The course aims to offer the basis for interpreting the analytical and methodological features, goals and results produced by social policies. The course, firstly introduces the basic concepts and approaches used in the field of social policies and gradually provides tools and methods for the comparative analysis in the various “social” fields. At the end of the second module, the student will be able to analyse the different "Welfare systems", their origin, the kind of data and of sources useful to understand the empirical and programmatic implications of the different regimes.
The course aims to offer a perspective of investigation in the field of social policy, of the organizational structures, the role of street-level bureaucracy and of legal culture in the comparison between the various social policies. The module aims to clarify the role of law in the provision of welfare services and formulate hypotheses for its reconstruction and analysis in the different welfare systems. At the end of the course, students should able to observe the processes of legal formalization in social policy and to reconstruct the possible effects on a social phenomenon.
J. Baldock, L. Mitton, N. Manning, S. Vickerstaff (eds) Social Policy Oxford, University Press, 2012 chap. 1, 3, 17, 18, 20
Readings:
Pierson and Castels The welfare state Reader, G. Esping-Andersen “Three worlds of welfare capitalism”
Castels, Leibfried, Lewis, Obinger, Pierson (eds) The Oxford Handbook of The welfare state, chap. 39 “Models of welfare” pp. 569-583
Cotterell “The concept of legal culture” and L. Friedman “A Reply” in D. Nelken Comparing legal culture chapt. I e II pp. 13-39
M. Lipsky Street Level Bureaucracy “Introduction”
Consoli T. (ed) Migration Towards Southern Europe. The case of Sicily and the Separated Children chap. 1 and 2, pag. 7-55