The Political Economy of Social Institutions

Course: The Political Economy of Social Institutions
Course Number: 35
Time:
Prerequisites:
Credits: 6
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  1. GENERAL
SCHOOL SOCIAL POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC SCIENCES
DEPARTMENT SOCIAL POLICY
LEVEL OF STUDIES LEVEL 6
COURSE CODE 35 SEMESTER 5th&7th
COURSE TITLE The Political Economy of Social Institutions
TEACHING ACTIVITIES
If the ECTS Credits are distributed in distinct parts of the course e.g. lectures, labs etc. If the ECTS Credits are awarded to the whole course, then please indicate the teaching hours per week and the corresponding ECTS Credits.		 TEACHING HOURS PER WEEK ECTS CREDITS
3 6
Please, add lines if necessary. Teaching methods and organization of the course are described in section 4.
COURSE TYPE

Background, General Knowledge, Scientific Area, Skill Development

 Scientific Area
PREREQUISITES: NONE
TEACHING & EXAMINATION LANGUAGE: GREEK
COURSE OFFERED TO ERASMUS STUDENTS: NO
COURSE URL: https://eclass.duth.gr/courses/OKA186/
  1. LEARNING OUTCOMES
Learning Outcomes
Please describe the learning outcomes of the course: Knowledge, skills and abilities acquired after the successful completion of the course.
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:

  • Apply economic theories and concepts to the study of political action and the formation of policy.
  • Learn how economic and political forces may shape the incentives and constraints of policymakers and other political actors.
  • Recognize the role of institutions in shaping both political action and policy outcomes. Systematically compare social policy arrangements across countries
  • Apply these concepts, terms and methods to empirical research questions
General Skills
Name the desirable general skills upon successful completion of the module
Search, analysis and synthesis of data and information,

ICT Use

Adaptation to new situations

Decision making

Autonomous work

Teamwork

Working in an international environment

Working in an interdisciplinary environment

Production of new research ideas

 Project design and management

Equity and Inclusion

Respect for the natural environment

Sustainability

Demonstration of social, professional and moral responsibility and sensitivity to gender issues

Critical thinking

Promoting free, creative and inductive reasoning
Search, analysis and synthesis of data and information

Decision making

Autonomous work

Working in an interdisciplinary environment

Critical thinking

Promoting free, creative and inductive reasoning
  1. COURSE CONTENT
1.       Course Introduction, Overview

2.       What is political economy?, What is a welfare state?

3.       The capitalist economy

4.       Theories of Magnification and Modernization

5.       Wages and labor, inequality and poverty

6.       The state and its “welfare” activities

7.        The payments of the welfare state

8.       The expansion of social spending

9.       The welfare state and the capitalist economy

10.     Welfare state and crisis

11.   The activities of the capitalist state and their economic importance

12.   The state sector and the capitalist sector

13.   Summary of the topic
  1. LEARNING & TEACHING METHODS – EVALUATION
TEACHING METHOD
Face to face, Distance learning, etc.		 FACE TO FACE
USE OF INFORMATION & COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY (ICT)
Use of ICT in Teaching, in Laboratory Education, in Communication with students		 Use of ICT in Teaching, and in Communication with students, Bibliographic research
TEACHING ORGANIZATION

The ways and methods of teaching are described in detail.

Lectures, Seminars, Laboratory Exercise, Field Exercise, Bibliographic research & analysis, Tutoring, Internship (Placement), Clinical Exercise, Art Workshop, Interactive learning, Study visits, Study / creation, project, creation, project. Etc.

 

The supervised and unsupervised workload per activity is indicated here, so that total workload per semester complies to ECTS standards.
Activity Workload/semester
Δραστηριότητα Φόρτος Εργασίας Εξαμήνου
Lectures 45
Interactive learning 15
Study 45
Final written examination 45
25 hours workload per ECTS UNIT 150
Student Evaluation

Description of the evaluation process

 Assessment Language, Assessment Methods, Formative or Concluding, Multiple Choice Test, Short Answer Questions, Essay Development Questions, Problem Solving, Written Assignment, Essay / Report, Oral Exam, Presentation in audience, Laboratory Report, Clinical examination of a patient, Artistic interpretation, Other/Others

 Please indicate all relevant information about the course assessment and how students are informed 

2 HOURS WRITTEN EXAMS
  1. SUGGESTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
1.       THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OD WELFARE STATE, (2008) Gough, I., ATHENS: SAVVALAS

2.       THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF CAPITALISM, (2011), VLACHOU, A. (ED), ATHENS:KRITIKI

 

 

ANNEX OF THE COURSE OUTLINE

 

Alternative ways of examining a course in emergency situations

 

Teacher (full name): KONSTANTINOS KOUGIAS
Contact details: KKOUGIAS@SP.DUTH.GR
Supervisors: (1)
Evaluation methods: (2) ORAL EXAMINATIONS
Implementation Instructions: (3) Examinations will take place in groups of 5 people per half hour according to the order in which the names of the participants appear in the attached list (examination program).

The examination will be carried out through MS TEAMS. The link will be sent to students via eclass exclusively to the institutional accounts.

They will also take part in the examination with a camera which they will have open during the examination. Before the start of the exam, students will show their academic identity to the camera, so that the integrity and reliability of the exam are ensured.

 

  • Please write YES or NO
  • Note down the evaluation methods used by the teacher, e.g.
  • written assignment or/and exercises
  • written or oral examination with distance learning methods, provided that the integrity and reliability of the examination are ensured.
  • In the Implementation Instructions section, the teacher notes down clear instructions to the students:

 

  1. a) in case of written assignment and / or exercises: the deadline (e.g. the last week of the semester), the means of submission, the grading system, the grade percentage of the assignment in the final grade and any other necessary information.
  2. b) in case of oral examination with distance learning methods: the instructions for conducting the examination (e.g. in groups of X people), the way of administration of the questions to be answered, the distance learning platforms to be used, the technical means for the implementation of the examination (microphone, camera, word processor, internet connection, communication platform), the hyperlinks for the examination, the duration of the exam, the grading system, the percentage of the oral exam in the final grade, the ways in which the inviolability and reliability of the exam are ensured and any other necessary information.
  3. c) in case of written examination with distance learning methods: the way of administration of the questions to be answered, the way of submitting the answers, the duration of the exam, the grading system, the percentage of the written exam of the exam in the final grade, the ways in which the integrity and reliability of the exam are ensured and any other necessary information.

There should be an attached list with the Student Registration Numbers only of students eligible to participate in the examination.