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Transforming Japan’s Bismarckian Welfare State: Basic Income versus Inclusive Social Insurance

In: Basic Income in Japan

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  • Takashi Suganuma

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This chapter examines the possibility of introducing basic income (BI) in Japan from the historical institutionalism perspective. While exploring the possibility of implementing BI in developed welfare states, it is necessary to evaluate whether the existing welfare systems could become dysfunctional and fail to maintain the welfare of a nation, or have little possibility to be reformed. We need to assess the advantage of BI over the existing system in improving the national welfare not only for low-income people, but also for a majority of the citizens. I also believe that a possibility of reforming and having a sustainable Bismarckian system in Japan exists. In this chapter, I focus on the notion of inclusive social insurance that I proposed, along with my colleagues, in Uzuhashi et al. (2010). The inclusive social insurance is not an alternative to Bismarckian insurance, but is its improved form.

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  • Takashi Suganuma, 2014. "Transforming Japan’s Bismarckian Welfare State: Basic Income versus Inclusive Social Insurance," Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee, in: Yannick Vanderborght & Toru Yamamori (ed.), Basic Income in Japan, chapter 0, pages 35-48, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:etbchp:978-1-137-34808-1_3
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137348081_3
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