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Global Politics and Euro-Mediterranean Relation

Global Politics and Euro-Mediterranean Relation. Comparative Social Policy M. Teresa Consoli consoli@unict.it. University of Catania Faculty of Political Science. Course organization. Comparative Social Policy: Introduction Module 1 (2) Rules and regulation in Social Policy

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Global Politics and Euro-Mediterranean Relation

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  1. Global Politics and Euro-Mediterranean Relation Comparative Social Policy M. Teresa Consoli consoli@unict.it University of Catania Faculty of Political Science

  2. Course organization Comparative Social Policy: Introduction Module 1 (2) Rules and regulation in Social Policy 5/6 Lectures (March) 2 Seminars on main topics Module 2 (4) Legal cultures and comparative social policy 5/6 Lectures (April) 2 Seminars on main topics Conclusion

  3. Module 2: Rules and regulation in social policy Lectures : 14 March 16 21 23 5 April Seminars on main topics: 28 March: What is Social Policy 30 March: Poverty and social Exclusion

  4. Module 4: Legal cultures and comparative social policy Lectures : 7 April 12 19 21 28 Seminars on main topics: 14 April: Citizenship and access to service 26 April: Policy organization and implementation

  5. Students are expected to attain lectures, to read and prepare contributions to class discussion and seminars • to submit one piece of written work of 1500 words on the topic of the seminar chosen • examination at the end of the course

  6. The course firstly introduces to systems of social regulation, then progressively offers instruments and methods for comparative research. • The goals of social policy and the services offered at the local level are therefore analysed in relation to legal culture and its different use in the welfare regime

  7. Aims: • Students will be able to analyze in a comparative perspective the different uses of law in modern states and social policies by using theories and methods of the sociological analysis

  8. Social policy • Social policy is concerned with the study of social services and the welfare state • Social services • (endowment, practices, techniques) • Welfare state • (administrative organizations, rights, powers)

  9. Social services • Education • Health care • Housing • Personal social service • Social security

  10. Welfare state • After the second world war • Opposite to war-fare • administrative organizations • Citizenship and rights • Democracy and powers

  11. “Models” of welfare • Beveridge • Universal provision • Entitlement is conditional to residence and need • Benefits are financed through general taxation • Bismarck • Social insurance • Entitlement is conditional upon contribution • Financing is mainly based on employer/employee contributions

  12. Actions • Connected to modernization • to Need definition • and to Public responsability

  13. 1. Actions • Income distribution • Services’ endowment • Regulation

  14. 2. Modernisation • Urban communities • Complex industrial processes • The expansion of the middle class and its life style • Edification of administrative and political systems

  15. 3. Need definition • the five giants: • Idleness • Squalor • Want • Disease • Ignorance

  16. 4. Public responsability • Costs • Aims • Politics

  17. Social engineering • Policy reform and state intervention against social problems • Interdisciplinary approach • economy, sociology, political science,

  18. ends and means Social Problems / Concepts /Measurements and Politics /services / interventions

  19. Roles, rules and responsabilities • The individual • The family • The community • The state

  20. Issues • Individual vs societal • Status vs contract • Family vs state

  21. Models • Marshall: citizenship • Titmuss: state and market • Esping-Andersen: decommodification

  22. Themes and issues Role of the state Legal culture / the “concept” of need Public and private “spheres” Costs of welfare (services and administration) Measurement and legal formalization of poverty and need

  23. Readings: • P. Spicker Social Policy The Policy Press, 2008 second ed. 2010 • J.F. Handler Social Citizenship and workfare in the United States and Western Europe. The paradox of inclusion. Cambridge University Press, 2004 • G. Esping-Andersen The Three worlds of Welfare capitalism Polity Press, 1990 • D. Gallie e S. Paugam Welfare regimes and the experience of unemployment in Europe Oxford University • Press • N. Luhmann Law as a social system, Oxford University Press 2004

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