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Syllabus The Political Theory of the Welfare - 56859
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Last update 03-10-2021
HU Credits: 2

Degree/Cycle: 2nd degree (Master)

Responsible Department: Political Science

Semester: 1st Semester

Teaching Languages: Hebrew

Campus: Mt. Scopus

Course/Module Coordinator: Shlomi Segall

Coordinator Email: shlomi.segall@mail.huji.ac.il

Coordinator Office Hours: Mondays 10-11

Teaching Staff:
Prof Shlomi Segall

Course/Module description:
Ethical aspects of the welfare state, its history, and its justification.

Course/Module aims:
Understanding the history and moral basis of the welfare state.

Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
Basic knowledge and understanding of the history of the idea of welfare policy, as well its justification, advantages and disadvantages.

Attendance requirements(%):
100

Teaching arrangement and method of instruction: Frontal and discussions.

Course/Module Content:
1. Three models of welfare policy

2. The Right wing critique of welfare policy.

3. The critique from the left.

4. From Charity to Welfare.

5. The Communitarian Justification.

6. Avoiding Humiliation and Stigma.

7. Constitutionalising Welfare Rights

8. Welfare and Gender.

9. Welfare and Multi Culturalism.

10. The Welfare State in a Post-Productivist Age I

11. The Welfare State in a Post-Productivist Age II

12. Education and Integration.

Required Reading:

Gosta Esping –Andersen, The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism (Oxford: polity, 1990), pp. 18-34
25 באוקטובר: ביקורת מימין
חומר הקריאה:

Friedrich A. Hayek, The Constitution of Liberty (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1960), chapter 17
1 בנובמבר: ביקורת משמאל

חומר הקריאה:


Jurgen Habermas, ‘The New Obscurity: The Crisis of the Welfare State and the Exhaustion of Utopian Energies’, in his The New Conservatism (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1989), Chapter 2

II. הצדקות לרווחה

8 בנובמבר: מסעד לרווחה - רווחה כזכות אזרחית
חומר הקריאה:

T. H. Marshal, ‘Citizenship and Social Class’, reprinted in T. H. Marshal and Tom Bottmore, Citizenship and Social Class (London: Pluto Press, 1992), pp. 8-17, 27-51

15 בנובמבר: קהילה
חומר הקריאה:

Michael Walzer, Spheres of Justice: A Defense of Pluralism and Equality (New York: Basic Books, 1983), chapter 3
רשות:
Richard M. Titmuss, The Gift Relationship (London: Allen & Unwin, 1970), chapter 14

22 בנובמבר: צדקה

חומר הקריאה:

Jeremey Waldron, ‘Welfare and the Images of Charity’, The Philosophical Quarterly 36 (1986), 463-482

29 בנובמבר: השפלה וסטיגמה
חומר הקריאה:

Avishai Margalit, The Decent Society (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1996), chapter 14

III. מימדים של רווחה

6 בדצמבר: זכויות חברתיות חוקתיות
חומר הקריאה:

Cecile Fabre, ‘Constitutionalising Social Rights’, The Journal of Political Philosophy 6 (3) (1998), 263-284

13 בדצמבר: רווחה ומגדר

חומר הקריאה:
Carole Pateman, ‘The Patriarchal Welfare State’, in Amy Gutmann (ed.) Democracy and the Welfare State (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1988), chapter 10

20 בדצמבר: רווחה ורב תרבותיות

חומר הקריאה:
Will Kymlicka and Keith Banting, Multiculturalism and the Welfare State (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), chapter

VI. רווחה, עבודה, וחינוך

27 בדצמבר: מדינת הרווחה בעידן פוסט-יצרני
חומר הקריאה:

Philippe Van Parijs, ‘Why Surfers Should be Fed: The Liberal Case for an Unconditional Basic Income’, Philosophy and Public Affairs 20 (1991), 101-131

3 בינואר: מדינת הרווחה בעידן פוסט-יצרני – המשך.

Robert E. Goodin, ‘Work and Welfare: Towards a Post-Productivist Welfare Regime’, British Journal of Political Science, 31 (2001), 13-39

10 בינואר: חינוך, שוויון, ואינטגרציה


Elizabeth Anderson, ‘Fair Opportunity in Education: A Democratic Equality Perspective’, Ethics 117 (2007) 595-622

Additional Reading Material:

Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 0 %
Presentation 0 %
Participation in Tutorials 0 %
Project work 100 %
Assignments 0 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 0 %

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