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Productivist Welfare Capitalism: Social Policy in East Asia Ian Holliday City University of Hong Kong The article engages with the literature on the ‘East Asian welfare model’ by using Esping-Andersen’s ‘worlds of welfare capitalism’ approach to analyze social policy in the region. It describes the main features of a productivist world of welfare capitalism that stands alongside Esping-Andersen’s conservative, liberal and social democratic worlds. It then shows that Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan are all part of this world, though they divide into sub-groups within it. To account for productivist welfare capitalism in East Asia, the article focuses particularly on bureaucratic politics at the unit level, and on a range of key shaping factors at the system level. It closes by considering the implications of East Asian experience for comparative social policy analysis. In the decade since Esping-Andersen (1990) published The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism, one strand of comparative analysis has focused on the conservative- liberal-social democratic typology of welfare state regimes constructed in that book. In the process, some authors have noted that welfare arrangements in capitalist East Asia – usually said to consist of Japan plus the four little ‘tigers’ or ‘dragons’ of Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan (Vogel, 1991) – cannot readily be fitted into this tripartite framework. Indeed, in the course of the 1990s some- thing of an academic consensus emerged in support of the contention that ‘the East Asian experience is distinctive, differing decisively from the Euro-American models current in social policy discourse’ (Kwon, 1998a: 27). There is, however, no agreement about the precise nature of East Asian excep- tionalism. Some argue for a regional cluster, floating such concepts as ‘oikonomic welfare states’ (Jones, 1990), ‘Confucian welfare states’ (Jones, 1993), ‘Japan-focused East Asian welfare regimes’ (Goodman and Peng, 199