| CODE | SWP3703 | |||||||||
| TITLE | Globalization, Restructuring and Europeanization in Social Policy | |||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 03 - Years 2, 3, 4 in Modular Undergraduate Course | |||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 6 | |||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 4 | |||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Social Policy and Social Work | |||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | All welfare states are strongly influenced by international factors, like the globalisation of markets and mounting challenges to sustainability. Students will be exposed to information and analysis around these changes and their effects on welfare states, as well as these states' efforts to make appropriate and effective responses to them, mainly through widespread and varied restructuring of welfare, as well as the belonging to supranational organisations, especially the European Union. Within the latter they cooperate in shaping particular aspects of welfare, both in response to the above changes as well as to offer good service to their citizens. The European and the Maltese context will be given special attention in the assessment of both situation and policy responses. Study-unit Aims: Students will be introduced to and made aware of the processes and effects of globalization and EU level processes, including that of restructuring and other effects and responses to these processes. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Demonstrate awareness and critical understanding of the process of globalization, and the effect it has on welfare states; - Demonstrate awareness and critical understanding of the process of restructuring as covering such responses as welfare and management reform, service outsourcing, changes in what government level or other entity provides and who pays for welfare, as well as the introduction of market competition under various models in the provision of social welfare; - Show a correct grasp of EU’s various types of influence on members’ social policies, as well as their limits and the variety of effects and responses to this influence; - Demonstrate reflection on the ways that are open and commendable for the future development of welfare states given the above processes and the circumstances to which they respond; - Show that they are able to apply this understanding to particular welfare states, especially Malta. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Show their ability to criticise, recommend and plan policies so as to offer valid applications of and responses to the above processes as part of the development, implementation and evaluation of social policy; - Demonstrate their ability to manage social services in an environment of restructuring, market competition and contractual arrangements. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: Main readings: Hantrais, Linda (2009). Social policy in the European Union. UK, Macmillan. Yeates, Nicola (ed.) (2014). Understanding global social policy. UK, Policy Press. Mishra, Ramesh (1999). Globalisation and the welfare state. UK, Elgar. Other readings: Dinan, Desmond (2014). Origins and evolution of the European Union. UK, Oxford University Press. Mau, Steffen and Verwiebe Roland (2010). European societies: mapping structure and change. UK, Policy Press. Powell, Martin (2007). Understanding the mixed economy of welfare. UK, Policy Press. Giddens, Anthony (2007). Europe in the global age. UK, Polity Press. Steger, Manfred B. (2013). Globalisation – a very short introduction. UK, Oxford. Le Grand, Julian and Bartlett, Will (1993). Quasi-markets and social policy. UK, Macmillan. Clarke, John, Cochrane, Allan and McLaughlin, Eugene (1994). Managing social policy. UK, Sage. Michie, Jonathan (ed) (2011). The Handbook of Globalisation 2ed. UK, Edward Elgar. Cousin s M (2005). European Welfare States. London: Sage. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture and Tutorial | |||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Sue Vella |
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The availability of optional units may be subject to timetabling constraints. Units not attracting a sufficient number of registrations may be withdrawn without notice. It should be noted that all the information in the description above applies to study-units available during the academic year 2023/4. It may be subject to change in subsequent years. |
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