Syllabus/achievement requirements

READING LIST

*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).

* Ellingsæter, A. L.(2000): "Welfare states, labour markets and gender relations in transition" i Boye, T.P. and Leira, A. (eds.): Gender. Welfare state and the Market: Towards a new division of labour. P. 89 - 110. (22 pages).

*Esping-Andersen, Gösta (1990): The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism. Cambridge: Polity Press. pp. 1-35. (35 pages).

*Esping-Andersen, G (1999): The Social Foundations of Postindustrial Economies. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (ch 5) pp 73-94. (21 pages).

*Esping-Andersen, G. (2000): "A welfare state for the 21st century". Report to the Portuguese presidency, March. Pp1-39.

*Esping-Andersen, G. et al (2002): Why we need a new welfare state. Oxford: Oxford University Press, ch. 2. Pp 26-67 (41 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).

*Haataja, A. and A. Nyberg (2006): "Diverging paths? The dual-earner/dual-carer model in Finland and Sweden in the 1990s". In Ellingsæter, A.L. and A. Leira (eds), Politicising Parenthood in Scandinavia. Gender relations in welfare states. Bristol: Policy Press. Pp. 217-239. (22 pages).

Kangas, O. and J. Palme, (2005): Social policy and economic development in the Nordic countries. Chippenham and Eastbourne. Palgrave Macmillan. Chs 1,2,3,12, (100 pages):

=Ch 1. Kangas, O. and J. Palme, 'Social policy and economic development in the Nordic countries: An Introduction'. (pp 1-16).

=Ch 2. Kangas, O. and J. Palme, 'Coming Late - Catching Up: The Formation of a 'Nordic Model'. (pp 17-59)

=Ch. 4. Anttonen, A. 'Empowering Social Policy: The Role of Social Care Services in Modern Welfare States'. (pp 88-117)

=Ch.12. Kangas, O. and J. Palme,'Does the Most Brilliant Future of the 'Nordic Model' Have to be in the Past?' (pp 281-299)

*Kautto, M. et al (eds)(1999): Nordic Social Policy. Changing Welfare States. London and New York: Routledge. Ch 1 (18 pages).

*Kildal, N. and Kuhnle, S. (2005): The Normative Foundations of Welfare States. London: Routledge. Ch 2, pp 13-33(20 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).

Leira, Arnlaug, (2002): Working Parents and the Welfare State. Family Change and Policy Reform in Scandinavia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, chs. 1, 2, 6 (60 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).

*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).

*Ramsøy, N.R. (1987): "From necessity to choice: Social Change in Norway 1930-1980". In Erikson, R. et al (eds), The Scandinavian Model. Welfare States and Welfare Research, M.E.Sharpe Inc.: Armonk, N.Y. pp. 75-105 (30 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).

*Taylor-Gooby, P. (1991): "Welfare State Regimes and Welfare Citizenship", Journal of European Social Policy,1 (2) 93-105. (12 s)

About 660 pages.

* = in compendium. Compendium will be available at Kopiutsalget at the bookstore Gnist Akademika at Blindern. Please bring your student card.

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