POLITICS 256

Special Topic: Transforming Welfare States

Please note: this is archived course information from 2017 for POLITICS 256.

Description

Considers the multiple challenges that are driving the contemporary transformation of welfare states, including globalisation, ageing, other demographic changes, migration. The course opens with a consideration of the history of welfare states and of competing ideological approaches before moving on to the transformation of contemporary welfare states around the world.

Availability 2017

Not taught in 2017

Lecturer(s)

TBA

Points

POLITICS 256: 15 points

Prerequisites

30 points at Stage I in Political Studies or Politics and International Relations