Universität Wien

210092 SE M7(a)/Diss/G6: SE VertiefungsSE - Comperative Social Policy (2010S)

10.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 21 - Politikwissenschaft
Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung

Preliminary meeting (Vorbesprechung):
Friday 26 March 2010; 9:00-12:00 SEM31 Juridicum
Block:
Fr 04.June 2010 von 09:00-18:00 SEM31 Juridicum
Sa 05.June 2010 von 09:00-18:00 SEM31 Juridicum

Jochen Clasen
Professor of Comparative Social Policy
School for Social and Political Science
University of Edinburgh
15A George Square
Chrystal Macmillan Building
Edinburgh EH8 9LD
Scotland
Email: jochen.clasen@ed.ac.uk

An/Abmeldung

Hinweis: Ihr Anmeldezeitpunkt innerhalb der Frist hat keine Auswirkungen auf die Platzvergabe (kein "first come, first served").

Details

max. 50 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch

Lehrende

Termine

Zur Zeit sind keine Termine bekannt.

Information

Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

Overview
The course provides an overview of current debates within comparative social policy. We review relevant theoretical aspects of welfare state retrenchment and reform as well as methodological issues in relation to the conceptualisation and quantitative as well as qualitative measurement of change within social policy. Finally we will focus on particular policy fields and assess reform trajectories in those domains. The overall aim is to provide a concise introduction to contemporary comparative social policy analysis. Some basic knowledge of social policy scholarship would be useful.

Most of the literature is in English, with some additional German literature as additional sources.

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

Concretely students are required to fulfil three criteria for passing the course:

1. Paper summaries

- read and send to jochen.clasen@ed.ac.uk paper summaries (of between one and two pages each) for 2 papers (to be announced at the Vorbesprechung) The deadline for these summaries is 23 April 2010. Those who fail to submit these summaries will be deemed to have withdrawn from the seminar.

- read and send to jochen.clasen@ed.ac.uk paper summaries of the remaining eight papers by Friday 28th of May 2010. Those who fail to submit these summaries will be deemed to have withdrawn from the seminar.

Please send these summaries as two linked word documents, i.e. a single document by 23rd April 2010 and another by 28th May 2010. Please use your surname and 'Vienna10' in the document title.

2. Presentation

In addition students are expected to make one or two short oral presentations based on one of their summaries at the seminar on 4/5 June. Students will act either as paper presenter or discussant of a particular text. These roles will be allocated after 23rd April

3. Essay (Hausarbeit)

Students are required to write a seminar paper to one of a number of topics which will be presented at the Vorbesprechung. The seminar paper of 8-10 pages (excluding the title page and list of contents) must be submitted to jochen.clasen@ed.ac.uk by the deadline: 30. Nov. 2010. There will be no subsequent opportunity to submit the seminar paper.

Half of the seminar grade will derive from the summary papers, which must be made in English. The other half of the seminar grade will be based on the seminar paper.

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

Prüfungsstoff

The seminar is run as a 'block seminar' and will be held in English. Some knowledge of statistical analysis is essential. It is based on compulsory reading and discussion of ten core texts for each of the topics covered. Participants are expected to undertake the required reading prior to the block seminar and to engage actively in seminar discussions. They are also required to submit short paper summaries on each of the ten texts prior to the June seminar.

Vorbesprechung
At the preliminary meeting (Vorbesprechung) there will be an introduction to the seminar's aims and objectives, organisation and assessment requirements. Those who fail to attend this meeting without having provided an appropriate prior explanation by email to jochen.clasen@ed.ac.uk will be deemed to have withdrawn from the seminar. At the Vorbesprechung essay topic will be discussed and additional literature suggested.

Literatur

The compulsory reading list will be presented at the Vorbesprechung.

Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

Letzte Änderung: Mo 07.09.2020 15:38