COMPARATIVE SOCIAL POLICY
Academic Year 2023/2024 - Teacher: MARIA TERESA CONSOLIExpected Learning Outcomes
Course Structure
Lectures and seminars
Required Prerequisites
Attendance of Lessons
Detailed Course Content
The course aims to provide the analytical and methodological basis for interpreting the characteristics, objectives and effects produced by social policies. The course initially introduces the fundamental concepts and approaches used in the field of social policy and progressively offers tools and methods for comparative analysis in the various "social" fields. The course aims to offer a perspective on social policy that takes into account the organizational structures, the role of street-level bureaucracy and the legal culture in the comparison between the various policy interventions. Finally, the course aims at underlying the role of the law in the provision of social welfare services and help students to formulate hypotheses for its reconstruction and analysis in the various welfare systems.
Textbook Information
- Baldock et al. Social Policy, Oxford University Press, 2012 chap. 1.3.17.18.20;
- L. Bifulco, Social Policies ancd Public Action, Routlledge 2017, Chapter 10 “Back to the Social” pp. 139-149
- Lipsky M. , Street level bureaucracy, “Introduction” pp. 1-10
- Ladeur K-H., «The post-modern administrative law» in Law, Legal culture and Society, Routledge 2019 pp.156-170.
- Baglioni S., Sinclair S "Social Innovation and Social Policy" (eds) Policy Press, 2018pp. 35- 61
Course Planning
Subjects | Text References | |
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1 | What is Social Policy | Baldock et al. Social Policy, Oxford University Press, 2012 chap. 1 |
2 | Analysing Social Policy | Baldock et al. Social Policy, Oxford University Press, 2012 chap. 3. |
3 | Social Expenditure | Baldock et al. Social Policy, Oxford University Press, 2012 chap. 3. |
4 | Social Problems | Baldock et al. Social Policy, Oxford University Press, 2012 chap. 17 |
5 | Researching Social Policy | Baldock et al. Social Policy, Oxford University Press, 2012 chap. 18 |
6 | The Impact of Social Policy | Baldock et al. Social Policy, Oxford University Press, 2012 chap..20; |
7 | Street Level Bureaucracy | Lipsky M. , Street level bureaucracy, “Introduction” pp. 1-10 |
8 | Back to the Social | L. Bifulco, Social Policies ancd Public Action, Routlledge 2017, Chapter 10 “Back to the Social” pp. 139-149 |
9 | Legal Culture | Ladeur K-H., «The post-modern administrative law» in Law, Legal culture and Society, Routledge 2019 pp.156-170. |
10 | Social Innovation | Baglioni S., Sinclair S "Social Innovation and Social Policy" (eds) Policy Press, 2018pp. 35- 61 |
Learning Assessment
Learning Assessment Procedures
Examples of frequently asked questions and / or exercises
Social Policy: characteristics and differences between European states
Models of Welfare
Evolution and "crisis" of welfare
The concept of legal culture and social rights
Social Policy and Social Innovation
The Welfare Regimes
Organization, social rights and street level bureaucracy