Dr Gyu-Jin Hwang

Room: 115 RC Mills Building, A26 +612 9036 5015

Current Position:
Lecturer in Social Policy

Research interests:
By fusing theoretically informed debate with its practical application to the field of public sector and policy reform, Dr Hwang’s research advocates a closer synthesis of perspectives centred around ideas, interests, and institutions in order to further our understanding of process of policy change. He is particularly interested in the areas of: comparative social policy; comparative development of welfare states; social policy in a development context; comparative analysis of welfare states in East Asia; policymaking processes and policy analysis; politics of social policy; institutional change and policy change; globalization and social policy.

Current Teaching

• SCLG6910 Social Policy: International Perspectives (Semester 1)
• SCPL2603 Development and Welfare in East Asia (Semester 1)
• SCPL2602 Contesting Social Policies (Semester 2)
• SCLG2611 Comparative Sociology of Welfare States (Semester 2)

Publications

Books:
Hwang, Gyu-Jin (ed.) (2011) New Welfare States in East Asia: Global Challenges and Restructuring, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

Hwang, Gyu-Jin (2006) Pathways to State Welfare in Korea: Interests, Ideas, and Institutions, Aldershot: Ashgate

Chapters in Books
Hwang, Gyu-Jin (2011) ‘New Global Challenges and Welfare State Restructuring in East Asia: Continuity and Change’, in Gyu-Jin Hwang (ed.) New Welfare States in East Asia: Global Challenges and Restructuring, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 1-14.

Hwang, Gyu-Jin (2010) ‘Development, Welfare Policy and the Welfare State’, in Robert Denemark (ed.) The International Studies Encyclopedia, Volume II, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 988-1006.

Hwang, Gyu-Jin (2009) ‘Old-age Security in Korea: The Strengthened Role of the State?’, in Tsung-hsi Fu and Rhidian Hughes (eds.) Ageing in East Asia: Challenges and Policies for the Twenty-First Century, London: Routledge, pp. 72-88.

Articles in Refereed Journals
Hwang, Gyu-Jin (2010) ‘The Growth of Welfare Capitalism in East Asia: The Cases of Japan, Korea and Taiwan’, Journal of Public Administration, Vol. 6 (1): 7-30 (in Chinese).

Hwang, Gyu-Jin (2008) ‘Going Separate Ways? the Reform of Health Insurance Funds in Germany, Japan and South Korea’, Policy Studies, Vol. 29 (4): 421-435.

Hudson, John, Hwang, Gyu-Jin and Kühner, Stefan (2008) ‘Between Ideas, Institutions and Interests: Analysing Third Way Welfare Reform Programmes in Germany and the UK’, Journal of Social Policy, Vol. 37 (2): 207-230.

Hwang, Gyu-Jin (2007) ‘The Rules of the Game: The Politics of National Pensions in Korea’, Social Policy and Administration, Vol. 41 (2): 132-147

Hwang, Gyu-Jin (2004) ‘The Mechanisms of Income Distribution: The Case of South Korea’, Social Policy and Society, Vol. 3 (3): 243-252

Conference and Seminar Papers
Hwang, Gyu-Jin (2011) ‘Social Protection in Australia’, paper presented at the Korea Institute of Health and Social Affairs, 25 March 2011, KIHSA, Korea.

Hwang, Gyu-Jin (2010) ‘Welfare State Adaptation in East Asia’, paper presented at the 7th International Conference of East Asian Social Policy Network, Sogang University, Korea, 20-21 August 2010.

Hwang, Gyu-Jin (2009) ‘Beyond Economic Necessity: Social Policy and Economic Development in East Asia’, paper presented at the 6th International Conference of East Asian Social Policy Network, University of Sheffield, UK, 3-4 July 2009.

Hwang, Gyu-Jin (2008b) ‘Welfare States in Transition: The Case of East Asia’, paper presented at the 5th International Conference of East Asian Social Policy Network, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, 3-4 November 2008.

Hwang, Gyu-Jin (2008a) ‘Old-age Security in Korea: The Strengthened Role of the State?’, paper presented at the Social Policy Research Centre (SPRC) Seminar, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 3 June 2008.

Hwang, Gyu-Jin (2007) ‘Going Separate Ways?: The Reform of Health Insurance Funds in Germany, Japan and South Korea’, paper presented at International Symposium on Globalisation and the Future of the East-Asian Welfare Capitalism, National Chung-Cheng University, Chia-Yi, Taiwan, 29-30 May.

Hwang, Gyu-Jin (2005b) ‘Explaining Policy Change: The Cases of Health Care Reform in Germany, Japan and South Korea’, paper presented at the Conference of the Network for European Social Policy Analysis (ESPAnet), 22-24 September 2005, University of Fribourg, Switzerland

Hwang, Gyu-Jin (2005a) ‘The Rules of the Game: the Politics of National Pensions in Korea’, paper presented at the East Asian Social Policy Research Network Conference (Pressure, Policy-making and Policy Outcome: Understanding East Asian Welfare Reforms), 30 June-2 July 2005, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

Hwang, Gyu-Jin (2003c) ‘Path Dependency and the Role of Ideas in Shaping Social Policy’, paper contributed at the first Annual Conference of the Network for European Social Policy Analysis (ESPAnet), Changing European Societies: the Role for Social Policy, 13-15 November 2003, Copenhagen, Denmark

Hwang, Gyu-Jin (2003b) ‘An Idea-centric Approach to the Analysis of Social Policy: the Case of South Korea from 1961 to 1979’, paper presented at the Policy and Politics Conference (Policy and Politics in a Globalising World), 24-26 July 2003, Bristol, UK

Hwang, Gyu-Jin (2003a) ‘When Ideas become Influential: a path
dependent pattern of social policy change in Korea’, paper presented at the [[i|Annual Conference of Social Policy Association]], 15-17 July 2003, University of Teesside, UK

Hudson, John, Hwang, Gyu-Jin and Kühner, Stefan (2005) The Comparative Analysis of Welfare State Modernisation: The Cases of Germany, South Korea and the United Kingdom, paper presented at the Seoul Association for Public Administration (SAPA)’s International Conference on ‘Culture and International Competitiveness’, 21-22 July 2005, University of Birmingham, UK (published in Proceeding of the International Conference of Seoul Association for Public Administration (SAPA), 2005, 7: 255-279).

Hudson, John, Hwang, Gyu-Jin and Kühner, Stefan (2004) ‘Comparing Welfare State Modernisation in Germany, Korea, and the United Kingdom: The Institutional Shaping of Third Way Reform Trajectories’, paper presented at the International and Comparative Politics Stream of the Australasian Political Studies Association Conference, 29 September-1 October 2004, University of Adelaide, Australia.

Miscellaneous
Hwang, Gyu-Jin (2011) ‘Book Review: Hwasook Nam – Building Ships, Building a Nation’, Asian Studies Review, Vol. 35 (1): 142-143.

Hudson, John, Hwang, Gyu-Jin and Yamashita, Junko (2010) ‘Conference Report: East Asian Social Policy Network 6th International Conference, Policy World, Winter/Spring, p.19.

Hwang, Gyu-Jin (2009) ‘Conference Report: East Asian Social Policy Network 5th International Conference’, Policy World, Summer p.20.

Hwang, Gyu-Jin (2006) South Korea: Redistribution or Growth?, Policy World, Newsletter of the Social Policy Association, Autumn, 2006.

Hwang, Gyu-Jin (with John Hudson and Stefan Kühner) (2006) Comparative Social Policy (commissioned e-learning text), Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of York

Hwang, Gyu-Jin (2005) Making Policy, (Distance Learning Text), International Development Department, School of Public Policy, University of Birmingham