COMPARATIVE SOCIAL POLICY

Academic Year 2022/2023 - Teacher: MARIA TERESA CONSOLI

Expected Learning Outcomes

The course aims to provide the theoretical and methodological basis according to which sociology analyzes the different ways of organizing and regulating social policies. An international comparative perspective will be offered in order to deepen the origins and transformations of welfare systems.

Course Structure

Lectures and seminars

Required Prerequisites

Basic knowledge on sociology, methodology of social research and analysis of public policy

Attendance of Lessons

In presence, according to rules of the general course

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
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

Seminars in presence and written essay

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

VERSIONE IN ITALIANO

Degree Course in

Global Politics and Euro-Mediterranean Relations