Week - 1 |
The concept of welfare system |
Week - 2 |
Concept and practice of social welfare in the pre-modern era |
Week - 3 |
First social welfare practice of the modern state: British Poor Law |
Week - 4 |
The emergence of social policy practices and social rights |
Week - 5 |
New Deal order in the USA |
Week - 6 |
An overview: The classification of welfare systems |
Week - 7 |
Distinctive features of the liberal welfare systems |
Week - 8 |
USA and Britain as liberal welfare states |
Week - 9 |
Distinctive features of the conservative welfare system and Germany as a conservative welfare state |
Week - 10 |
Distinctive features of the social democratic welfare system and Sweden as a social democratic welfare state |
Week - 11 |
Change / transformation of capitalism and liberalism after 1968 |
Week - 12 |
The fall of the welfare state and transformation of welfare systems |
Week - 13 |
Future of social welfare |
Week - 14 |
Current debates |