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Bringing together outstanding researchers, this book is the first to examine the theory and practice of policy analysis in South Korea. Drawing on case studies, it explores the development of policy analysis and procedures for decision making at different levels of government.

This book analyses reforms to retirement policies in Japan and South Korea, especially in the context of rapid population ageing. A defining feature of the labour markets and workplaces in these two nations, and the lives of workers and families, is involuntary retirement at relatively young ages. The book explains past developments and recent reforms of retirement policies both in the two countries, as well as in a cross-national comparative manner. At the core of the book is an examination of the social, economic and political conflicts around retirement, such as between younger and older w

For historical institutionalist scholarship,
partisanship's impact on public policy is mediated by institutions;
however there is disagreement about whether globalization has altered
this nexus. In view of the importance of labour market policy for the
equity and efficiency objectives of left– and right–wing
parties, it is particularly significant as a domain for testing
partisanship's continuing relevance. This article examines the link
between partisanship and policy outcomes, using the case of labour
market policy in Ontario during the 1990s as its point of reference. It
concludes that, in relation to three selected aspects of this field,
institutions affected left– and right–wing partisan agendas
quite differently, but that globalization has not transformed this
relationship in recent years. Because of inter–sectoral
institutional variations, this conclusion cannot be extended to other
policy domains without further research.