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
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).
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.
