Social Policy - JSM727

• Title: Social Policy
• Czech title: Sociální Politika
• Guaranteed by: Department of Public and Social Policy (23-KVSP)
• Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
• Actual: from 2022
• Semester: summer
• E-Credits: 8
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/2, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / 29 (30)
• Min. number of students: 8
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Old code: JSM519
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: Mgr. Ing. Olga Angelovská, Ph.D.; Mirna Jusić, M.A., Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): Mgr. Ing. Olga Angelovská, Ph.D.; Mirna Jusić, M.A., Ph.D.
• Class: Courses for incoming students
• Incompatibility : JSM519
• Is incompatible with: JSM519
• Is interchangeable with: JSM519

Annotation

This graduate course should improve the theoretical knowledge of students on social policy in the present, post-industrial world. The main perspective will be placed on the concept of “welfare state regimes or models” and their practical consequences in different social policy areas, such as employment policy, pensions, family and long-term care policies and redistributive policies. These policies will be analysed in the context of the European Union countries. Attention will also be placed on emerging welfare state regimes in the Central and Eastern Europe. The course will be organised in the form of seminars, where students will actively work on topics covered in the recommended literature.

Last update: Jusić Mirna, M.A., Ph.D. (31.01.2025)

Aim of the course

This course is designed to help students acquire knowledge about the greatest challenges facing the European welfare states nowadays. After the completion of this course, students should be able to:

-          know theoretical concept of the welfare state (its history, functions, threats).

-          know how welfare states in Europe cope with the most recent challenges of the dynamics of (post)industrial society.

-          understand what the most important social problems and the policy implications in the present European states are. 

-          understand alternative options in social policy, analyze the links between the social, economic and political context, policy solutions, and impacts of the policies. 

 

Last update: Jusić Mirna, M.A., Ph.D. (31.01.2025)

Literature

Core literature 

Béland D., Morgan K. J., Obinger H., Pierson Ch. (2022) The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State. (2nd edition) Oxford University Press.

Esping-Andersen, G. (1990) The three worlds of welfare capitalism. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Recommended articles available in Moodle for each topic. 

Other recommended references

Bonoli, G. (2013) The origins of active social policy: labour market and childcare policies in a comparative perspective. Oxford: Oxford University Press. str. 11-27

Copeland, P., Daly, M. (2018) The European Semester and EU Social Policy. Journal of common market studies. Wiley S.ubscription Services. 56(5), 1001-1018 

Esping-Andersen, G. (1999) Social Foundations of Postindustrial Economies. Oxford University Press, pp. 147-169

Esping-Andersen, G. (ed.) (1997) Welfare States in Transition. National Adaptations in Global Economies. Sage. pp. 32-65, 66-87

Kurowska, A. (2018) (De)familialization and (De)genderization – Competing or Complementary Perspectives in Comparative Policy Analysis? Social policy & administration. 52(1), 29-49

Ranci C, Pavolini E. Not all that glitters is gold: Long-term care reforms in the last two decades in Europe. Journal of European Social Policy. 2015;25(3):270-285.

Sabato, S., Corti, F. (2018) Chapter 3 'The times they are a-changin'?' The European pillar of social rights from debates to reality check. In book: Social Policy in the European Union: state of the play 2018. (pp.51 - 70). European Trade Union Institute and European Social Observatory

Taylor-Gooby, P., Hvinden, B., Mau, S.,  Leruth, B., Schoyen, M. A., Gyory, A. (2019)  Moral economies of the welfare state: A qualitative comparative study.Acta sociologica [online]. London, England: SAGE Publications. 62(2), 119-134.  

Vanhercke, B., Spasova, S., Fronteddu, B.  (2021) Social policy in the European Union: state of play 2020. Facing the pandemic. Brussels: European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) and European Social Observatory (OSE), 220 p

Last update: Jusić Mirna, M.A., Ph.D. (31.01.2025)

Requirements to the exam

All students are obliged to:

• participate in seminars 
• complete weekly written tasks dealing with a seminar topic using recommended scientific resources, mostly academic articles 
• 2 presentations (teamwork)
• hand in final paper on social policy topic

 

 

 

Last update: Jusić Mirna, M.A., Ph.D. (31.01.2025)