Dynamics of International Social Policy
Key Facts
| Module Code |
SOCI4085 |
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| Module Convenor |
Martin Heneghan |
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| Teaching Pattern |
Semester
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| Semester Taught |
Spring Semester |
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| Method of Assessment |
Written Assignment |
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| Pre Requisites |
Please check suitability of course with module convenor
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| Module Administrator |
Tarine Felix
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This module introduces students to comparative analyses of different welfare state models and approaches to social and public policy; institutions, issues and debates in international social and public policy; and methods of cross-country comparative analysis. Topics include:
- Perspectives of international social policy
- Welfare state typologies and cross-national comparisons
- International institutions, standards and goals
- The European Union
- Social Policy in less developed countries
- Globalisation and welfare states
- International migration and the boundaries of welfare
- Discrimination in a multicultural world
- International cooperation, policy learning and policy transfer
- Comparative research methods