Social Change, Wellbeing, and Social Policy in East Asia: Insights and Innovations

Call for Papers

Social Change, Wellbeing, and Social Policy in East Asia: Insights and Innovations

Journal: Journal of Asian Public Policy
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Manuscript Submission Deadline: 28 August 2026

The Journal of Asian Public Policy (JAPP) invites submissions for its Special Issue titled "Social Change, Wellbeing, and Social Policy in East Asia: Insights and Innovations."

About the Special Issue

East Asia is undergoing profound demographic and social transformation driven by ultra-low fertility, population ageing, increasing life expectancy, urbanization, digitalization, and widening socioeconomic inequalities. These changes are reshaping labour markets, welfare systems, family structures, and public policy across the region.

This Special Issue seeks to advance theoretical and empirical understanding of how social change influences wellbeing and how governments are adapting social policies to address emerging challenges. It welcomes research that examines welfare reforms, long-term care systems, technological innovations, governance models, and policy responses aimed at improving wellbeing across East Asian societies.

Scope and Topics of Interest

Submissions may address, but are not limited to:

• Ageing, social care regimes, and long-term care policy

• Long-term care insurance design and implementation

• Care poverty, unmet care needs, and wellbeing outcomes

• Family, community, and market-based care systems

• Wellbeing across the life course under demographic and social change

• Mental health, social capital, and healthy ageing

• Loneliness, depression, and wellbeing in urbanizing societies

• AI-assisted care, digital welfare, and technology-enabled social services

• Smart ageing, robotics, and assistive care ecosystems

• Governance, ethics, and inequality in welfare technology

• Welfare state reforms, pension sustainability, and delayed retirement

• Political institutions and public policy reform capacity

• Migration, transnational families, and cross-border care

• Gender, inequality, and intergenerational justice in ageing societies

• Comparative, qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-method policy research

Submission Guidelines

• Abstract Submission Deadline: 27 February 2026 (Maximum 300 words)

• Full Manuscript Submission Deadline: 28 August 2026

• Full manuscripts should not exceed 7,000 words, including abstract, references, tables, figures, footnotes, and appendices.

• Empirical, conceptual, comparative, qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-method studies are welcome.

• Abstracts should be submitted via email, while full manuscripts should be submitted through the Journal of Asian Public Policy online submission system.

• Authors should ensure submissions comply with the journal's Instructions for Authors.

Special Issue Editor

• Yu-Ying Kuo — Department of Political Science, National Taiwan University

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