Academic Year 2010/ 2011 Fall Semester E-1104: Social Policy in China. Stein Kuhnle & Anne Sander. Syllabus (27 August 2010)

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1 Academic Year 2010/ 2011 Fall Semester 2010 E-1104: Social Policy in China Stein Kuhnle & Anne Sander Syllabus (27 August 2010) 1. General Information Class Thursdays, Venue 2.30 Conveners Stein Kuhnle & Anne Sander Office Stein Kuhnle: Friedrichstr. 180, Office 2.45 Anne Sander: Friedrichstr. 180, Office 1.42 Telephone Stein Kuhnle: Anne Sander: Office Hours Stein Kuhnle: Wednesdays, Anne Sander: Thursdays, or upon prior agreement 2. Aim of the course: This elective, deals with the development of social policy in China since its economic opening-up and with major challenges to these emerging social security schemes. After introducing Western concepts and typologies of welfare in the first two sessions and a brief overview of pre-dengist conceptions of social policy, the course will focus on developments and reforms in a broad range of policy fields such as labour, health, pensions, social assistance and education policy. We shall discuss different challenges (e.g. internal migration, rising unemployment, demographic change) and their impact on emerging social security schemes. In doing so we shall also take a closer look at the role of various actors and how it has changed over time. The question of whether and where China fits in with Western concepts of the welfare state and whether a new type of welfare regime is emerging in China will be discussed. The overall ambition of the course is to improve knowledge of social policy developments in China and to understand the interplay between socio-economic context, actors and institutions in policy making and to analyze this interplay systematically. The course also aims at improving analytical skills linking relevant theoretical approaches and empirical data. 3. Grading and assignments Students will be asked to join a working group for the entire semester, dealing with one policy field. The working groups (of 3-4 students each) will prepare a presentation and will jointly

2 work and reflect on a future scenario for their respective policy field which will be presented and discussed via a poster during the last two sessions. Presentations should be introductory (15 minutes) aiming at actively stimulating discussion in class. Each working group should meet with the instructors to discuss the details of their presentation at least two weeks in advance. Instructions for the poster presentations will be provided during a methods workshop (session 2). A course reader containing the general reading material will be provided via a copy shop; texts can also be printed out directly from Moodle for each session. General instructions and other documents will also be made available via Moodle. Grading: Students will be graded on the quality of their presentation, the quality of their posters and their active participation in class. The final grade will be composed as follows: Poster/poster presentation 50% Presentation 30% Participation 20% 4. General reading Chan, C. K., K. L. Ngok and D. Phillips Social Policy in China. Development and wellbeing. Policy Press. Saich, T Governance and Politics of China. Third Edition. Palgrave Macmillan, Second Edition. Saich, T Web-Update to Governance and Politics of China. Available online at: 5. Overview of the course Session Date Topic Part I: Social Policy in China: Concepts and Analytical Tools Introduction: organization, assignments, expectations: Ideas of Welfare Workshop: Poster presentation Western Concepts of the Welfare State revisited Bringing East-Asia in concepts of emerging welfare in East Asia: the case of China Social Policy in China I: From the Great Leap Forward to

3 Economic Reform Social Policy in China II: Policy-Making, Actors and Institutions in the face of transition READING WEEK Part II: Social Policy in China: Policy Fields Working Group 1: Labour market policy Working Group 2: Health Policy Working Group 3: Pension Policy Working Group 4: Education Policy Working Group 5: Social Assistance Poster presentation: groups Poster presentation: groups 4 & 5; Wrap-up and course evaluation PART I Social Policy in China: Concepts and Analytical tools Week 1 Introduction Organization, Assignments, Expectations; What is welfare? Chinese and Western Ideas compared (Brainstorming) Responsible Stein Kuhnle, Anne Sander Wong, R.B Historical Lessons about Contemporary Social Welfare: Chinese Puzzles and Global Challenges. Brooks World Poverty Institute, Working Paper 58. Chow, N.W.S Western and Chinese ideas of social welfare. In: International Social Work, Vol. 30: Week 2 Workshop: Poster presentation Preparation/instructions for group work and poster presentations (what is a poster? how to develop a poster etc.); practical exercise Set-up of working groups Responsible Anne Sander

4 Online Tutorial Poster Presentation Week 3 Western Concepts of the Welfare State revisited Classical welfare state typologies, basic assumptions, main theoretical approaches Responsible Stein Kuhnle, Anne Sander W. Arts and J. Gelissen Models of the Welfare State. In: F. Castles et al.: The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State. Oxford University Press. Week 4 Bringing East-Asia in concepts of emerging welfare in East Asia: the case of China Responsible Stein Kuhnle Attempts to typologize East Asian Welfare states, China as an exception to the rule?, do Western concepts fit? The role of Confucianism Peng, I. and J. Wong East Asia. In: F. Castles et al.: The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State. Oxford University Press. Hort, S. O. E. and S. Kuhnle The coming of East and South-East Asian welfare states. Journal of European Social Policy 10 (2): Additional : Frazier, M.W Welfare State Building: China in Comparative Perspective. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association. (Available via Moodle only!) Week 5 Social Policy in China I: From the Great Leap Forward to Economic Reform Social Security under Mao, main features, rationale; Film China a Century of Revolution II: The Mao Years , 60 min. Responsible Stein Kuhnle, Anne Sander

5 Saich, T China`s Changing Road to Development: Political History, In: Saich, T.: Governance and Politics of China. Second Edition. Palgrave Macmillan: pp Eberlein, Xujun Disciple of the Masses. In: same author: Apologies Forthcoming selected short stories. Livingston Press. Week 6 Social Policy in China II: Policy-Making, Actors and Institutions in the face of transition (Public lecture) From Dengist reform policies to Harmonious Society, main features and rationale; changing concept of Social Security? Responsible Stein Kuhnle, Anne Sander (hopefully with guest speaker: Kinglun Ngok, Professor School of Government, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou) C.K. Chan, K.L. Ngok and D. Phillips Social Policy in China. Development and well-being. Policy Press: Part I, pp Please note: depending on the availability of the guest speaker, this session might be transferred to Monday, 25 October and will then be held as a public lecture! READING WEEK No class PART II Social Policy in China: Policy Fields Week 7 Working group 1: Labour market policy Labour market related social policy Responsible Group 1 Schucher, G China`s Employment Crisis A Stimulus for Policy Change? Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, 38/2: pp Hebel, J. and Schucher, G Labour Market Flexibility and Social Security in the People`s Republic of China. China aktuell 1/2008: pp World Bank China`s Modernizing Labor Market: Trends and Emerging

6 Additional : Challenges. Synthesis Report for the ESW Component of the China Labor Market AAA Program. (Available via Moodle only!) Week 8 Working Group 2: Health Policy Health Care Scheme(s), challenges to health care, reforms Responsible Group 2 Hougaard, J.L. et al The Chinese Health Care System: Structure, Problems and Challenges. Discussion Papers, Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen. Shi, L Health care in China: a rural-urban comparison after the socioeconomic reform. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 71 (6): Week 9 Working Group 3: Pension Policy Pension Policy, reforms and challenges Responsible Group 3 Salditt et al Pension Reform in China: Progress and Reform. Paris: OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers. Béland, D. and K.M. Yu A Long Financial March: Pension Reform in China. Cambridge University Press: Journal of Social Policy, 33: pp Week 10 Working Group 4: Education Education policy, main challenges/problems, rationale Responsible Group 4 Jacob, J. W Social Justice in Chinese Higher Education: Regional of Equity and Access. In: International Review of Education, Vol. 52, No. 1/2:

7 Chan, C.K., Ngok, K.L. and Phillips, D Education Policy. In: same authors: Social Policy in China Development and well-being. Bristol: Policy Press: Week 11 Working Group 5: Social Assistance Social assistance, rural-urban discrepancies, ideas/values (definition of poverty) Responsible Group 5 Wong, J.C.B. and Wong, L The Emergence of a communitybased Social Assistance Programme in Urban China. In: Social Policy & Administration, Nr. 33/1: pp Chen, J. and Barrientos, A Extending Social Assistance in China: Lessons from the Minimum Living Standard Scheme. Working Paper, SSRN. Yuebin, X Social Assistance in China: The Minimum Living Standards Guarantee Scheme. Working Paper, Beijing Normal University. Week 12 Poster presentation: Groups Presentation and discussion of research posters Responsible Stein Kuhnle, Anne Sander (moderators) Week 13 Poster presentation: Groups 4 & 5/ Wrap-Up and course evaluation Presentation and discussion of research posters; course evaluation and feedback Responsible Stein Kuhnle, Anne Sander (moderators)