scholarly journals The Changing Meanings of ‘Responsible University’. From a Nordic-Keynesian Welfare State to a Schumpeterian Competition State

2019 ◽  
pp. 33-60
Author(s):  
Mikko Kohvakka ◽  
Arto Nevala ◽  
Hanna Nori
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Competition State ◽  
Schumpeterian Competition

Conclusion: social policy in an era of competition

2017 ◽  
pp. 203-212
Author(s):  
Dan Horsfall ◽  
John Hudson
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Welfare States ◽  
Future Research ◽  
The Core ◽  
Competition State ◽  
State Welfare ◽  
Policy Analysts

This concluding chapter highlights key arguments from across the book in order to set out an integrated agenda for future research. Theoretically rooted analyses must be at the core of such an agenda. The inter-pollination/cross-fertilisation of ideas from many disciplines is important in developing an understanding of the complex and multi-faceted ways in which competition is influencing welfare states. However, while theory is central to this agenda, it must also be rooted in detailed empirical analysis. In looking to transcend the competition state/welfare state dichotomy, this interplay between theory and evidence is key, and where theoretically rooted social policy analysts can add particular value to current debates.

scholarly journals Succes eller fiasko? – Et komparativt blik på den danske konkurrencestat

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 51-75
Author(s):  
Mikkel Dehlholm ◽  
Ove K. Pedersen
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Employment Rate ◽  
Economic Stability ◽  
Market Policy ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
Competition State ◽  
State Employment

Artiklen belyser den danske konkurrencestat sammenlignet med andre vestlige lande. I analysen fokuseres på fire dimensioner: 2. Ulighed, fattigdom og skat, 2. Social mobilitet, 3. Økonomisk vækst, konkurrenceevne og økonomisk holdbarhed, og 4. Beskæftigelse, arbejdsløshed og arbejdsmarkedspolitik. Sideløbende analyseres sammenhænge mellem dimensionerne, eksempelvis ligheds betydning for social mobilitet, vækst mv. På baggrund af den komparative analyse argumenterer vi for, at Danmark overordnet set kan karakteriseres som en universalistisk konkurrencestat med en lav grad af ulighed (om end den er steget) og fattigdom kombineret med en konkurrencedygtig og holdbar økonomi, der fastholder den traditionelle velfærdsstats fokus på social sikring og lige adgang til velfærdsservice, om end reformer af dagpenge og kontanthjælp har mindsket graden af sikring i forbindelse med arbejdsløshed. Som den største udfordring for den danske konkurrencestat peger vi på, at Danmark på trods af et stærkt fokus på området stadig er udfordret af, at erhvervsdeltagelsen blandt 25-54 årige mænd er væsentligt lavere, end den var før 1973 og end i de lande, der klarer sig bedst på dette parameter (Schweiz, Japan, Island). På denne baggrund diskuteres, hvad der skal til for at øge beskæftigelsesfrekvensen. ENGELSK ABSTRACT Mikkel Dehlholm and Ove K. Pedersen: Success or failure: a comparative look at the Danish competition state This article analyzes the Danish competition state in comparison with other western states on four dimensions: 1) inequality, poverty and tax, 2) social mobility, 3) economic growth, competitiveness and economic stability and 4) employment, unemployment and labor market policy. It also analyzes relations between these dimensions. Based on the analysis, we argue that Denmark can be characterized as a universalistic competition state. We point out that the greatest challenge for the Danish competition state is the low employment rate for men between the ages of 25-54, which is lower than it was in 1973 and also lower than other countries (such as Switzerland, Japan, Iceland). We discuss ways of increasing this employment . Keywords: Competition state, Welfare state, employment, unemployment, inequality, social mobility.

Immigration

2018 ◽  
pp. 204-237
Author(s):  
Thomas Faist
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Welfare States ◽  
Economic Openness ◽  
Cultural Rights ◽  
Threat Perceptions ◽  
Liberal Paradox ◽  
Competition State ◽  
Cultural Boundaries ◽  
Capital Transfer

In immigration states, politics around migration and inequalities runs along two major lines: economic and cultural divisions. Economic divisions refer to market liberalization and the de-commodification of labour as part of the welfare paradox: economic openness towards capital transfer is in tension with political closure towards migrants. It is the competition state vs. the welfare state. In the cultural realm, the contention relates to a clash between cultural rights based on the rights revolution and the myth of national-cultural homogeneity. It finds expression in the liberal paradox: the extension of human rights to migrants who reside in welfare states vs. the efforts to control borders and cultural boundaries. Threat perceptions often lead to a securitization of migration, a juxtaposition of the multicultural state and the democratic-national state. Economic divisions along class lines structure the politicization of cultural heterogeneities.

Accessibility of General Adult Education An Analysis of the Restructuring of Adult Education Governance in Denmark

2021 ◽  
pp. 0741713621Q9962
Author(s):  
Annette Rasmussen ◽  
Elisabeth Lauridsen Lolle
Keyword(s):  
Adult Education ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Market Orientation ◽  
State Policies ◽  
Structural Reforms ◽  
Policy Documents ◽  
Education Governance ◽  
Competition State ◽  
Historical Outline ◽  
Different Types

The purpose of this paper is to examine how adult education institutions have developed in close connection with the Danish welfare state and how structural reforms since the 1990s have changed the institutional structure and impacted accessibility. This involves analyses of the main functions linked to the different types of adult education institutions (VUCs) in Denmark and their development in relation to welfare state policies in the first instance and to globalization and competition state policies in the second. Thus, the paper provides a historical outline of the development of adult education institutions in two main areas, a vocational and a general, followed by an analysis of selected policy documents on structural reforms. Focusing on the reforms of 2000, 2007, and 2018, the analysis identifies external and internal limitations to accessing general adult education. In conclusion, the market orientation of the VUC entails limitations to both external and internal accessibility.

Neo-liberalism as an ideology, an elite project and its impact on austerity

2020 ◽  
pp. 13-26
Author(s):  
Nigel Malin
Keyword(s):  
Economic Evaluation ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
The State ◽  
Social Rights ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
Audit Culture ◽  
Competition State ◽  
Social Agenda ◽  
The Social

This chapter discusses the relevance of neo-liberalism as both an ideology and as a pragmatic approach, defined as a re-making of the state, where the state is not rolled back as such but is re-shaped, re-configured to better serve the demands of capital. Neo-liberalism represents an attempt to replace political judgement with economic evaluation, including, but not exclusively, the evaluations offered by markets. Writers on this subject such as Davies, Gough, Garrett, Peck, Mirowski and Shaxson are referred to where they address globalisation and audit culture, the logic of markets and economic evaluation. It was believed that the economic pressures generated by neo-liberal globalisation would inexorably lead to welfare state entrenchment or its dissolution and replacement by a lean ‘competition’ state. Yet the global rediscovery of poverty and the challenges to territorially-based conceptions of social rights posed by the increasing flow of migrants have put social policy issues on the social agenda.

scholarly journals Finland: Media welfare state in the digital era?

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marko Ala-Fossi
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Universal Access ◽  
Welfare States ◽  
Nordic Countries ◽  
State Model ◽  
Communication Policy ◽  
Competition State ◽  
Economic Support ◽  
Media Systems

The concept of media welfare state is a combination of the democratic corporatist media system and social democratic welfare state model, describing the distinctiveness of the Nordic countries and their media systems with four basic principles. Media welfare state is based on communication services understood as public goods, freedom from editorial interference, cultural policy and economic support for media pluralism as well as preference for consensual solutions involving cooperation between main stakeholders. However, identifying a joint media welfare state model in recent media and communication policy decisions made in Nordic countries on developing communication infrastructures, media delivery and universal access turns out to be difficult. During the last three decades, none of the four largest Nordic countries has strictly followed all the four principles. In most cases, Finland has ended up with different solutions than its Nordic neighbours and sometimes also in contradiction with the Media Welfare State model. There is evidence that the Nordic media markets have been losing their distinguishability over the years. But the main reason why the present-day Nordic countries do not fit into media welfare state model is that they no longer are welfare states ‐ not at least in the same fashion as they used to be. In Finland, this transition from the welfare state to the competition state has been more rapid and extensive than elsewhere in the Nordic region, partly because of its geopolitical position. The Finnish economy has also been exceptionally dependent on a single mobile technology corporation.

scholarly journals Folkeskolen og politisk kultur

Politik ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ove Kaj Pedersen
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Economic Competition ◽  
The Public ◽  
Competition State ◽  
National Competitiveness ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Public Primary School ◽  
The Welfare State

In 2006, the description in the law of the aim of the Danish Public Primary School, the People’s School, was changed. This change sheds light on the view of the individual in the Competition State. The article demonstrates how this view is different from the view of the individual in the Welfare State. Now the public primary school has as its task to educate the students to participate in the development of the national competitiveness of Danish society in the global economic competition. 

Decommodification and the Workfare State

2003 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 303-316 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Holden
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
New Labour ◽  
Labour Market Policies ◽  
Welfare Services ◽  
Competition State ◽  
State Welfare ◽  
The Welfare State

Two related concepts have been used to understand the welfare state – ‘decommodification’ and the ‘workfare’ or the ‘competition’ state, as it relates to processes of ‘recommodification’. I show how these related literatures may be integrated in order to enhance our understanding of current labour market policies. Applying these concepts to an analysis of the ideas and policies of New Labour leads to the conclusion that state welfare services are being reconfigured to serve more effectively the needs of the market, through a process of ‘administrative recommodification’.

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