SPP139 The "Swedish Model" of Public Policy

Fakulta sociálních studií
jaro 2009
Rozsah
1/1/0. 5 kr. Ukončení: zk.
Vyučující
prof. Steven Saxonberg, Ph.D. (přednášející)
PhDr. Jana Válková, Ph.D. (přednášející)
Garance
prof. PhDr. Libor Musil, CSc.
Katedra sociální politiky a sociální práce – Fakulta sociálních studií
Rozvrh
Čt 19. 2. až Pá 15. 5. každou sudou středu 14:00–15:40 U23; a St 18. 2. 14:00–17:40 U43, St 25. 2. 13:40–15:50 U43, St 4. 3. 14:00–17:40 U43, St 11. 3. 13:40–17:40 U43, St 22. 4. 13:40–15:50 Aula, St 29. 4. 14:00–17:40 Aula, St 6. 5. 13:40–15:40 Aula, St 13. 5. 13:40–15:40 U41
Omezení zápisu do předmětu
Předmět je určen pouze studentům mateřských oborů.
Mateřské obory/plány
Cíle předmětu
By the end of the course, students should have a basic understanding of how the Social Democrats were able to acheive such hegemony in Sweden. They should also be able to analyze the basic dynamics behind the Sweden welfare state and its most recent changes.
Osnova
  • Intro lecture about the course, social democratic dominance
  • Seminar on social democratic dominance, lecture on the people’s home and Keynes, Swedish style
  • Seminar on the People’s home, Lecture on the Rehn-Meidner model and labor negotiations
  • Seminar on labor market, Lecture on corporatism
  • Seminar on corporatism, lecture on family policy
  • Seminar on family policy, Lecture on retrenchment
  • Seminar on retrenchment
  • Seminar on final papers
Literatura
  • Tilton, Tim The Political Theory of Swedish Social Democracy (Oxford: Oxford University Press) chahpters 8, 9 11
  • Rothstein, Bo Social classes and political institutions : the roots of Swedish corporatism (Uppsala : Maktutredningen, 1988)
  • Saxonberg, S. “The Swedish Model is Doing Well Despite Neo-Liberal Attacks” Problemy Polityki Spolecznej vol. 7, 2004.
  • Saxonberg, S. “The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same? The Swedish Model after the Center-Right Electoral Victory in 2006” forthcoming in Problemy Polityki Spolecznej, nr. 11, 2008.
  • Pempel, T. J. Ed., Uncommon democracies : the one-party dominant regimes (Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1990)
  • Ginsburg, Norman Divisions of Welfare (London: Sage, 1992), ch. 1 & 2.
  • Williamson, Peter J. 1989. Corporatism in Perspective: An Introductory Guide to Corporatist Theory (Sage) selected chapters.
  • Larsson, Torbjörn & Bäck, Henry, Governing and governance in Sweden:The social democratic state : the Swedish model and the bureaucratic problem of social reforms (Lund : Studentlitteratur, 2008)
Metody hodnocení
Students will write a short paper at the end of the course where they reflect on the Swedish model and discuss what they think are the advantages and disadvantages of the model as well as what lessons the Czech Repulic (or their home country) could learn from the Swedish experience. The paper should be about 4 pages (around 2000 words).
Vyučovací jazyk
Angličtina
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Studijní materiály
Předmět je vyučován každoročně.
Předmět je zařazen také v obdobích jaro 2010, podzim 2010.