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Discuss to what extent comparative approaches enrich the analysis of…
Discuss to what extent comparative approaches enrich the analysis of social
policy?
Advantages
Disadvantages
Conceptual Stretching
Selection Bias
Over-determination (small-n, too many variables too few cases'
Definitions
Examples
Typologies of Welfare States
Esping-Andersen
Essay Themes
Learning
Globalisation
Parochialism
Convergence/Diffusion/Policy transfer.
Approaches
Space
Time
Rationality/Structure/Agency
Consider
Policy cycle - policy formulation, decision making, policy implementation, monitoring and evaluation, agenda setting.
Assumptions
About Political System
Governments not just 'brokers'.
Institutions shape interests, strategies and opportunities to lobby.
Role of political parties?
Institutions/POS as explanation?
Conceptualising the welfare state.
Variables Affecting the Welfare State Today
Political/party coalitions.
Union density.
Welfare state values.
Unemployment Rates.
Disappearance of regime competition after cold war.
Class conflict.
Rise of service economies.
Demography.