Contents

pp iii-iv

List of figures, tables and boxes

pp v-vi

List of contributors

pp vii-viii

List of abbreviations

pp ix-x

Introduction: social policy in an era of competition

pp 1-10

Part One - Global competition as the context for welfare

pp 11-12

one - The competition state thesis in a comparative perspective: the evolution of a thesis

pp 13-32

two - Changing labour markets, changing welfare across the OECD: the move towards a social investment model of welfare as a response to competition

pp 33-52

three - From social regulation of competition to competition as social regulation: transformations in the socioeconomic governance of the European Union

pp 53-68

four - Housing and mortgage markets in the everyday: how globalisation came home

pp 69-82

Part Two - The impact of intensifed competition on local governance

pp 83-84

five - Delivering fuel poverty objectives within the context of globalised energy markets

pp 85-102

six - Exporting healthcare services: a comparative discussion of the UK, Turkey and South Korea

pp 103-116

seven - Global competitiveness and the rescaling of welfare: rescaling downwards while competing outwards?

pp 117-132

Part Three - The reframing of welfare discourses in an era of competition

pp 133-134

eight - Rewriting the contract? Conditionality, welfare reform and the rights and responsibilities of disabled people

pp 135-148

nine - Global ‘vulnerabilities’: new configurations of competition in the era of conditionality?

pp 149-164

ten - Convergence of government ideology in an era of global competition: an empirical analysis using comparative manifesto data

pp 165-186

eleven - Crisis, austerity, competitiveness and growth: new pathologies of the welfare state

pp 187-200

Part Four - Conclusions

pp 201-202

twelve - Conclusion: social policy in an era of competition

pp 203-212

References

pp 213-250

Index

pp 251-259