Social policy in an era of global competition : from global to local perspectives / edited by Dan Horsfall and John Hudson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Horsfall, Daniel, editor.

Hudson, John, 1972- editor.

Series:

Policy Press scholarship online.

Policy Press scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social policy.

Globalization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 259 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Policy Press, 2017.

Summary:

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.

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

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Apr 2022).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4473-2630-X

1-4473-2632-6

OCLC:

1000394205