WELFARE STATE POLITICS
Estudios Globales / Global Studies
Curso 2025/2026
1. Subject Information
(Date last modified: 27-05-25 14:09)- Code
- 140521
- Plan
- 405
- ECTS
- 6.00
- Type
- Compulsory
- Year
- 3
- Duration
- First semester
- Language
- ENGLISH
- Area
- CIENCIA POLÍTICA Y DE LA ADMINISTRACIÓN
- Departament
- Derecho Público General
- Virtual platform
Professor Information
- Professor
- Hugo Marcos Marné
- Group/s
- Único
- Centre
- Fac. Derecho
- Office
- Área de ciencia política, Planta Jardín
- Office hours
- -
- Web address
- https://produccioncientifica.usal.es/investigadores/107738/detalle
- marcosmarne@usal.es
- Phone
- Ext 6399
- Professor
- Pablo González González
- Group/s
- Único
- Centre
- Fac. Derecho
- Office
- Casa del Bedel, 3ª planta, Despacho 27
- Office hours
- -
- Web address
- https://produccioncientifica.usal.es/investigadores/262716/detalle
- pablogglz@usal.es
- Phone
- -
2. Association of the subject matter within the study plan
3. Prerequisites
The course has no prerequisites.
4. Learning objectives
- To understand welfare regimes from a comparative perspective.
- To consider the specific policies that are part of welfare regimes.
- To learn about the mechanisms that explain different types of welfare states.
- To comprehend the foundations of citizens´ support for welfare regimes.
- To analyze actual cases of welfare regimes building upon theoretical approaches
5. Contents
Theory.
- Introduction: Democracy and capitalism
- Policies: Old age pensions and unemployment insurance
- Policies: Health and education
- Policies: Social assistance, family benefits and services.
- Policy outcomes: Inequality and poverty
- Emerging welfare states
- Gender and welfare
- Ethnocultural diversity and welfare
- Welfare state justifications and critiques
- The future of the welfare state
6. Competences acquired
Basic / General.
CB2, CB3, CB4
Specific.
CE12
7. Teaching methods
This course combines theoretical and practical sessions
8. Anticipated distribution of the use of the different teaching methods
9. Resources
Reference books.
Esping-Andersen, Gøsta. (1990). The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism. Princeton N.J.: Princeton University Press.
Esping-Andersen, Gøsta. (2002). Why We Need a New Welfare State. New York: Oxford University Press.
Castles, Francis., Leibfried, Stephan., Lewis, Jane., Obinger, Herbert., and Pierson, Christopher. (2010). The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Aspalter, Christian. (2019). The Routledge International Handbook to Welfare State Systems. New York: Routledge.
Other bibliographic references, electronic or other types of resources.
A complete list of articles (at least two per session) will be uploaded to Studium at the beginning of the course. Reading the articles before each session is not mandatory, but it will be of great help to follow the content of the class and take an active role on it.
10. Assessment
Assessment criteria.
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Consideraciones Generales |
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This course combines different assignment tools |
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Criterios de evaluación |
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Participation 10% Practical assignments 40% Final exam 50% (a minimum grade of 4 is required to pass the course) |
Evaluation systems.
List of participation
Participation in the practical sessions and grading of the assignments
Final exam
Assessment recommendations.
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Recomendaciones para la evaluación. |
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Attending theoretical sessions is highly recommended Practical assignments account for a relevant part of the final mark. Participating and completing all practical exercises is advised. |
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Recomendaciones para la recuperación. |
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Evaluation tools will be the same. Additional advice, tailored to specific cases, will be offered if requested |