Topics - PRELIMINARY: (topics and literature will be specified during summer)

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1) Course organization & fast introduction to relevant concepts of political philosophy

Core preparation:

Sandel: Justice: What's The Right Thing To Do? Episode 02: "PUTTING A PRICE TAG ON LIFE"? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O2Rq4HJBxw

Sandel: Justice: What's The Right Thing To Do? Episode 03: "FREE TO CHOOSE"? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qw4l1w0rkjs

2) Welfare state definitions and typology & Overview of welfare state challenges

Core preparation:

Gøsta Esping-Andersen, After the Golden Age? Welfare State Dilemmas in a Global Economy, pp. 1-31 in: Gøsta Esping-Andersen (ed.), Welfare States in Transition. National Adaptations in Global Economies. London: Sage 1996.

Gøsta Esping-Andersen, A Welfare State for the 21st Century, 2002, available online: http://www.nnn.se/seminar/pdf/report.pdf

Additional preparation:

(USA) The Welfare State: A Terrible Name for an Essential System: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/12/the-welfare-state-a-terrible-name-for-an-essential-system/418500/

(general) Diversity or the welfare state: choose one: http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2006/10/diversity_or_the_welfare_state

(Asia) New cradles to graves: http://www.economist.com/node/21562210

(Britain) The Beveridge report revisited: where now for the welfare state?: https://www.theguardian.com/society-professionals/2014/jul/07/-sp-beveridge-report-revisited-where-now-for-the-welfare-state

3) Collectivization and privatization of social risks

Core preparation:

Jacob S. Hacker, Privatizing Risk without Privatizing the Welfare State: The Hidden Politics of Social Policy Retrenchment in the United States, in: American Political Science Review 98 (2) 2004, pp. 243-260.

Additional preparation:

Paul Pierson. The New Politics of the Welfare State. 1996.

Walter Korpi. Welfare-State Regress in Western Europe: Politics, Institutions, Globalization, and Europeanization. 2003.

Eric M. Patashnik. Paul Pierson’s Dismantling the Welfare State: A Twentieth Anniversary Reassessment. 2015.

4) Globalization and welfare state

Core preparation:

Philipp Genschel, Globalization and the welfare state: a retrospective, in: Journal of European Public Policy 11 (4) 2004, pp. 613-636.

Additional preparation:

Iversen, Torben; Cusack, Thomas R. (1998) : The causes of welfare state expansion: deindustrialization or globalization?, WZB Discussion Paper

Nita Rudra. Globalization and the Decline of the Welfare State in Less-Developed Countries. 2002.

Keynes vs. Hayek - video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0nERTFo-Sk

5) Workforce commofification, decommodification and recommodification

Core preparation:

Holden, Chris, "Decommodification and the Welfare State", Political Studies Review. Sep2003, Vol. 1 Issue 3, p303-316.

Additional preparation:

Lee, Kim, and Shim. The Limit of Equality Projects: Public-Sector Expansion, Sectoral Conflicts, and Income Inequality in Postindustrial Economies. 2011.

6) Welfare state and EU

Core preparation:

Isabelle Bruno, Sophie Jacquot & Lou Mandin, Europeanization through its instrumentation: benchmarking, mainstreaming and the open method of coordination … toolbox or Pandora’s box?, in: Journal of European Public Policy 13 (4) 2006, pp. 519-536.

Additional preparation:

TBD

7) Welfare state and family

Core preparation:

Wolfgang Streeck, Flexible Employment, Flexible Families, and the Socialization of Reproduction. MPIfG Working Paper 09/13. Köln: Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung 2009.

Additional preparation:

Alícia Adserà, Changing fertility rates in developed countries. The impact of labor market institutions. 2004.

8) Welfare state and gender

Core preparation:

Mary Daly. What Adult Worker Model? A Critical Look at Recent Social Policy Reform in Europe from a Gender and Family Perspective. 2011.

Additional preparation:

Jennifer Hook. Gender inequality in the welfare state: sex segregation in housework, 1965-2003. 2010.

9) Poverty

Core preparation:

Koen Decancq, Tim Goedemé, Karel Van den Bosch & Josefine Vanhille. The Evolution of Poverty in the European Union: Concepts, Measurement and Data. 2013.

Additional preparation:

Stephanie Moller, Evelyne Huber, John D. Stephens, David Bradley and François Nielsen. Determinants of Relative Poverty in Advanced Capitalist Democracies. 2003

10) Selected welfare policies - education policies in the Czech Republic, retirement policies in the Czech Republic

Core preparation:

Clem Brooks and Jeff Manza. Social Policy Responsiveness in Developed Democracies. 2006.

Additional preparation:

TBD

11) Course summary, additional discussions

Core preparation:

Brian Steensland. Cultural Categories and the American Welfare State: The Case of Guaranteed Income Policy. 2006.

Additional preparation:

TBD, probably something on immigration

12) TEST