SP400 Reading List (2020-21) PDF

Preview

Summary

social policy...

Description

SP400 Reading list – 2020-21

SP400 INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL AND PUBLIC POLICY Michaelmas Term (Half Unit) 2020. Q&A Session | ONLINE | Mondays – 14:00-14:30 (Timetabled 14:00-15:00 to account for technical issues) Pre-recorded lecture will be available on the Friday before the Q&A)

Wk

Q&A date

Teacher

Topic

1

28 Sep

SK & IS

Global Changes and Policy Challenges: what is International Social and Public Policy (ISPP)?

2

7 Oct

LP

Analysing the Ideas and Goals of ISPP

3

14 Oct

IS

Analysing ISPP Institutions and Instruments

4

21 Oct

TF

Analysing Governance and Welfare Politics in ISSP

5

28 Oct

TF

Analysing Continuity and Change in ISPP

6

Reading Week

7

11 Nov

HS

Analysing Social Positions and Structural Inequality in ISPP

8

18 Nov

TF

Application 1: Social Protection around the World

9

25 Nov

AW

Application 2: Investing in Human Capital: between the Public and Private in Education

10

02 Dec

DL

Application 3: Power, Participation and Voice in ISPP in Development Contexts

11

9 Dec

AO

Application 4: Government Policy Responses to the Coronavirus Pandemic

Seminars start in week 2 (Membership of seminar groups and sub-groups to be provided by the Social Policy administration teams). Course Director: Dr Sunil Kumar, OLD.2.24, email [email protected] MSc Programme Office, OLD.2.48, email [email protected]

Lecturers SK: Sunil Kumar IS: Isabel Shutes LP: Lucinda Platt TF: Timo Fleckenstein HS: Hakan Seckinelgin AW: Anne West DL: David Lewis AO: Adam Oliver

1

SP400 Reading list – 2020-21

Course Aims This course engages with key social and public policy challenges facing states and citizens across the world. It introduces students to core issues, concepts, actors and debates shaping our understanding of social and public policy, its drivers and impacts. It outlines the questions raised by efforts to ensure a healthy, educated and productive population, to protect those without other means of support, and to reduce inequalities of e.g. gender, class, and ethnicity. It discusses diverse policy approaches to these issues, their ideological underpinnings, and the varying configurations of local, national and international actors involved within the realms of state, market, civil society and family. The course explores applications of key theories and concepts to a range of ‘real life’ policy domains and to varied country contexts. The course is informed by an international and comparative approach that considers both rich and poor country contexts and international dimensions and locates these within a historical understanding of both national and global processes. Learning outcomes By the end of the course, students will be able to: • • •

Evaluate critically competing goals within ISPP and identify those competing goals in real-life areas of social and public policy across the world Analyse key institutions at local, national and international levels which make up welfare systems and evaluate the many and complex ways in which these inter-relate Synthesise social and public policy theories to construct critical arguments on political processes and power relations which are endemic in real life areas of ISPP.

COURSE TEACHING Lectures and Q&A All lectures are pre-recorded and will be made available on the Friday of the week preceding the 30 minute Q&A. There will be an online 30 minute Q&A session on the Monday of each week (for example, the lecture for week 1 will be available on Friday of week 0 and the Q&A will take place on Monday, week 1 at 14:00). The Q&A has been timetabled to take place between 14:00-15:00 to accommodate any technical glitches and will start at 14:00. Seminars Beyond the weekly pre-recorded lecture and the Q&A, students will attend a weekly seminar for this course, starting in Week 2. Seminars will be in COVID-19 secure small groups of about 8 students, which will be further subdivided into sub-groups of 4 students. Each student will explore the readings relating to the previous week’s lecture. Each lecture will suggest activities that the subgroups will undertake and present in the seminars. This will provide an opportunity for lively and interesting co-operative learning among classmates from diverse backgrounds. Seminar participation is not-assessed but it will encourage students to think critically about lecture content, ensuring good preparation for work that is formally assessed on the course. Through seminar participation you are expected to develop your skills in articulating ideas and information to the rest of the group, and to improve your ability to discuss issues.

2

SP400 Reading list – 2020-21

Course Readings All students are strongly urged to do some reading on and thinking about each weekly topic for the course and to be prepared to discuss in seminars the reading they have done. The reading list for the course comprises both ‘essential’ and ‘further’ readings each week. Students are not expected to read the entire reading list, and indeed they may find useful material not on the reading list. However, students are expected to read the core readings each week . It is also strongly recommended that students read in greater depth when preparing for a course assignment on a particular topic.

ASSESSMENT Formative In preparation for the SP400 online take-home exam, students are expected to complete a 1200 word due on Thursday of Week 9 in the Michaelmas Term (28th November 2019 at 12 noon). The formative essay will be non-assessed; however, students will receive individual feedback from seminar leaders on their performance and on areas for possible improvement. Titles for the essays should be drawn from the weekly seminar ‘guiding questions’. Summative The course is assessed on the basis of a take-home assignment in the Summer Term. This exam will test students’ understanding of key concepts and literature from across the course. It will be split into two sections – A and B. Section A will comprise questions drawn from the first six topics on the course; section B will comprise questions drawn from the remaining topics. Students must answer two questions and at least one of these must be from Section A.

3

SP400 Reading list – 2020-21

Lecture 1: Global Changes and Policy Challenges: What is International Social and Public Policy Isabel Shutes and Sunil Kumar This lecture will provide an introduction to International Social and Public Policy (ISPP) as a multidisciplinary field of study. It will consider how social and public policies across the world are always seeking to respond to key global challenges of our time which threaten human rights and social citizenship, such as growing inequality, technological change, demographic change and climate change. Guiding question: To what extent is it reasonable to suggest that ‘international social and public policies are more important today than ever before’? What challenges are there to consider? Essential Readings Lewis, D. (2017) ‘Should we pay more attention to South-North learning?’, Human Service Organisations: Management, Leadership and Governance, 41, 4, 327-331. Pailey, R.N. (2020) ‘De-centring the “White Gaze” of Development’, Development and Change 51(3): 729–745. Williams, F. (2016) ‘Critical Thinking in Social Policy: The Challenges of Past, Present and Future’, Social Policy and Administration, 50, 6, 628-647. Further readings Atkinson, A.B. (2015) Inequality: What Can Be Done? Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Especially Chapter 1 ‘Setting the Scene’ and ‘The Way Forward’. Beland, D., Shoyama, J., Mahon, R. (2016) Advanced Introduction to Social Policy. Edward Elgar. Introduction and Chapter 1. Cairney, P. (2012) Understanding Public Policy: Theories and Issues. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Chapters 1-3. Castles, F., Liebfried, S., Lewis, J., Obinger, H., Pierson, C. (eds) (2011) The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pages 3-14 and Chapters 5 and 6. Dean, H. (2012) Social Policy – Second Edition. Cambridge: Polity. Chapter 1. Esping-Andersen, G. (ed) (1996) Welfare States in Transition: National Adaptation in Global Economies. London: Sage. Chapter 1. Faist, T. (2016) ‘Cross-Border Migration and Social Inequalities’, Annual Review of Sociology, 42, 323346. Farnsworth, K., Irving, Z. (2015) (eds) Social Policy in Times of Austerity: Global Economic Crisis and the New Politics of Welfare. Bristol: Policy Press. Garland, D. (2016) The Welfare State: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Glenn, J. (2009) ‘Welfare spending in an era of globalization: the North-South divide’, International Relations, 23, 1, 27-50. Hill, M., Varone F. (2017) The Public Policy Process: Seventh Edition. Routledge. Chapter 1 ‘Studying the Policy Process’. [NB: earlier editions of this book chapter are also fine] Hoppe, R. (2011) The Governance of Problems: Puzzling, Powering, Participation. Bristol: Policy Press. Chapter 1.

4

SP400 Reading list – 2020-21

Midgeley, J., Piachaud, D. (2011) (eds) Colonialism and Welfare: Social Policy and the British Imperial Legacy. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. Introduction and Chapters 1 and 2. Mkandawire, T. (ed) (2004) Social Policy in a Development Context. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Chapter 1. Titmuss, R.M. (1974) Social Policy. London: Allen and Unwin. Chapters 1 and 2. Yeates, N. (ed) (2014) Understanding Global Social Policy. Bristol: Policy Press. Chapter 1.

Lecture 2 (Week 2): Analysing the Ideas and Goals of ISPP Lucinda Platt This lecture offers an introduction to different positions on the goals of social and public policies, their historical and ideological underpinnings, and different normative positions on the role of the state. The emphasis is on the way ideas shape - and are shaped by - specific institutional configurations, and how they are reworked to justify specific policy actions and interventions. The first part focuses on some key ways that the role of the state and social policy has been represented, while the second part focuses on the reception and application of particular ideas. Guiding question Can the goals of social policy be usefully characterised according to particular theories? Essential readings Caldwell, B. 2020. The Road to Serfdom after 75 Years. Journal of Economic Literature, 58 (3): 72048. Gough, I. (2004) ”Welfare regimes in development contexts: a global and regional analysis” In I. Gough and G.D. Wood (eds.) Insecurity and welfare regimes in Asia, Africa, and Latin America: social policy in development contexts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Béland, D. (2005) Ideas and Social Policy: An Institutionalist Perspective. Social Policy & Administration, 39: 1-18. Further Readings Beland, D., Shoyama, J., Mahon, R. (2016) Advanced Introduction to Social Policy. Edward Elgar. Chapters 1-3. Barr, N, (2012) The Economics of the Welfare State – Fifth Edition. Chapter 2 - Political Theory: Social Justice and the State. Castles, F., Liebfried, S., Lewis, J., Obinger, H., Pierson, C. (eds) (2011) The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Chapters 3 & 4. Crouch, C. (2011) The Strange Non-Death of Neo-Liberalism. Malden, MA: Polity. Daly, M. (2011) Welfare. Cambridge: Polity. Chapters 3 & 4. Dworkin, R. (1981) ‘What is Equality? Part I: Equality of Welfare’, Philosophy and Public Affairs, 10, 3, 185-246. Especially sections I & II. Esping-Andersen, G. (1990) The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism. Cambridge: Polity. Chapters 13. [NB: helpful extract also reprinted in Pierson et al’s ‘Welfare State Reader’]

5

SP400 Reading list – 2020-21

Fraser, N. (2008) Scales of Justice: Reframing Political Space in a Globalizing World. Cambridge: Polity. Chapter 2. Fukuyama, F. (1989) ‘The End of History?’ The National Interest, 16, 3-18. Gough, I., Wood, G. (2004) Insecurity and Welfare Regimes in Asia, Africa and Latin America: Social Policy in Development Contexts. Cambridge University Press. Jenson, J. (2010) ‘Diffusing Ideas for After Neoliberalism: The Social Investment Perspective in Europe and Latin America’, Global Social Policy, 10, 1, 59-84. Lister, R. (2010) Understanding Theories and Concepts in Social Policy. Bristol: Policy Press. Chapter 6 and 7. Lister, R. (2010) Understanding Theories and Concepts in Social Policy. Bristol: Policy Press. Chapters 1, 2 and 8. Marshall, T.H. (1950) ‘Citizenship and Social Class’ in Pierson, C., Castles, F.G., Naumann, I. (eds) (2014) The Welfare State Reader – Third Edition. Cambridge: Polity. Pierson, C., Castles, F.G., Naumann, I. (eds) (2014) The Welfare State Reader – Third Edition. Cambridge: Polity. Useful chapters by Offe, Hayek, Murray, showing divergent perspectives on the welfare state (see the sections ‘Perspectives on the Left’ and ‘Responses from the Right’) Williams, F. (2016) ‘Critical Thinking in Social Policy: The Challenges of Past, Present and Future’, Social Policy and Administration, 50, 6, 628-647.

Lecture 3 (Week 3): Analysing ISPP Institutions and Instruments Isabel Shutes This lecture will introduce the key policy instruments – financing, provision and regulation – deployed by social and public policy makers across the world in order to meet ISPP goals. The lecture will additionally introduce the primary institutions which are the building blocks of overarching ‘systems of welfare’ – the state, the market, civil society and the family – and their complexities. Guiding question How public or private are our welfare institutions? Does it matter? Essential readings Powell, M. (2007) Understanding the Mixed Economy of Welfare. Bristol: Policy Press. Chapter 1. Kabeer, N., Cook, S. (2000) ‘Revisioning social policy in the South: challenges and concepts’, IDS Bulletin, 31, 4, 1-18. Eikenberry, A. (2009) ‘Refusing the market: A democratic discourse for voluntary and non-profit organisations’, Non-profit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 38, 4, 582-596. Tronto, J. (2001) 'Who cares? Public and private caring and the rethinking of citizenship' in Hirschmann, N.J., Liebert, U. (eds) Women and Welfare: Theory and Practice in the US and Europe. Further readings Barr, N. (2012) The Economics of the Welfare State – Fifth Edition. Chapter 3 – Economic Theory 1: State Intervention (NB: there is a helpful non-technical summary at the end of the chapter). Clarke, J., Newman, M. (1997) The Managerial State. London: Sage. Chapters 1-3.

6

SP400 Reading list – 2020-21

Daly, M. (2011) Welfare. Cambridge: Polity. Chapter 6. Deacon, B. (2014) ‘Global and regional social governance’ in Yeates, N. (ed) Understanding Global Social Policy. Bristol: Policy Press. Flaherty, J. (2016) No More Heroes: Grassroots Challenges to the Saviour Mentality. Chico, CA: AK Press. Gingrich, J. (2011) Making Markets in the Welfare State: the Politics of Varying Market Reforms. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Chapters 1-3. Glennerster, H. (2009) Understanding the Finance of Welfare: What Welfare Costs and How to Pay for it. Bristol: Policy Press. Chapters 1-3. Harris, B. (2010) ‘Voluntary action and the state in historical perspective’, Voluntary Sector Review, 1, 1, 25-40. Howell, J., Pearce, J. (2001) Civil Society and Development: A Critical Exploration. London: Lynne Rienner. Chapters 1 and 4. Kerlin, J. (2010) 'A comparative analysis of the global emergence of social enterprise', Voluntas, 21, 2, 162-179. Lewis, J. (2004) ‘The state and the third sector in modern welfare states: independence, instrumentality and partnerships’ in Evers, A., Laville, J-L. (eds) The Third Sector in Europe. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. Pahl, J. (2011) 'The family and welfare' in Baldock, J. et al (eds) Social Policy – Fourth Edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Powell, M. (ed) Understanding the Mixed Economy of Welfare. Bristol: Policy Press. Chapters 9 and 10. Smith, S., Le Grand, J., Propper, C. (2008) The Economics of Social Problems – Fourth edition. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Chapters 1 and 10.

Lecture 4 (Week 4): Analysing Governance and Welfare Politics in ISSP Timo Fleckenstein This lecture will explore the political dynamics in social policy-making, looking at different actors in the political process and their power to shape welfare reforms. This includes the study of political parties but also organized interests (such as trade unions and business), in addition to unelected officials in government bureaucracies. Who sits in the “driving seat” of social policy”?

Essential Readings Amenta, E. (2003) What We Know about the Development of Social Policy. In: J. Mahoney and D. Rueschemeyer (eds.), Comparative Historical Analysis in the Social Sciences, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 91-130. Myles, J. and J. Quadagno (2002) Political Theories of the Welfare State. Social Service Review 76: 34-57

7

SP400 Reading list – 2020-21

Further Readings Castles, F.G. et al., eds. (2010) The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Dryzek, J.S. and P. Dunleavy (2009) Theories of the Democratic State. Basingstoke: Palgrave (Chapters 1 and 6) Estevez-Abe, Margarita et al. (2001) Social Protection and the Formation of Skills: A Reinterpretation of the Welfare State’, in P. Hall and D Soskice (eds) Varieties of Capitalism: The Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage. Oxford: Oxford University Press Hudson, J. and S. Lowe (2009) Understanding the Policy Process. Bristol: Policy Press. Kennett, P. (ed.) (2004) A Handbook of Comparative Social Policy, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. Pierre, J. and B.G. Peters (2000) Governance, Politics and the State. Basingstoke: Macmillan. Pierson, P. (2000) Three Worlds of Welfare State Research. Comparative Political Studies 33: 791821.

Lecture 5 (Week 5): Analysing Continuity and Change in ISPP Timo Fleckenstein This lecture provides frameworks for analysing continuity and change in International Social and Public Policy. Path dependence theory, which enjoys great prominence in the field, emphasises that social and public policies tend to develop along established trajectories, displaying considerable resistance to paradigmatic change. This literature has been criticised for an inherent bias to stability, and we review different approaches that seek to address this stability bias of path dependence theory. Recent contributions in the literature emphasise the importance of ideas and discourse in social and public policy changing. We conclude with assessing welfare states’ capacity to ‘learn’ in order to better cope with socio-economic and socio-demographic challenges.

Guiding question: Can welfare states adapt to changes in society and the economy?

Essential readings Hall, P.A. (1993) ‘Policy Paradigms, Social Learning and the State: The Case of Economic Policymaking in Britain’, Comparative Politics, 24, 3, 275-96. Streeck, W. Thelen, K. (2005) ‘Institutional Change in Advanced Political Economies’ in Streeck, W., Thelen, K. (eds) Beyond Continuity: Institutional Change in Advanced Political Economies. Oxford: Oxford University Press. And for the seminar, please also read one of the following two readings exemplifying the continuity and change controversy in analyses of welfare capitalism: Fleckenstein, T., Lee, S.C. (2017) ‘The Politics of Labor Reform in Coordinated Welfare Capitalism: Comparing Sweden, Germany, and South Korea’, World Politics, 69, 1, 144-183. Thelen, K. (2012) ‘Varieties of Capitalism: Trajectories of Liberalization and the New Politics ...