Full Description
Providing a new cross-national and international narrative on how global competition has reshaped welfare states this book addresses major theoretical debates about the direction of welfare state reform processes across the OECD and beyond, offering empirically rooted analyses of change and new perspectives on the impact of global competition on social policy.
Contents
Introduction: Social policy in an era of competition ‾ Dan Horsfall and John Hudson;
Section I: Global competition as the context for welfare
The competition state thesis in a comparative perspective: The evolution of a thesis ‾ Dan Horsfall;
Changing labour markets, changing welfare across the OECD: The move towards a social investment model of welfare as a response to competition ‾ Naomi Finch, Dan Horsfall and John Hudson;
From social regulation of competition to competition as social regulation: Transformations in the soci?-economic governance of the European Union ‾ Antonios Roumpakis and Theo Papadopoulos;
Housing and mortgage markets in the everyday: How globalisation came home ‾ Stuart Lowe;
Section II: The impact of intensifed competition on local governance;
Exporting healthcare services: A comparative discussion of UK, Turkey and South Korea ‾ Neil Lunt;
Global competitiveness and the rescaling of welfare: Rescaling downwards whilst competing outwards? ‾ Chris Holden and John Hudson;
Section III: The reframing of welfare discourses in an era of competition;
Rewriting the contract? Conditionality, welfare reform and the rights and responsibilities of disabled people ‾ Peter Dwyer;
Global `vulnerabilities': New configurations of competition in the era of conditionality? ‾ Kate Brown;
Convergence of government ideology in an era of global competition: An empirical analysis using comparative manifesto Data ‾ Stefan Kühner;
Crisis, austerity, competitiveness and growth: New pathologies of the welfare state ‾ Kevin Farnsworth and Zoë Irving;
Section IV: Conclusions
Conclusion: Social policy in an era of competition ‾ Dan Horsfall & John Hudson.
