Dan Horsfall & John Hudson 
Social Policy in an Era of Competition [EPUB ebook] 
From Global to Local Perspectives

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 sociο-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.

John Hudson is Professor of Social Policy at the University of York and Co-Director of the Centre for Research in Comparative and Global Social Policy (CRCG). His research and teaching spans three themes: The policy process; Comparative social policy analysis; and Government in the “information age”.