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Mandatory readings: Lectures
Aghion, Philippe, Alberto Alesina, Francesco Trebbi: "Endogenous Political Institutions" in 2002. NBER Working Paper No. 9006.
Alesina, Alberto (2002): "The welfare state in the US and Europe: why so different?" in Rodolfo Debenedetti lecture, November 20th, powerpoint presentation.
Blake, C.H. & J.R. Adolino (2001) “The enactment of National Health Insurance: A Boolean Analysis of Twenty Advanced Industrial Countries” Journal of Health politics, Policy and Law vol 26 no.4: 679-708. (30 p.)Subscription
Richard Clayton and Jonas Pontusson(1998), “Welfare-State Retrenchment Revisited,” World Politics (1998), 51: 67-98. (22 p.)Subscription
Esping-Andersen G. (1990) “Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism”. Repreinted in: C. Pierson and F. G. Castles (2000) The Welfare State Reader. Cambridge: Polity Press. pp.154-169. (16 p.)
Esping-Andersen, G. (2003) Why no socialism anywhere? A reply to Alex Hicks and Lane Kenworthy. Socio-Economic Review, 1: 63-70. (8 p.)Subscription
Hall, P (1993) Policy paradigms, social learning and the state: The case of economic policy-making, Comparative Politics, 25: 275-296. (22 p.)Subscription
Howlett, M. and M. Ramesh (2004) Studying Public Policy, Policy Cycles and Policy Subsystems, Oxford University Press, Oxford (second edition), ch.2., PP. 20-49. (30 p.)
Immergut, E. (1992) “The Rules of the Game: The Logic of Health Policy-Making in France, Switzerland, and Sweden”, in Steinmo, S. & K. Thelen & F. Longstreth (eds.) Structuring Politics. Historical Institutionalism in Comparative Analysis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp.57-89. (33 p.)
Korpi, W. (1989) ‘Power, Politics, and State Autonomy in the Development of Social Citizenship: Social Rights during Sickness in Eighteen OECD Countries Since 1930’, American Sociological Review, 54, 3: 309-328 (20 p.)Subscription
Manin B 1989, Metamorphoses of representative government, in The principles of representative government, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ch6, pp. 193-235. (43 p.)
Mechanic D and Rochefort D (1996), Comparative medical systems, Annual Review of Sociology, 22: 239-270. (32 p.)Subscription
Moran, Michael: "Three Faces of the Health Care State" in Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law. 20:3(Fall 1995), pp. 767-81.
Olsen M (1982), The logic of collective action, in The Rise and Decline of Nations, Yale University Press, ch.2: pp. 17-35. (14 p.)
Pierson, P. (1996), The new politics of the welfare state. World Politics (48):143-179. (37 p.)Subscription
Rico A and Costa J (2005), “Power rather than path? The dynamics of institutional change under health care federalism”, Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 30, 1: 231-252. (23 p.)Subscription
Scharpf F (2000), Institutions in comparative policy research, Comparative Political Studies, 33/6-7, 762-790. (30 p.)Subscription (NOTE: Background, not compulsory reading)
Skocpol T (1980) Political response to capitalist crisis: Neomarxist theories of the state and the case of the New Deal, Politics and Society, 10, 2: 155-201. (47 p.)
Svallfors, S. (1998) "Worlds of Welfare and Attitudes to Redistribution: A Comparison of Eight Western Countries", European Sociological Review, 13, 2, pp. 283-304. (22 p.)Subscription
The Economist (2004): "Why welfare?" in Economic Focus. 11 March 2004 (2 p.).
White J (2003) Three meanings of state capacity: Or, why the federal government is most likely to lead on insurance access issues, Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 28, 2-3: 217-244. (27 p.)Subscription
Elective readings: Case-studies
Each student should choose one article from the list below in order to review it, through both an oral presentation and a written essay. It is advisable, but not compulsory, that all students read all the below case studies.
Allan, J. P. & Scruggs, L. (2004). Political Partisanship and Welfare State Reform in Advanced Industrial Societies. American Journal of Political Science 48 (3), 496-512. (17 p.)Subscription
Amable B., D. Gatti & J. Schumacher: "Welfare State Retrenchment: The Partisan Effect Revisited" in Discussion Paper No. 1995, Bonn:IZA (Institute of Labour Studies), Online.
Blom-Hansen J (2000) Still corporatism in Scandinavia?: A survey of recent empirical findings, Scandinavian Political Studies, 23, 2: 157-181. (25 p.)Subscription
Briggs A (1961) The welfare state in historical perspective, European Journal of Sociology 11, 2, 221-258. Reprinted in: F Castles and C Pierson (2000): A Welfare State Reader. Cambridge: Polity Press. (15 p.)
Garrett, G (1993), The politics of structural change. Comparative Political Studies, 25, 521-547. (27 p.)
Hoffman B (2003) Health Care Reform and Social Movements in the United States, American Journal of Public Health, 93, 1: pp.75-85. (11 p.)Subscription
Jacobs L (2001) Manipulators and manipulation: public opinion in a representative democracy, Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 26, 6: 1361-1374. (14 p.)Subscription
Laugesen, M: "Why some Market Reforms Lack Legitimacy in Health Care" in 2006. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 30:6. Subscription.
Maioni A (1997) Parting at the cross-roads. The development of health insurance in Canada and the United States, Comparative Politics, 29, 4: 411-431. (21 p.)Subscription
Quadagno, J (2004), Why the United States Has No National Health Insurance: Stakeholder Mobilization Against the Welfare State, 1945-1996, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 45: 25-44. (20 p.)Subscription
Weir M, Skocpol T (1983), State structures and social Keynesianism. Responses to the Great Depression in Sweden and the US, International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 24, 1-2: 6-29. (23 p.)