OVERVIEW

The course outlines the main features of italian social policies in a comparative perspective, examining the macro phases that have led to the current configuration of the welfare state in Italy, with particular regard to pension policies, labor policies, health policies and social policies. The process of territorial reorganization of Italian social policies on a regional scale is also examined.

AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course aims to provide students with basic concepts on public policy analysis and models for analyzing social policies in the european, italian and local contexts from a historical-comparative perspective; specific knowledge about historical evolution and the current configuration of Italian social policies, with particular regard to pension policies, labor policies, health policies and social-welfare policies; basic skills in social policies evaluation.

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course aims to provide students with basic concepts on public policy analysis and models for analyzing social policies in the european, italian and local contexts from a historical-comparative perspective; specific knowledge about historical evolution and the current configuration of Italian social policies, with particular regard to pension policies, labor policies, health policies and social-welfare policies; basic skills in social policies evaluation.

TEACHING METHODS

Lectures and discussions with students

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

The following content will be treated

1. Social needs, risks, social policies and welfare states; assistance, insurance and social security; historical welfare state evolution; the welfare state as a socio-political system; welfare models and welfare regimes.

2. Fundamental concepts of pension policy; evolution of old age protection policies; demographic changes and crisis of the systems of protection of the old age; retirement reforms of the 1990s and 2000s and transition to multi-pillar systems.

3. Fundamental concepts of labor policy; birth and evolution of the original model of labor policies; socio-economic and industrial transformations and new labor policy models in Italy; regulation and governance of labor policies between european efforts, national framework and local impulses.

4. Fundamental concepts of health policy; origin of health systems in the post-war period and SSN in Italy; cost increases, crisis in health systems and containment strategies and rationalization of spending; healthcare reforms of the 1990s and 2000s.

5. Fundamental concepts of social welfare: social assistance and its role in the welfare state; actors of social welfare, subsidiarity and welfare mix; evolution of social assistance in Italy; socio-economic transformations, new needs and new social-welfare policies; reforms of the 1990s and 2000s; regional social assistance systems; regional policies for the elderly and services for the elderly not self-sufficient; governance and fragmentation of policies for immigration and school segregation; financial dimension and fragmentation of Italian social policies.

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

Attending students

M. Ferrera, 2012, Le politiche sociali, Il Mulino, Bologna (all)

Kazepov Y. e Barberis E., 2013, Il welfare frammentato. Le articolazioni regionali delle politiche sociali italiane, Carocci edutore, Roma, (introduction, conclusion and five essays at the student's choice, one for each part of the volume).

Materials available on Aulaweb.

Non-attending students

M. Ferrera, 2012, Le politiche sociali, Il Mulino, Bologna (all)

Kazepov Y. e Barberis E., 2013, Il welfare frammentato. Le articolazioni regionali delle politiche sociali italiane, Carocci edutore, Roma, (all).

Tuorto D., 2017, Esclusione sociale. Uno sguardo sociologico, Pearson, (chapter 1 and other 3 chapters at the student's choice)

Materials available on Aulaweb.

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

CLAUDIO TORRIGIANI (President)

AGOSTINO MASSA

MAURO PALUMBO

STEFANO POLI

LESSONS

LESSONS START

I semester from September, 18th to December, 7th 2017 (12 weeks)
II semester from February, 26th to May, 18th 2018 (12 weeks)

Class schedule

SOCIAL POLICY

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

The exam is written. The student who passes the written test enters the next call for an oral question and the registration of the vote.

ASSESSMENT METHODS

The written test is a prerequisite to access to oral examination. Through the written test, the teacher verifies the acquisition by the student of the fundamental concepts covered in the teaching and the ability to relate to each other, the mastery of the knowledge and the technical language and competence in applying what she/he has learned in real problems. The oral examination is an integration of the written test. 

Exam schedule