Edinburgh 2007
Reading list
Caroline de la Porte
Lecture A: A European Social Model?
de la Porte, C., Pochet, P., and Room, G. (2001) “Social Benchmarking, Policy-Making and New Governance in the EU”, Journal of European Social Policy, Vol.11, No.4, pp.291-307 [download]
Lecture B: Governing Social Europe through the OMC
Zeitlin, J. (2005). The open method of coordination in action: theoretical promise, empirical realities, reform strategy. In J. Zeitlin, & P. Pochet with L. Magnusson (Eds.), The Open Method of Coordination in action: the European employment and social inclusion strategies (pp.447-503). Brussels: P.I.E.-Peter Lang.[download]
Jorgen Goul Andersen
Lecture C: Analysing Welfare State Change
OECD Employment Outlook 2006 pp.23-27, 47, 56-72, 80-100, 117-126, 158-169, 174-185, 190-194,197-201. http://www.oecd.org/ and search in publications for OECD Employment Outlook (most University Libraries should subscribe to this publication). Anyone who can’t access this can pick up a copy on arrival.
Jorgen Goul Andersen: Conceptualizing Welfare State Change [download]
Jorgen Goul Andersen: Conceptualizing Welfare State Change (Overhead) [download]
Lecture D: Economic challenges and the labour market: survey of evidence and the Danish case
As Above
Jochen Clasen and Daniel Clegg
Lecture E: Describing Change in LMP
J Clasen and N. Siegel (eds) (2007) Investigating welfare state change.
The dependent variable problem in comparative analysis, Cheltenham:
Edward Elgar. [download]
J. Clasen and D. Clegg (2006) Beyond Activation in European Societies 8:4 (2006) pp: 527-553. [download]
Wim van Oorschot
Lecture G: Social Policy Data for Comparative Research
Oorschot, W. van, with J. Clasen (2002) 'Changing principles in European social security', in: European Journal of Social Security , vol. 4, nr. 2, pp. 89-116 http://spitswww.uvt.nl/~worschot/
Lecture I: Income Protection: General Principles and Practices
As Above
Bruno Palier
Lecture H: Understanding Welfare Reform
The last chapter (conclusion) of Pierson, Paul. 2001. The new Politics of the Welfare state, Oxford University Press
Anyone who cannot access this can pick it up on arrival.
Lecture J: The Politics of Reform in Bismarckian Welfare Systems
Bruno Palier: The Politics of Reforms in Bismarckian Welfare Systems, Revue française des Affaires sociales,, special issue,Social Welfare Reforms in Europe. Challenges and Strategies in Continental and Southern Europe, January-march,2006 pp.47-72. [download]
Ingela Naumann
Lecture K: Care Regimes and their Interplay with Labour Markets
Kimberley J. Morgan (2005): The Production of Child Care: How Labour
Markets Shape Social Policy and Vice Versa, in: Social Politics,
Summer 2005, 243-263. [download]
Alison Smith
Lecture L: Using Large Data Sets in Comparative Policy Analysis
Child Poverty in Perspective: An Overview of Child Well-Being in Rich
Countries”, UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, Report Card 7 –
http://www.unicef-icdc.org/
Further/alternative reading:
Gornick, J. C., Meyers M. K. and Ross, K. E. (1997) "Supporting the
Employment of Mothers: Policy Variation Across Fourteen Welfare States"
Journal of European Social Policy 7: 45-70.
Giuliano Bonoli
Lecture M: Studying Social Policy in Time
Paul Pierson, Politics in time, 2004, pp 1-16
(introduction)
For those who cannot access this book, a copy of the relevant chapter will be available on arrival.
Lecture N: The Politics of Pension Reform
Recommended reading: Bonoli, G. (2003) Two worlds of pension reform in western Europe, Comparative Politics
Richard Parry
Lecture O: Scotland within the UK and EU: the Impact of Scottish Devolution
Social Security under devolution in the United Kingdom. Published in Jef van Langendonck ed, The Right to Social Security, (Antwerp: Intersentia 2007) pp 109-119 [download]