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Varieties of Democratic Capitalism in Europe and North AmericaCourse Session CalendarTransAtlantic Masters ProgramPolitical Science 745Fall 2008Varieties of Democratic Capitalism in Europe and North AmericaTuesdays and Thursdays 3:30-4:45Global Education Center 3024John D. StephensCenter for European Studies3211 FedEx Global Education CenterOffice hours: Tuesdays 2-3:30 and Wednesdays 4-5:30962-4634, 932-1168Email: [email protected] Description: The course will examine the development of different types of welfare states in Europe and North America. The course will be structured around the concept of "welfare states regimes", as defined in Gøsta Esping-Andersen in his path breaking book, Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism. We will also explore how the three welfare state regimes defined by Esping-Andersen interlock with different "labor market regimes", systems of wage bargaining and employment and labor relations, and, in turn, how these labor market and welfare state regimes constitute elements of different "varieties of capitalism". The course moves back and forth from broad conceptual issues to examination of developments in five countries which represent the different welfare state types: the United States and Britain as liberal welfare states, Sweden as a social democratic welfare state, Germany as a Christian democratic welfare state, and Italy as a southern or Mediterranean variant of the Christian democratic regime. The course will focus above all on how social and political forces shaped the development of the economic policies aimed at securing economic growth and employment and of social policies aimed at providing social security, combating poverty, and effecting redistribution. In addition, we will examine how demographic and international economic pressures of the past two decades have transformed the regimes. For the European countries, by far the most important "international economic pressure" has beenthe process European integration, so we will devote several sessions to understanding the impact of this historically unique development. Teaching Methods and Evaluation: The course alternates between lectures and discussion. Three or four students will lead each discussion section. The student's grade in the course will depend on four elements: two take home exams (20% each), one essay (40%), and class participation. The essay examines the welfare state regime of one country not covered in the course comparing it to both the general type of welfare state regime it represents (liberal, Christian democratic, or social democratic) and the specific representative (US, UK, Germany, Italy, or Sweden) which we have studied in depth. The essay can cover any country in North America or Europe including all current members of the EU and Switzerland and Norway. The essay should be 5000 words long.Readings: You should purchase the following books at the Student Store:Gøsta Esping-Andersen, The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism, Princeton University Press, 1990 (0-691-02857-5)Gøsta Esping-Andersen et al., Why we need a New Welfare State, Oxford, 2002 (90-19-925643-8)Neil Gilbert and Rebecca A. Van Voorhis (eds.), Changing Patterns of Social Protection, Transaction Publishers, 2003 (0-7658-0989-3)Janet Gornick and Marcia Meyers, Families That Work, Sage, 2003 (0-87154-356-7)Evelyne Huber and John D. Stephens, Development and Crisis of the Welfare State, University of Chicago Press, 2001 (0-226-35647-7)Robert Putnam, Making Democracy Work, Princeton University Press, 1993 (0-691-03738-8)W. Phillips Shively, The Craft of Political Research, Prentice Hall, 2005. 6th edition. (0-13-117440-1)Ronald Tiersky and Erik Jones, Europe Today: A Twenty-first Century Introduction, 3rd Edition, Rowman and Littlefield, 2007 (978-0-7425-5501-3)Most of the other readings are on e-reserve, e-journals, in Blackboard, or available on the internet. The articles marked "e" are on e-reserve. The articles marked "b" are in Blackboard.For all of the countries we study, the European Industrial Relations Foundation website (http://eiro.eurofound.ie/) is an excellent source for information on industrial relations, the economy, and government policy. The Journal of European Social Policy is also an excellent source for up to date information on social policy developments in Europe. Course Session CalendarAugust 19 Introduction August 21 Lecture: The Three Worlds of Welfare CapitalismEsping-Andersen, Chapters 1, 2, 5, 6John Myles and Jill Quadagno, "Political Theories of the Welfare State," Social Science Review, March, 2002. b Read pages 34-41. We will read the rest latter. Huber and Stephens, Chapters 1-2.August 26 Discussion August 28 Lecture: Party Systems and Governmental Structures S.M, Lipset and Stein Rokkan, "Cleavage Structures, Party Systems, and Voter Alignments." Pp. 1-64 in S.M. Lipset and Stein Rokkan (eds.), Party 2Systems and Voter Alignments, Free Press, 1967. (concentrate on pages 26-50) bEllen Immergut, "The Rules of the Game: The Logic of Health Policy Making in France,Switzerland and Sweden." In Sven Steinmo, et al. (eds.), Structuring Politics: Historical Institutionalism in Comparative Analysis, Cambridge, 1992 eSeptember 2 DiscussionSeptember 4 Lecture: Wage bargaining and the Varieties of CapitalismPeter Hall and David Soskice, "An Introduction to Varieties of Capitalism.' In Peter Hall and David Soskice (eds.) Varieties of Capitalism: The Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage. Oxford, 2001. bHuber and Stephens, Chapter 4.September 9 DiscussionSeptember 11 Lecture: United KingdomHopkin in Tiersky and JonesBauld, Judge, and Patterson in Gilbert and Van VoorhisMartin Rhodes, "Restructuring the British Welfare State: Between Domestic Constraints and Global Imperatives." In Fritz W. Scharpf and Vivien A. Schmidt (eds ) Welfare and Work in the Open Economy. Volume II. Diverse Responses to Common Challenges. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. bSeptember 16 Discussion September 18 Lecture: SwedenEinhorn and Logue in Tiersky and JonesSwedish Information Service fact sheets political parties and the Swedish systems of government. b Hort in Gilbert and Van VoorhisMats Benner and Torben B. Vad, “Sweden and Denmark.” In Fritz W. Scharpf and Vivien A. Schmidt (eds.) Welfare and Work in the Open Economy. Volume II. Diverse Responses to Common Challenges. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. bHuber and


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