- Docente: Rosa Mulè
- Crediti formativi: 8
- SSD: SPS/04
- Lingua di insegnamento: Inglese
- Modalità didattica: Convenzionale - Lezioni in presenza
- Campus: Forli
- Corso: Laurea Magistrale in Scienze internazionali e diplomatiche (cod. 8783)
Conoscenze e abilità da conseguire
The course has three objectives: a broader theoretical knowledge of the political and economic processes that explain the origins of welfare states; analysis of similarities and differences in the consolidation of contemporary welfare states; understanding of the main political and economic theories applied to the crisis and restructuring of the welfare state. At the end of the course students will be able to interpret the origins, the consolidation and the restructuring of welfare states; students will possess analytical and critical skills to evaluate strengths and weaknesses of welfare state political economy models.
Contenuti
Political economy of welfare systems
2014-2015
Textbooks
Castles, F. and C. Pierson, The welfare state reader, Polity Press, 2000 (and some chapters in 2nd edition 2006).
Castles, F., Leibfried, S., Lewis, J., Obinger,H., Pierson,C. (eds). The Oxford Handbook of the welfare state, Oxford University Press, 2010.
1. Philosophical foundations
Hayek, F.A. von, The meaning of the welfare state, in Reader, 2000 (and 2006).
Nozick, R. Anarchy, State and Utopia, Oxford, Blackwell, 1974, Chps. 2-3.
Rawls, J. A Theory of Justice: Revised Edition, Harvard University Press, 1999, chp 2.
Sen, A. Equality of What? in Sen, A. Choice, welfare and measurement, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1982.
2. The origins of the welfare state
Briggs, A. The Welfare State in Historical Perspective, in Reader, 2006.
Kuhnle, S. and Sander, A. The emergence of the western welfare state, in Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State, Oxford University Press, 2010, chp 5.
Nullmeier, F. and Kaufmann, F-X, Post-war welfare state development, OHWS, chp 6.
3. Comparing welfare states I
Sartori, G. (1994) Compare Why and How. Comparing, miscomparing and the comparative method, in Dogan,M. K e Kazancigil, A. (eds.) Comparing nations: concepts, strategies and substance, Oxford, Basil Blackwell.
Arts W.A. and Gelissen, J. Models of the Welfare State, in OHWS, chp 39.
Esping-Andersen, G. Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism, in Reader.
4. Comparing welfare states II
Kautto, M. The Nordic countries, in OHWS, chp 40
Palier, B. Continental western Europe, OHWS, chp 41
Ferrera, M. The South European Countries, OHWS, chp 42
Castles, F. The English Speaking Countries, OHWS, chp 43
5. REVISION AND MID-TERM EXAM
WEEKS 6-10: TOPICS IN WELFARE STATE
6. INPUTS AND ACTORS
Orloff, A.S. Gender, in OHWS, chp 17.
Castles, S. and Schierup, C-U, Migration and Etnic minorities, OHWS, chp. 19.
7. Welfare state in Europe
Falkner, G. European Union, in OHWS, chp.20.
Teague, P. Deliberative Governance and EU social policy, in Reader 2006.
Whyman, P.B., Braimbridge, M., Mullen, A. (2012)The political economy of the European social model, Routledge.
Scharpf, Fritz. Negative Integration: States and the Loss of Boundary Control. In Reader 2000.
8-9. Political challenges to the welfare state
8) Pierson, P.The New Politics of the Welfare State, in Reader, 2000
Clayton e Pontusson, Welfare State Retrenchment Revisited, in Reader, 2000.
9) Häuserman, S. (2010), The Politics of Welfare State Reform in Continental Europe, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
Steeck, W., and Thelen, K, (eds.) (2005) Beyond Continuity. Institutional Change in Advanced Political Economies, Oxford, Oxford University Press.
Hemerijck, A. (2013) Changing Welfare States, Oxford University Press.
10. Economic challenges to the welfare state
Atkinson, A. (2000),The economic consequences of rolling back the welfare state, MIT, chps.1, 2,5.
Modalità di verifica e valutazione dell'apprendimento
Orario di ricevimento
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