Social Policy in an Era of Competition : : From Global to Local Perspectives / / ed. by Dan Horsfall, John Hudson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol UP/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• MitwirkendeR: Brown, Kate,; Dwyer, Peter,; Farnsworth, Kevin,; Finch, Naomi,; Holden, Chris,; Horsfall, Dan,; Hudson, John,; Irving, Zoë,; Kühner, Stefan,; Lowe, Stuart,; Lunt, Neil,; Papadopoulos, Theo,; Roumpakis, Antonios,; Snell, Carolyn,
• HerausgeberIn: Horsfall, Dan,; Hudson, John,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)

Welfare states globally have been subjected to reform agendas that have stressed economic competitiveness but how has global competition reshaped welfare states in practice? Providing a new cross-national and international narrative this book captures the complexity of social policy reform process that have taken place over the past 25 years. Drawing on data relating to multiple countries the authors examine global, cross-national and local cases in order to shed light on the impact of international forces on social policy. The 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.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Contents -- List of figures, tables and boxes -- List of contributors -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction: social policy in an era of competition -- Global competition as the context for welfare -- The competition state thesis in a comparative perspective: the evolution of a thesis -- Changing labour markets, changing welfare across the OECD: the move towards a social investment model of welfare as a response to competition -- From social regulation of competition to competition as social regulation: transformations in the socioeconomic governance of the European Union -- Housing and mortgage markets in the everyday: how globalisation came home -- The impact of intensifed competition on local governance -- Delivering fuel poverty objectives within the context of globalised energy markets -- Exporting healthcare services: a comparative discussion of the UK, Turkey and South Korea -- Global competitiveness and the rescaling of welfare: rescaling downwards while competing outwards? -- The reframing of welfare discourses in an era of competition -- Rewriting the contract? Conditionality, welfare reform and the rights and responsibilities of disabled people -- Global ‘vulnerabilities’: new configurations of competition in the era of conditionality? -- Convergence of government ideology in an era of global competition: an empirical analysis using comparative manifesto data -- Crisis, austerity, competitiveness and growth: new pathologies of the welfare state -- Conclusions -- Conclusion: social policy in an era of competition -- References -- Index