| Transformations of the Welfare State |
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Seminar (MA) – Wintersemester 2015/16 [in englischer Sprache] Inhalt: The state is one of the „big structures“ (Charles Tilly) characterizing and distinguishing modern societies. The institutions and interventions of the welfare state govern these societies' public life and, at the same time, mold the everyday lives of their „ordinary“ citizens. The welfare state is an active force in structuring social inequality and in ordering social relations. As such, it is not a static structure, but is undergoing permanent - mostly path-dependent - change over time. The seminarf deals with the most recent changes in Western welfare state arrangements, following the competing (but often complementary) conceptualizations developed in comparative research over the last two decades: recommodification and marketization, defamilialisation and remoralization, Europeanization and globalization. The seminar's guiding question will be if all these processes of change, taken together, make up for a substantial transformation of modern „welfare capitalism“ (Gösta Esping-Andersen). |
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