This is a continuing course at undergraduate level that requires at least 30 Swedish higher education credits in political science or corresponding knowledge. 'Corresponding' includes studies in social sciences with extensive and distinct elements of political science. This course is taught only for exchange students.
This course gives an introduction to the comparative study of welfare state regimes, especially discussing the effect of welfare state regimes on social inequality. It takes its starting-point in Gøsta Esping-Andersen's well-known typology of welfare regimes, and then proceeds into (some of) the various strands of research that explicitly or implicitly build on this typology.
