Social and Public Policy - DZIENNE I STOPNIA - 1 semestr 1 rok - przedmioty obowiązkowe (grupa przedmiotów zdefiniowana przez Wydział Nauk Politycznych i Studiów Międzynarodowych)

• Konwersatorium - 60 godzin

• Ćwiczenia - 30 godzin
• Wykład - 30 godzin

Scope: basic knowledge about methodological and methodological aspects of social research. Shaping and developing workshop skills in conducting social research. Key topics: research process in social sciences; research concept components; sociological variables and their indicators; qualitative research and selected non-survey research methods; survey research; cross-sectional studies; dynamic and pseudo-dynamic; comprehensive research and research samples; social science experiment; evaluation studies.

• Wykład - 30 godzin

The course is related to the comparison of the institutional designs, political regimes and welfare state models of the European Union member-states. The first part of the course is based on typology of democratic institutions by A. Lijphart and devoted to the variety of institutional designs in Europe (e.g. majoritarian, consensus). Here the issues of democratic backsliding in Europe and other political challenges are also discussed. The second part of the course explores the varieties of socioeconomic policies in Europe, based on the typology of G. Esping – Andersen and other relevant classifications, to understand basic approaches of different countries towards welfare provision and socio-economic policies. The issue of policy of Europeanization is considered as well. During the course students are expected to get a closer look at the European countries and acquire theoretical knowledge for their comparative research