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79104 - Sem. Welfare State: Developments and Current Issues

Academic Year 2020/2021

                
                        Docente:
                        Fabio Nuti Giovanetti
                    
                        Credits:
                        3
                    
                        SSD:
                        SECS-P/01
                    
                        Language:
                        Italian
                    
                        Teaching Mode:
                        Traditional lectures
                        
                            Campus:
                            Bologna
                        
                            Corso:
                            First cycle degree programme (L) in
                            Employment and Business Relations Consultant (cod. 9230)

                            Teaching resources on Virtuale

Learning outcomes

The seminar covers the Birth, development and crisis of the all-important institution of Welfare State (Welfare System), both in itsgeneral terms and in relation with the most relevant national experiences.

Attendants are supposed to develop a satisfactory understanding of the basic principles underlying the main features of modern Welfare, the way they interplay with one another as regards individual and social consequences, and the effects of the differing solutions on their development and problems.

Course contents

The intervention of the State in the economy and society

The beginning of Welfare State. Its roots in Germany and UK

Poverty

Inequality

Health

Old Age

The Liberist view and the Neo-Conservative policies in post-1989 Europe

The debate about basic income

Recent evolution. A view on the next future

Readings/Bibliography

Suggestions will be provided along the course.

Teaching methods

Lectures with discussion

Assessment methods

Short essay, to be defined together with the lecturer.

The essay is to concern a problem connected with the programme of the course, though not necessarily about the issues covered by the lectures.

The choice of the theme implies a preliminary overview of the quality and quantity of adequate bibliographic material.

No particular dimension is expected - even less defined in terms of pages or characters. On the other hand, knowledge of the main sources of the debate is essential.

The work will have to be submitted to the lecturer for approval in its subsequent stages, in order to elicit amendments and/or radical changes.

Once approved, the essay will be discussed with the lecturer. The discussion might be brought to relevant issues of the programme of the course.

Assessment Criteria:

18-21: basic survey of the literature, without original contributions

22-24: survey with substantial bibliographic references

25-28: critical insights, substantial bibliographic references

30-30 cum laude: thoroughly original contribution

Teaching tools

PowerPoint Slides, available at 'Virtuale'

Office hours

See the website of Fabio Nuti Giovanetti