The contemporary tendency to reject Social Policy as part of the broader Economic Policy reflects the gradual decline of the Social State as a vehicle for promoting economic growth.
The course examines the reasons for state intervention in the field of social policy, presents a historical review of the welfare state and the theoretical approaches to the social state, and analyses the ways in which social policy is implemented in Greece and other EU countries.
What does ‘social policy’ mean?
Why is state intervention necessary?
Historical review of the welfare state in European countries.
Political economy: how social policy is influenced by ideology (schools of political thought: neoliberalism, liberalism, social democracy, socialism. Social justice and the state)?