Social Policy in an Era of Competition: From Global to Local Perspectives

doi:10.46692/9781447326298

Social Policy in an Era of Competition

From Global to Local Perspectives

Providing a new cross-national and international narrative on how global competition has reshaped welfare states, this book captures the complexity of social policy reform process that have taken place over the past twenty-five years.

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Social Policy in an Era of Competition

From Global to Local Perspectives

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Frontmatter
pp i-ii

Contents
pp iii-iv

List of figures, tables and boxes
pp v-vi

List of contributors
pp vii-viii

List of abbreviations
pp ix-x

Introduction: social policy in an era of competition
pp 1-10

Part One - Global competition as the context for welfare
pp 11-12

one - The competition state thesis in a comparative perspective: the evolution of a thesis
pp 13-32

two - Changing labour markets, changing welfare across the OECD: the move towards a social investment model of welfare as a response to competition
pp 33-52

three - From social regulation of competition to competition as social regulation: transformations in the socioeconomic governance of the European Union
pp 53-68

four - Housing and mortgage markets in the everyday: how globalisation came home
pp 69-82

Part Two - The impact of intensifed competition on local governance
pp 83-84

five - Delivering fuel poverty objectives within the context of globalised energy markets
pp 85-102

six - Exporting healthcare services: a comparative discussion of the UK, Turkey and South Korea
pp 103-116

seven - Global competitiveness and the rescaling of welfare: rescaling downwards while competing outwards?
pp 117-132

Part Three - The reframing of welfare discourses in an era of competition
pp 133-134

eight - Rewriting the contract? Conditionality, welfare reform and the rights and responsibilities of disabled people
pp 135-148

nine - Global ‘vulnerabilities’: new configurations of competition in the era of conditionality?
pp 149-164

ten - Convergence of government ideology in an era of global competition: an empirical analysis using comparative manifesto data
pp 165-186

eleven - Crisis, austerity, competitiveness and growth: new pathologies of the welfare state
pp 187-200

Part Four - Conclusions
pp 201-202

twelve - Conclusion: social policy in an era of competition
pp 203-212

References
pp 213-250

Index
pp 251-259

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