Course code

RIA6002.YK

old course code

RIA6002

Course title in Estonian

Heaoluriigi mudelid

Course title in English

Comparative Welfare State

ECTS credits

6.0

Assessment form

Examination

lecturer of 2022/2023 Spring semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

lecturer of 2023/2024 Autumn semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

Course aims

To provide opportunities to gain theoretical and empirical
knowledge about the basic features, developments and outcomes
of different welfare regimes to support the capability to analyze
welfare policies in different contexts.

Brief description of the course

The themes covered during the course are:

An overview of the development of welfare states. A welfare state
as a social system. Typology of welfare states (Esping-Andersen,
Titmuss). How different models of welfare states cope with their
main tasks. Interaction between the labor market and the welfare
state. Models of family in a welfare state model. Main systems of
social insurance. Health service regulation systems. Housing
policy. Controlling poverty and the suppressed in the welfare
state. Impact of the EU and globalization on the welfare states.
Postmodern welfare state. Public opinion and politics of welfare
states.
We meet on 11 Fridays whereas
- nine of our meetings are lecture-discussions (often with
preparatory reading suggestions; see Moodle); and
- two are seminars (see a separate seminar tasks
descriptions on Moodle).
See exact dates and times in the section of Schedule and Activities
+ on Moodle:
https://moodle.edu.ee/enrol/index.php?id=20256
Course ends with written exam for which the completion of
seminar tasks are prerequisites

Learning outcomes in the course

Upon completing the course the student:
- knows the basid structure, developmental trends and basic models of welfare states;
- knows the terminology and literature of welfare states.

Teacher

Triin Lauri

Additional information

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