Syllabus/achievement requirements

READING LIST

All texts will be available in compendium

Anttonen, A, Johansson, S., Leira, A. (2007): “Gendered citizenship: the care of young children”, in Lister, R.M. et al. Gendering Citizenship in Western Europe. Bristol: Policy Press. Pp. 109-137. (28 pages)

Bettio, F. and Plantenga, J. (2004): “Comparing Care Regimes in Europe”, Feminist Economics, 10:1, 85 -113. (28 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).

Ferrera, M. (2000): “Reconstructing the Welfare State in Southern Europe”, in Kuhnle, S. ed. Survival of the European Welfare State, pp 166 -181. (15 pages).

Esping-Andersen, G. (1990): The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism. Cambridge: Polity Press. pp. 1-35. (35 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 Leira, A. (eds), Politicising Parenthood in Scandinavia. Gender relations in welfare states. Bristol: Policy Press. Pp. 217-239. (22 pages).

Holmwood, J. (2000): "Three pillars of welfare state theory. T.H. Marshall, Karl Polanyi and Alva Myrdal in Defence of the National Welfare State", European Journal of Social Theory. 3:23-50. 27 pages.

Huber, E. and Stephens, J. D. (2000): “Partisan Governance, Women’s Employment and the Social Democratic Service State”, American Sociological Review, vol 65, pp 323-342, (20 pages).

Kangas, O. and Palme, J. (2005): Social policy and economic development in the Nordic countries. Chippenham and Eastbourne. Palgrave Macmillan. Chs 2,12 (60 pages):

  • Ch 2. Kangas, O. and J. Palme, 'Coming Late - Catching Up: The Formation of a 'Nordic Model'. pp 17-59 (42 pages)

  • 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. (18 pages)

Kvist, J. and Saari,J. (2007): The Europeanisation of Social Protection, ch 1, Bristol: Policy Press. (ca 20 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): “Faces of Inequality: Gender, class and pattern of inequalities in different types of welfare states”, Social Politics, 7 (2): 27-91, 64 pages.

Leira, A. (2002): Working Parents and the Welfare State. Family Change and Policy Reform in Scandinavia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ch 2, pp 15 - 44 (30 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.(2003): “Gender and Welfare State Change”, European Societies, 331-356. (25 pages).

Madsen, P.M. (2006): “How can it possibly fly? The paradox of a dynamic labour market in a Scandinavian welfare state”, in Campbell, J. A. et al (eds.), National Identity and a Variety of Capitalism: The Case of Denmark. (ca 40 pages).

Orloff, A. (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).

Rubery, J & Grimshaw, D. (2003): The organization of employment. An international perspective, ch. 4, “The state, the family and gender: from domestic work to wage employment”p 77-105. (28 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 670 pages.

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

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