POLITICAL SCIENCE

Public Administration, Type of States and Public policies

Political Science

1. Typologies of welfare capitalism. Classification of Western welfare states according to the three "worlds of welfare capitalism" defined by Esping-Andersen. The three types, characterised by a specific labour market regime and also by a specific post‐industrial employment trajectory, are the following:

- Liberal regimes. Modest, means-tested assistance, and targeted at low-income, usually working-class recipients. Strict entitlement rules associated with stigma. Encouragement of market solutions to social problems.

- Conservative regimes. Typically shaped by traditional family values, and moting family-based assistance dynamics. Social insurance in this model typically excludes non-working wives, and family benefits encourage motherhood. State assistance is provided only when the family's capacity to aid its members is exhausted.

- Social democratic regimes, universalistic systems that promote an equality of high standards, rather than an equality of minimal needs. Heavy social service financial burden, which introduces an imperative to minimize social problems, thereby aligning the system's goals with the welfare and emancipation (typically via full employment policies) of those it supports.

2) Gender relations and the welfare state. Gender relations, as embodied in the sexual division of labor, compulsory heterosexuality, discourses and ideologies of citizenship, motherhood, masculinity and femininity, profoundly shape the character of welfare states. Likewise, the institutions of social provision, the set of social assistance and social insurance programs, universal citizenship entitlements, and public services to which we refer as "the welfare state" affect gender relations in various ways that will be discussed in this part of the course.

3) The South European and the Spanish model of welfare states. This section of the course analyses the evolution of the Spanish welfare state with regard to Europeanization and globalization. The second part studies the impact of regional decentralization on its development, and the final part addresses the four key challenges for the Spanish welfare state in the 21st century.

4. Other models of welfare states outside Europe.

5.New challenges to welfare states posed by globalisation, international migration and regional integration.

CB2, CB3, CB4

CE12

Esping-Andersen, Gøsta. The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism. Princeton N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1990.

Esping-Andersen, Gøsta. Why We Need a New Welfare State. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Morgan, Kimberly J. Working Mothers and the Welfare State: Religion and the Politics of Work-family Policies in Western Europe and the United States. Stanford University Press, 2006.

Pierson, Paul, ed. The New Politics of the Welfare State. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Morgan, Kimberly J. Working Mothers and the Welfare State: Religion and the Politics of Work-family Policies in Western Europe and the United States. Stanford University Press, 2006

Orloff, Ann S. 2009. “Gendering the Comparative Analysis of Welfare States: An Unfinished Agenda.” Sociological Theory 27 (3): 317–43.

Sainsbury, Diane. Gender and welfare state regimes. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1999

Del Pino, Eloísa (2013), "The Spanish Welfare State from Zapatero to Rajoy: Recalibration and Retrenchment", in Politics and Society in Contemporary Spain. Palgrave, Macmillan: 197‐216

Ferrera, Maurizio, “The  South European  Countries”,  in  Francis G.  Castles  et  al., eds., The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State, pp. 616-629 (BB).

Naldini, Manuela  and Teresa Jurado, “Family  and Welfare  State Reorientation in Spain and Inertia in Italy  from  a  European Perspective”, Population Review, Vol. 52, No. 1, 2013, pp. 43-61 (CP).

Perez, Sofia A., and Martin Rhodes, “The Evolution and Crisis of the Social  Models in Italy and  Spain”,  in  Jon  Erik  Dølvik  and  Andrew  Martin,  eds., European  Social  Models  from Crisis to Crisis, pp. 177-213 (CP).

Practical Assignments 40%

Assesment of the theoretical part 60%

 Students will have to attend theory classes and acquire basic knowledge.

Same as in the ordinary evaluation