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

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

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 t...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.)
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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

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