. Korea and Brazil experienced an acute economic crisis in the 1980s and 1990s. Both of them conducted some economic and social reforms towards pursuing the more economic liberalism, meanwhile, expanded social rights in order to overcome the crisis. This study analyzed the welfare reforms of S. Korea and Brazil using the integrative approach-system, institution and actors- of institutional change. It could complement the limitations of historical institutionalism relying on the exogenous variable of institutional change. On the surface Brazil and South Korea had undergone similar reforms to cope with economic crises but the pattern is quite different. The welfare reform of S. Korea was a parametric because of continued export oriented growth strategy, the institutional legacies of productive welfare regime and the weak pro-welfare coalition. On the other hand, Brazil had a paradigm reform through the change of growth strategy and an strong pro-welfare coalition in spite of constraints of institutional legacies of protective welfare regime. In summary, growth strategy is a significant impact on the formation and the change of welfare regime of developing countries such as S. Korea and Brazil. Actors power is, also, an import factor in reducing institutional constraints.