CODE | 65051 |
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ACADEMIC YEAR | 2022/2023 |
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SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINARY SECTOR | SPS/07 |
LANGUAGE | Italian |
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SEMESTER | 1° Semester |
PREREQUISITES |
Prerequisites
You can take the exam for this unit if you passed the following exam(s):
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TEACHING MATERIALS | AULAWEB |
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 evaluation of social policies as learning tool for the stakeholders of the implementation system: fundamental concepts, approaches, method.
The Italian welfare state, in comparison with other European models of welfare state. Policies of social assistance: the concept of assistance, its history, functioning and further development.
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.
Frontal lessons are alternated with discussions with students and possible proposals of activities in groups based on the methedology of the TBL.
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. 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. 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. 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. 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.
6. Evaluation of social policies: fundamental concepts, approaches, method; design of evalutative research; theory driven evaluation and participatory evaluation
To be confirmed at the course starting:
Ferrera M. (a cura di), 2019, Le politiche sociali. Terza edizione, Il Mulino, Bologna
Torrigiani C., 2010, Valutare per apprendere. Capitale sociale e teoria del programma. FrancoAngeli, Milano
Materials available on Aulaweb.
Office hours: By appointment, after sending an email to claudio.torrigiani@unige.it, at the DISFOR, Corso Podestà, 2, 3rd floor room 3A6 or on the Teams platform.
CLAUDIO TORRIGIANI (President)
STEFANO POLI
VALERIA SILVIA PANDOLFINI (Substitute)
First semester
Written test.
Through the written test the teacher verifies the student's acquisition of the fundamental concepts dealt with during the course, the ability to relate them to each other, the mastery of notions and technical language.
Date | Time | Location | Type | Notes |
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12/12/2022 | 09:30 | GENOVA | Scritto | |
09/01/2023 | 09:30 | GENOVA | Scritto | |
30/01/2023 | 09:30 | GENOVA | Scritto | |
08/05/2023 | 09:30 | GENOVA | Scritto | |
22/05/2023 | 09:30 | GENOVA | Scritto | |
12/06/2023 | 09:30 | GENOVA | Scritto | |
26/06/2023 | 09:30 | GENOVA | Scritto | |
11/09/2023 | 09:30 | GENOVA | Scritto |
Information for students with disabilities or specific learning disabilities: https://unige.it/disabilita-dsa
SOCIAL POLICY