Schedule autumn 2006 - SOS 4902 The Scandinavian Welfare State Model
Coordinator: Professor Arnlaug Leira
Lecturers: Professor Anne Lise Ellingsæter, Professor Arnlaug Leira
Time: Weeks 34 – 39, Tuesdays and Thursdays 14.15 - 16.00
Place: Tuesdays: Harriet Holter’s House room 323
Thursdays: Harriet Holter’s House room 013
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Week 34
August 22
Professor Arnlaug Leira
The comparative study of welfare state regimes 1.
1.Introduction
The first meeting gives a more detailed introduction to the course, the
required reading, course paper, and presents the main themes of the lectures.
2. The comparative study of welfare state regimes 1.
The seminar gives a first introduction to the comparative study of welfare state regimes,
drawing in particular on the typology of Gøsta Esping-Andersen (1990)
Literature
Esping-Andersen, G. (1990): The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism.
Cambridge: Polity Press, 1990. pp 1-35. (27 pages).
Korpi, W. (2000): “The power resources model”, in Pierson, C. and
Castles, F.G. The Welfare State Reader. Cambridge: Polity, pp 77-88. (12 pages).
August 24
Professor Arnlaug Leira
The comparative study of welfare state regimes 2.
1.This session first overviews main trends in the response to Esping-Andersen’s typology of
welfare state regimes, and takes a special look at the feminist critique of his dimensions and
his approach to gender (Lewis; Orloff).
Next the seminar turns to a discussion of the normative foundations of the Nordic welfare
states (Kildal and Kuhnle; Siim and Borchorst)
2. Short discussion of course paper
Literature
Kildal and Kuhnle (2005): The Normative Foundations of the Welfare State. The Nordic
Experience. Chs 1-2, pp 1-33. ( 30 pages).
Lewis, J. (1997): "Gender and Welfare Regimes: Further Thoughts",
Social Politics, 4: 160-177. (18 pages).
Orloff, Ann (1993): ”Gender and the Social Rights of Citizenship: The
Comparative Analysis of Gender Relations and Welfare States”. American
Sociological Review, vol. 58, 303-28. (25 pages).
Siim, B. and Borchorst, A. (2005): "The woman-friendly welfare state revisited", in Kildal,
N. and Kuhnle, S.(eds.) (2005): The Normative Foundations of Welfare
States. London: Routledge. pp. 97-111. (14 pages).
Week 35
August 29
Professor Anne Lise Ellingsæter
Welfare state regimes and the family
In the late 1990s Esping-Andersen returned to consider the criticism of his welfare regime
typology. The seminar discusses his response to critics, and examines his (re)consideration
of the importance of family in welfare state analysis.
Literature
Esping-Andersen, Gøsta (1999): The Social Foundations of Postindustrial
Economies. (Chs. 1, 2, 5, 8). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 55 pages.
August 31
Professor Anne Lise Ellingsæter
The Europenisation of Social Policies
The seminar first examines the influence of Europeanization of social policies in a
Scandinavian perspective (Hagen 2001) and goes onto consider welfare state restructuring
in Southern Europe (Ferrera 2000).
Literature
Ferrera, M. (2000): "Reconstructing the welfare state in Southern
Europe", in Kuhnle, S. (ed.), Survival of the European Welfare State.
London: Routledge. pp 166-168. (22 pages).
Hagen, K. (2001): “Towards a Europeanisation of social policies. A
Scandinavian perspective”, in Bouget, D. and Palier, B. (eds), Comparing
welfare systems in Norway and France, vol. 4. Paris: MIRE-DREES, pp
661-688. (27 pages).
Proposals for course paper topics
Week 36
05. September
Professor Anne Lise Ellingsæter
Welfare State Restructuring and Change in the Nordic countries
What kind of welfare state emerged in the postwar period, and how do the
Nordic varieties differ from continental European and Anglo-American
varieties? How useful is the generalisation of one Nordic model of
social development? Are there similar responses to the crisis of the
welfare state across the Nordic area in the 1980s and 1990s?
Literature:
Kautto, Mikko et al (eds.) (1999): Nordic Social Policy. Changing Welfare States. London and
New York: Routledge. Chs 1 -2 and (ca 60 pages).
07. September
Professor Arnlaug Leira
Social Care in Welfare State Restructuring
Increasingly, the provision of social care – care for the very young and the very old – is
becoming an urgent issue for the welfare states in Western Europe. The seminar considers
the conceptualization of ‘care’ and ‘care regimes’ in welfare state analysis, and discusses
different policy approaches to social care.
Literature
Daly, M. and Lewis, J. (1998): "Introduction: Conceptualising Social
Care in the Context of Welfare State Restructuring”, in Lewis, Jane
(ed.), Gender, Social Care and Welfare State Restructuring in Europe.
Ashgate: Aldershot. pp.1 -24. (24 pages).
Leira, A. and Saraceno, C. (2002): “Care: actors, relationships,
contexts”. In Hobson, B., Lewis, J., Siim, B. (eds.), Contested concepts
in gender and social politics. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 55-83. (28 pages).
Ostner, I.(2004): “’What are children for?’ Reciprocity and solidarity
between parents and children", in Knijn, T. and Komter, A. (eds.),
Solidarity between the Sexes and the Generations. Transformations in
Europe. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. Ch. 10, pp167-184. (17 pages)
Students to submit their choice of topic for course paper.
Individual tutoring re course paper: weeks 37 -38
Week 37
12. September
Professor Anne Lise Ellingsæter
Reconciliation of Work and Family 1
This seminar focuses on central aspects of the Scandinavian welfare
state model, particularly as related to families, children and gender
equality. The discussion centers on family change and policy reform since the 1990s, a
period in which the restructuring of the relationship between the welfare state, family and
labour market has been pronounced.
Literature
Leira, Arnlaug (2002): Working Parents and the Welfare State. Family
change and policy reform in Scandinavia. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press. Chs. 1, 2, 6. (ca 60 pages).
Ellingsæter, A. L. (2000): "Welfare states, labour markets and gender
relations in transition", in Boje, T.P. and Leira, A. (eds.): Gender.
Welfare state and the Market: Towards a new division of labour. London:
Routledge. pp 89 - 110. (22 pages).
14. September
Professor Anne Lise Ellingsæter
Reconciliation of Work and Family 2
Following the seminar on Scandinavian policy reform (Sept 12), this seminar goes on to
discuss discussion of the reconciliation of work and family in Central Europe
since the 1990s, a period in which the restructuring of the
relationship between the welfare state, family and labour market has
been pronounced. The different experience of Eastern European countries is contrasted with
those of Scandinavia, France and Spain.
Literature
Pascall, Gillian and Kwak, Anna (2005): Gender regimes in transition in
Central and Eastern Europe. Bristol: Policy Press. Chapters 1-2, (ca 50
Pages).
Tobio, C. (2004): “Kinship Support, Gender and Social Policy in France
and Spain”, in Knijn, T. and Komter, A. (eds.), Solidarity between the
Sexes and the Generations. Transformations in Europe. Cheltenham: Edward
Elgar. Ch. 9, pp150- 166. (16 pages)
Week 38
19. September
Professor Arnlaug Leira
A new welfare state?
For several years the need for welfare state reform has been strongly voiced. What are the
main challenges to the European welfare state? The seminar discusses Gøsta EspingAndersen's agenda for change (2002)
Literature
Esping-Andersen, G. et al (2002): Why we need a new welfare state.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, chs. 1-3. (95 pages).
21. September
Professor Arnlaug Leira
Challenges for the Nordic welfare state
1.This seminar discusses the need for welfare reform as discussed within the context of the
Nordic welfare states.
Kautto, M. et al (chapters 10 and 11)
Literature
Kautto, M. et al (eds.)(1999): Nordic Social Policy. Changing Welfare
States. London and New York: Routledge. Chs 10, 11. (30 pages).
2. Summary
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