ABSTRACT The 2008 economic crisis and its aftermath have created opportunities for institutional actors to formulate and implement neoliberal reforms and policies. In this article, we analyse a recent ordoliberal policy measure of the Finnish government—namely, the Competitiveness Pact—and related legislative measures. Ordoliberalism, a variant of neoliberalism, entails a strong state which aims to protect the economy from interfering influences. The government’s main objective was to increase the competitiveness of the Finnish economy by lowering labour costs. However, the competitiveness measures caused a conflict between the government and labour market parties. As the measures mainly targeted the feminized public sector, they had clear gendered impacts that became central to the struggle between the government and trade unions. We utilize critical discourse analysis as a methodology to study affective institutional work and ordoliberal governance in parliamentary discussions on these measures. Our results show that gender equality was marginalized and considered a threatening issue for the ordoliberal regime. The Pact was also the government’s attempt to make institutional changes to the norms and relations of the corporatist system, as the government assumed the leading role by setting demands for the labour market parties to fulfil.

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情感上的制度工作和青少年治理：关于芬兰竞争力条约的议会辩论中的性别平等

摘要2008年的经济危机及其后果为机构参与者制定和实施新自由主义的改革和政策创造了机会。在本文中，我们分析了芬兰政府最近的一项公民政策措施，即《竞争协议》以及相关的立法措施。Ordoliberalism是新自由主义的一种变体，它包含一个强大的国家，旨在保护经济免受干扰影响。政府的主要目标是通过降低劳动力成本来提高芬兰经济的竞争力。但是，竞争性措施导致了政府与劳动力市场各方之间的冲突。由于这些措施主要针对女性化的公共部门，因此它们具有明显的性别影响，成为政府与工会之间斗争的核心。我们将批判性话语分析作为一种方法，在有关这些措施的议会讨论中研究情感性机构工作和青少年治理。我们的研究结果表明，性别平等被边缘化，被认为是世袭政权面临的威胁性问题。该契约也是政府试图对社团主义制度的规范和关系进行制度性改变的尝试，因为政府通过设定对劳动力市场各方的要求来承担领导角色。