Dr Gyu-Jin Hwang

Room: 146 RC Mills Building, A26 +612 9036 5015

Current Position:
Lecturer

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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 (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

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

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

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

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 (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 (with John Hudson, Jonathan Bradshaw 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, QAed by Professor Edward Peck from HSMC), International Development Department, School of Public Policy, University of Birmingham

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