SOC 792D/PPA 697: COMPARATIVE WELFARE STATES 1 SPRING, 2014

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1 SOC 792D/PPA 697: COMPARATIVE WELFARE STATES 1 SPRING, 2014 Instructor: Joya Misra misra@soc.umass.edu Office: Machmer W33e; Gordon 115 Office Hours: Th 12-1:30 Gordon 115 & by appt. Meetings: Thurs 9:30 am-12 pm Classroom: Gordon 302 The welfare state is a central site for analyses of citizenship, inequality and politics. In this course, you will be introduced to a number of enduring debates in the study of welfare states and welfare policy. How have welfare states been created? Do welfare states mediate or institutionalize inequalities of class, race/ethnicity, gender, sexuality, age, etc.? How do welfare states vary in how they conceptualize and meet the needs of citizens? Are welfare states relevant in an increasingly global and transnational world? This course will also serve as an introduction to comparative-historical methods. Doing good comparative historical research requires detailed and systematic knowledge of cases that have been selected with great care. We will read comparative historical research, and consider the method all semester. Students should leave this course with a good handle on the study of comparative welfare states and policy, debates relevant to politics & inequality, and the comparative historical method. COURSE REQUIREMENTS Class Participation: This seminar is based on active involvement of all participants. You should complete assigned readings before class, and take part in a web-based discussion of the readings that pose questions for discussion before each class session (by Tuesday at 10 pm). Participating in the web board (reading and responding to others posts, as well as posting your own questions) composes 10% of the grade, actively participating in class composes another 10% of the grade (you can skip no more than one session or web discussion without a valid excuse). (20% of grade) Discussion Leading: You will lead or co-lead discussion one class session during the semester. Organizing the class discussion involves developing a list of no more than 5 major questions based on points and questions raised via the web discussion for discussion during the class session. Effective discussions should analyze the methods as well as the arguments in the readings. (10% of grade) 1 Many thanks to helpful recommendations from Alexander Hicks, Ann Orloff, and Regina Werum. 1

2 Memos: You will write three memos responding to the readings. In these word single-spaced memos, you will discuss and critically evaluate one set of assigned readings for which you have not led discussion. The review is due on the date of the class session covering those readings. (10% of grade each; 30% total) Course Paper: You will write a course paper that relates to politics, policy, & inequality, or uses comparative historical methods to explore another topic. This paper can be in the form of a research proposal, policy analysis, or research/capstone paper. Final paper topics should be discussed with me and decided by February 13 (there will be a private discussion on moodle where you can send me your topic and some initial sources). Length should be between pages. Rough drafts of the paper are due April 3 (also due on the private moodle discussion), 10% will be deducted from the final if a draft is not submitted. The final version of the paper is due on May 8 (on moodle). (Final Paper: 40% of grade) Participation on Moodle 10% In-class Participation 10% Discussion Leading 10% Memos 30% Final Paper 40% Grades are assigned as numeric grades and converted at the end of the semester to letter grades. The grading scale for this course is A=>93; A-=90-93; B+=87-90; B=83-87; B- =80-83, C+=77-80, C=<77. Required Readings All books are available at Amherst Books, 8 Main Street, Amherst. They are also on reserve in the W.E.B. DuBois Library. Other course readings are available through the moodle site. Patrick Emmenegger, Bruno Palier, and Martin Seeleib-Kaiser (Eds.) The Age of Dualization: The Changing Face of Inequality in Deindustrializing Societies. Oxford University Press. (available as e-book from UMass Library) Gosta Esping-Andersen Social Foundations of Postindustrial Economies. Oxford University Press. Janet Gornick and Marcia Meyers Gender Equality: Transforming Family Divisions of Labor. New York: Verso. Stephan Haggard and Robert R. Kaufman Development, Democracy and Welfare States: Latin America, East Asia, and Eastern Europe. Princeton University Press. Lane Kenworthy Progress for the Poor. Oxford University Press. Robert Lieberman Shaping Race Policy. Princeton: Princeton University Press. (available as e-book from UMass Library) 2

3 COURSE SCHEDULE Week One (January 23): Citizenship & Social Class T.H. Marshall, Citizenship and Social Class, pp in Citizenship, Class, and Other Essays (Cambridge, 1950). Irene Bloemraad, Anna Korteweg, and Gökçe Yurdakul Citizenship and Immigration. Annual Review of Sociology 34: Ann Shola Orloff Gender and the Social Rights of Citizenship. American Sociological Review. 58(3): Surya Monro Transgender Politics in the UK. Critical Social Policy 23(4): Gosta Esping Andersen The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism. Princeton: Princeton UPress. Christian Joppke Transformation of Citizenship: Status, Rights, Identity. Citizenship studies. 11: Chantal Mouffe. Democratic citizenship and the political community. Dimensions of radical democracy: pluralism, citizenship, community (1992): Diane Richardson Sexuality and citizenship. Sociology 32(1): Margaret Somers Citizenship Troubles. Pp in Adams, Clemens and Orloff s (eds.) Remaking Modernity: Politics and Processes in Historical Sociology. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Yasemin Nuhoglu Soysal Post-national Citizenship. The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Political Sociology 38: Yasemin Nuhoglu Soysal Limits of Citizenship: Migrants and Postnational Membership in Europe. University of Chicago Press. Charles Tilly Citizenship, Identity, & Social History. International Rev of Social History. 40:1-17. Wim Van Oorschot Making the Difference in Social Europe: Deservingness Perceptions among Citizens of European Welfare States. Journal of European Social Policy 16(1): Nira Yuval-Davis Women, Citizenship and Difference. Feminist Review 57: Week Two (January 30): Comparative Historical Approaches James Mahoney and Dietrich Rueschemeyer Comparative Historical Analysis: Achievements and Agendas. Pp in Mahoney and Rueschemeyer s Comparative Historical Analysis in the Social Sciences. New York: Cambridge University Press. Theda Skocpol. Doubly Engaged Social Science: The Promise of Comparative Historical Analysis. Pp in Mahoney and Rueschemeyer s Comparative Historical Analysis in the Social Sciences. New York: Cambridge University Press. Alex Hicks and Gosta Esping-Andersen Comparative and Historical Studies of Public Policy and the Welfare State. Pp in Janoski, Alford, Hicks and Schwartz s (eds.) The Handbook of Political Sociology. New York: Cambridge University Press. Ann Shola Orloff Social Provision and Regulation: Theories of States, Social Policies, and Modernity. Pp in Adams, Clemens and Orloff s (eds.) Remaking Modernity: Politics and Processes in Historical Sociology. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 3

4 Andrew Abbott Time Matters: On Theory and Method. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Francis Castles, Stephen Liebfried, Jane Lewis, Herbert Obinger, and Christopher Pierson (Eds) The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State. Oxford University Press. Stanley Lieberson Small N s and Big Conclusions: An Examination of the Reasoning in Comparative Studies Based on a Small Number of Cases. Pp in Charles Ragin and Howard Becker s What is a Case? New York: Cambridge University Press. James Mahoney and Dietrich Rueschemeyer, eds Comparative Historical Analysis in the Social Sciences. New York: Cambridge University Press. John Stuart Mill A System of Logic. London: Longman, Green, and Co. Adam Przeworski & Henry Teune The Logic of Comparative Social Inquiry. New York: Wiley & Sons. Theda Skocpol (Ed.) Vision and Method in Historical Sociology. New York: Cambridge U Press. Charles Tilly Big Structures, Large Processes, Huge Comparisons. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. Morris Zelditch Intelligible Comparisons. Pp in I. Vallier s Comparative Methods in Sociology. Berkeley: University of California. Week Three (February 6): Origins of the Welfare State Karl Polanyi [1944]. The Great Transformation: The Political And Economic Origins Of Our Time. Boston: Beacon Press. (pp , ) Fred Block and Margaret Somers, Beyond the Economistic Fallacy: The Holistic Social Science of Karl Polanyi. Pp in Vision and Method in Historical Sociology, edited by Skocpol. NY: Cambridge University Press. Peter Baldwin The Politics of Social Solidarity: Class Bases of the European Welfare State New York: Cambridge. Alex Hicks, Joya Misra, and Tang Nah Ng The Programmatic Emergence of the Social Security State. American Sociological Review. 60: Linda Gordon Pitied but Not Entitled: Single Mothers and the History of Welfare. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Joya Misra. Mothers or Workers? The Value of Unpaid Labor: Women and the Emergence of Family Allowance Policy. Gender & Society. 12: Ann Shola Orloff The Politics of Pensions. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press. Francis Fox Piven and Richard Cloward [1972]. Regulating the Poor. New York: Pantheon. Lynne Haney Inventing the Needy: Gender and the Politics of Welfare in Hungary. Berkeley: University of California Press. Edwin Amenta Bold Relief: Institutional Politics and the Origins of Modern American Social ppolicy. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Alice O Connor Poverty Knowledge: Social Science, Social Policy, and the Poor in Twentieth-Century U.S. History. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Theda Skocpol Protecting Soldiers and Mothers. Cambridge, MA: Harvard. George Steinmetz Regulating the Social: the Welfare State and Local Politics in Imperial Germany. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 4

5 Week Four (February 13): Welfare State Regimes Gosta Esping-Andersen Social Foundations of Postindustrial Economies. Oxford University Press. Edwin Amenta, Chris Bonastia, and Neal Caren US Social Policy in Comparative and Historical Perspective. Annual Review of Sociology 27: Romana Careja and Patrick Emmenegger The Politics of Public Spending in Post-Communist Countries. East European Politics & Societies 23(2): Peter Davis Rethinking the Welfare Regime Approach: the Case of Bangladesh. Global Social Policy 1(1): Gosta Esping-Andersen Welfare States in Transition. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. Peter A. Hall and David W. Soskice (Eds.) Varieties of Capitalism: The Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Carsten Jensen Worlds of Welfare Services and Transfers. Journal of European Social Policy 18(2): Alexander Hicks Social Democracy and Welfare Capitalism. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. Evelyne Huber and John D. Stephens Development and Crisis of the Welfare State. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. John Myles and Jill Quadagn Political Theories of the Welfare State. Social Service Review 76: Fiona Williams Race/Ethnicity, Gender, and Class in Welfare States: A Framework for Comparative Analysis. Social Politics. 2: Maurizio Ferrera. The Southern Model of Welfare in Europe. Journal of European Social Policy. 6(1): Diane Sainsbury (Ed.) Gender and Welfare State Regimes. Oxford University Press. Robert H. Blank and Viola Burau Comparative Health Policy. Palgrave Macmillan. Week Five (February 20): Welfare States in Other Contexts Stephan Haggard and Robert R. Kaufman Development, Democracy and Welfare States: Latin America, East Asia, and Eastern Europe. Princeton University Press. Juliana Martínez Franzoni Welfare Regimes in Latin America: Capturing Constellations of Markets, Families, and Policies. Latin American Politics and Society 50(2): Miguel Glazer and Dietrich Rueschemeyer (Eds) Globalization and the Future of the Welfare State. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press Ian Gough and Geof Wood Insecurity and Welfare Regimes in Asia, Africa and Latin America: Social Policy in Development Contexts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Ian Gough Welfare Regimes in Development Context: a Global and Regional Analysis. Cambridge U Press. Robert R. Kaufman and Alex Segura-Ubiergo Globalization, Domestic Politics, and Social Spending in Latin America. World Politics 53(4): Yeun wen Ku and Catherine Jones Finer Developments in East Asian Welfare Studies. Social Policy & Administration 41(2): Huck Ju Kwon Transforming the Developmental Welfare State in East Asia. Development and Change 36(3): Elmar Rieger and Stephan Leibfried Limits to Globalization. Cambridge, UK: Polity. Richard Sandbrook Social Democracy in the Global Periphery. Cambridge University Press. 5

6 Alex Segura-Ubiergo The Political Economy of the Welfare State in Latin America. NY: Cambridge U Press. Geof Wood and Ian Gough A Comparative Welfare Regime Approach to Global Social Policy. World Development 34(10): Lee Yih Jiunn and Yeun wen Ku East Asian Welfare Regimes: Testing the Hypothesis of the Developmental Welfare State. Social Policy & Administration. 41(2): Ramesh Mishra, Mukul G. Asher, and Mukul G. Asher Welfare capitalism in Southeast Asia: Social Security, Health, and Education policies. Macmillan, Week Six (February 27): Race & Welfare State Policy Robert Lieberman Shaping Race Policy. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Michael K. Brown Race, Money and the American Welfare State. Ithaca, NY: Cornell. Cybelle Fox Three Worlds of Relief: Race, Immigration, and the American Welfare State from the Progressive Era to the New Deal. Princeton University Press. Martin Gilens Why Americans Hate Welfare. University of Chicago Press. Gail Lewis Race, Gender, Welfare: Encounters in a Postcolonial Society. Blackwell. Robert C. Lieberman Shifting the Color Line. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Gwendolyn Mink The Wages of Motherhood: Inequality in the Welfare State Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. Kenneth J. Neubeck and Noel A. Cazenave Welfare Racism. Routledge. Jill Quadagno Race, Class and Gender in the U.S. Welfare State: Nixon s Failed Family Assistance Plan. American Sociological Review 55(1990): Jill Quadagno The Color of Welfare. New York: Oxford University Press. Sanford F. Schram, Joe Brian Soss, and Richard Carl Fording (Eds.) Race and the Politics of Welfare Reform. University of Michigan Press. Celeste Watkins-Hayes The New Welfare Bureaucrats: Entanglements of Race, Class, and Policy Reform. University of Chicago Press. Week Seven (March 6): Immigration & the Welfare State Cybelle Fox Three Worlds of Relief: Race, Immigration, and Public and Private Social Welfare Spending in American Cities, American Journal of Sociology 116(2): Diane Sainsbury Immigrants Social Rights in Comparative Perspective: Welfare Regimes, Forms in Immigration and Immigration Policy Regimes. Journal of European Social Policy. 16(3): Yasemin Nuhoğlu Soysal Citizenship, Immigration, and the European Social Project. The British Journal of Sociology 63(1): Carl Ulrik Schierup, Peo Hansen, and Stephen Castles Paradise Lost : Migration and the Changing Swedish Welfare State. Pp in Migration, Citizenship, and the European Welfare State. New York: Oxford. Francesca Bettio, Annamaria Simonazzi, Paola Villa Changes in Care Regimes and Female Migration. Journal of European Social Policy. 16(3):

7 Recommended Readings Keith Banting and Will Kymlicka Multiculturalism and the Welfare State: Recognition and Redistribution in Contemporary Democracies. New York: Oxford University Press. George J. Borjas, and Lynette Hilton Immigration and the Welfare State: Immigrant Participation in Means-Tested Entitlement Programs. The Quarterly Journal of Economics 111(2): Maurizio Ferrera The Boundaries of Welfare. NY: Oxford University Press. Virginie Guiraudon Including Foreigners in National Welfare States: Institutional Venues and Rules of the Game. Pp in Bo Rothstein and Sven Steinmo s Restructuring the Welfare State. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Aihwa Ong Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality. Duke University Press. Zeev Rosenhek. The Exclusionary Logic of the Welfare State Palestinian Citizens in the Israeli Welfare State. International Sociology 14.2 (1999): Daniel Tichenor Dividing Lines: the Politics of Immigration Control in America. Princeton U Press. Week Eight (March 13): Gender, Family, & Sexuality Janet Gornick and Marcia Meyers Gender Equality: Transforming Family Divisions of Labor. New York: Verso. Amy Lind. Legislating the Family: Heterosexual Bias in Social Welfare Policy Frameworks. Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare 31 (2004): 21. Dean Spade Compliance is Gendered: Struggling for Gender Self-Determination in a Hostile Economy. Pp in Currah, Juang, and Minter s Transgender Rights. U of Minnesota Press. Rosemary Crompton Employment & the Family: The Reconfiguration of Work & Family Life. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Mary Daly The Gender Division of Welfare. New York: Cambridge. Susan Gal and Gail Kligman The Politics of Gender after Socialism: a Comparative-Historical Essay. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Janet C. Gornick and Marcia K. Meyers Families That Work: Policies for Reconciling Parenthood and Employment. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. Lynne Haney, Homeboys, Babies, Men in Suits: The State and the Reproduction of Male Dominance, American Sociological Review 61(1996): Barbara Hobson (Ed.) Making Men into Fathers: Men, Masculinities and the Social Politics of Fatherhood. Jane Jenson and Mariette Sineau (Eds) Who Cares? Women s Work, Childcare and Welfare State Redesign. Toronto: U of Toronto Press. Monique Kremer How Welfare States Care: Culture, Gender and Parenting in Europe. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press Suzanne Mettler Dividing Citizens. Ithaca, NY: Cornell. Kimberly J. Morgan Working Mothers and the Welfare State. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. Julia O Connor, Ann Orloff and Sheila Shaver States, Markets, Families. Cambridge U Press. Elzbieta H. Oleksy (Ed.) Intimate Citizenships: Gender, Sexualities, Politics. Taylor & Francis. Ann Shola Orloff. Gendering the Comparative Analysis of Welfare States: An Unfinished Agenda. Sociological Theory 27.3 (2009): Janneke van der Ros Transgendered citizenship in the Norwegian welfare state: The non-recognition of diversities, or Gender Equality for all kinds of gender? 7

8 Week Nine (March 27): Education & Welfare States Richard Rubinson Class Formation, Politics, and Institutions: Schooling in the United States. American Journal of Sociology. 92(3): Regina Werum Sectionalism and Racial Politics: Federal Vocational Policies and Programs in the Predesegregation South. Social Science History 21(3): Miriam Cohen Reconsidering Schools and the American Welfare State. History of Education Quarterly 45(4): Harvey Kantor, and Robert Lowe From New Deal to No Deal: No Child Left Behind and the Devolution of Responsibility for Equal Opportunity. Harvard Educational Review 76(4): Jutta Allmendinger, and Stephan Leibfried Education and the Welfare State: the Four Worlds of Competence Production. Journal of European Social Policy 13(1): Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis Schooling in Capitalist America. New York: Basic Books. Prudence L. Carter and Kevin G. Welner (Eds.) Closing the Opportunity Gap: What America Must Do to Give Every Child an Even Chance. Oxford University Press. Harvey Kantor and Robert Lowe. The Price of Human Capital: Educational Reform and the Illusion of Equal Opportunity. Dissent 58.3 (2011): Kirsti Karila A Nordic Perspective on Early Childhood Education and Care Policy. European Journal of Education. 47(4): Jeffrey Mirel Patriotic Pluralism: Americanization Education and European Immigrants. Harvard University Press. Kimberly J. Morgan The Production of Child Care: How Labor Markets Shape Social Policy and Vice Versa. Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society 12(2): Mark Olssen In Defence of the Welfare State and Publicly Provided Education. Journal of Education Policy. 11(3): Beth Tarasawa. Fight or Flight? Immigration, Competition, and Language Assistance Resources in Metropolitan Atlanta. Journal of Latinos and Education. 12(3): Regina Werum Matching Youth and Jobs? Gender Dynamics in New Deal Job Training Programs. Social Forces. 81(2): Regina Werum Elite Control in State and Nation: Racial Inequalities in Vocational Funding in North Carolina, Georgia, and Mississippi, Social Forces 78(1): Week Ten (April 3): Poverty & Income Inequality Lane Kenworthy Progress for the Poor. Oxford University Press. Petra Böhnke Are the Poor Socially Integrated? The Link between Poverty and Social Support in Different Welfare Regimes. Journal of European Social Policy 18(2): Giuliano Bonoli The Politics of the New Social Policies: Providing Coverage Against New Social Risks in Mature Welfare States. Policy & Politics 33(3): David Brady, Andrew S. Fullerton, and Jennifer Moren Cross Putting Poverty in Political Context: a Multi-level Analysis of Adult Poverty across 18 Affluent Democracies. Social Forces 88(1): Gosta Esping-Andersen (Ed.) Why We Need a New Welfare State. Oxford University Press. 8

9 Barbara Hobson No Exit, No Voice: Women s Economic Dependency and the Welfare State. Acta Soiologica. 33(3): Walter Korpi and Joakim Palme The Paradox of Redistribution and Strategies of Equality: Welfare State Institutions, Inequality, and Poverty in Western Countries. American Sociological Review 63(5): Robert E. Goodin (Ed.). The Real Worlds of Welfare Capitalism. Cambridge University Press, Janet Gornick and Markus Jantti Income Inequality: Economic Disparities and the Middle Class in Affluent Countries. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press. Rold Aaberge, Anders Björklund, Markus Jäntti, Mårten Palme, Peder J. Pedersen, Nina Smith, and Tom Wennemo Income Inequality and Income Mobility in the Scandinavian Countries Compared to the United States." Review of Income and Wealth. 48(4): Katherine McFate, Roger Lawson, and William Julius Wilson Poverty, Inequality and the Future of Social Policy: Western States in the New World Order. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. Joya Misra, Stephanie Moller, Eiko Strader, Elizabeth Wemlinger Family Policies, Employment and Poverty among Partnered and Single Mothers. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility. 30(1): Stephanie Moller, Evelyne Huber, John D. Stephens, David Bradley, and Francois Nielsen Determinants of Relative Poverty in Advanced Capitalist Democracies." American Sociological Review. 68(1): Stephanie Moller Supporting Poor Single Mothers Gender and Race in the US Welfare State. Gender & Society 16(4): Monica Prasad The Land of Too Much: American Abundance and the Paradox of Poverty. Harvard University Press. Week Eleven (April 10): Labor, Globalization, & Retrenchment Patrick Emmenegger, Bruno Palier, and Martin Seeleib-Kaiser (Eds.) The Age of Dualization: The Changing Face of Inequality in Deindustrializing Societies. Oxford University Press. Nita Rudra Globalization and the Decline of the Welfare State in Less-Developed Countries. International Organization 56(2): Giuliano Bonoli Social Policy through Labor Markets Understanding National Differences in the Provision of Economic Security to Wage Earners. Comparative Political Studies 36(9): Patrick Emmenegger Job Security Regulations in Western Democracies: A Fuzzy Set Analysis. European Journal of Political Research 50(3): Jacob S. Hacker Privatizing Risk without Privatizing the Welfare State: The Hidden Politics of Social Policy Retrenchment in the United States. American Political Science Review. 98(2): Bob Alexander Hepple Labour Laws and Global Trade. Hart publishing. Torben Iversen and Anne Wren, Equality, Employment and Budgetary Restraint: The Trilemma of the Service Economy. World Politics 50 (4): Lane Kenworthy Jobs with Equality. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Walter Korpi, and Joakim Palme New Politics and Class Politics in the Context of Austerity and Globalization. American Political Science Review. 97(3): Jane Lewis (Ed.) Gender, Social Care, and Welfare State Restructuring. Aldershot: Ashgate. Stephan Liebfried and Elmar Rieger Welfare State Limits to Globalization. Politics & Society. 6(24): Gwendolyn Mink. (Ed.) Welfare s End. Ithaca, NY: Cornell. Ronaldo Munck Globalization and Labour: The New Great Transformation. Zed Books. 9

10 Mitchell A. Orenstein, Privatizing Pensions: The Transnational Campaign for Social Security Reform. Princeton University Press. Jamie Peck Workfare States. New York: Guilford Press. Paul Pierson The New Politics of the Welfare State. New York: Oxford. Bo Rothstein and Sven Steinmo (Eds.) Restructuring the Welfare State. New York: Palgrave David Rueda, and Jonas Pontusson. Wage inequality and varieties of capitalism. World Politics 52.3 (2000): Fritz Scharpf and Vivien Schmidt (Ed.) Welfare and Work in the Open Economy. NY: Oxford. Robert Sykes, Bruno Palier, and Pauline M. Prior Globalization and European Welfare States. New York: Palgrave. Macmillan. Bruce Western and Katherine Beckett How Unregulated Is the US Labor Market? The Penal System as a Labor Market Institution. American Journal of Sociology. 104(4): Week Twelve (Work on Course Paper) Week Thirteen (April 24): Final Discussion/Student Presentations of Course Papers May 8: FINAL PAPER DUE 10

11 Guidelines for Leading Class Discussion You will be in charge of leading discussion of the course material for one week of class, either alone or with another student. You can structure discussion in any number of ways. All discussion leaders must aim for equitable participation from class members and provide no more than five major discussion questions for the class session (no more than one sheet of paper). Your job is not to lecture the class, but to create an engaged and inclusive discussion among class members that leads to a clearer understanding of the readings. Discussion leaders should be vigilant about maintaining equitable participation. Be creative in thinking about how to sustain discussion and involve all class members in discussion, including using pedagogical techniques like free-writing and small group work. Discussion leaders also need to take a strong role to ensure that the discussion remains on track, covers the readings for the course, and helps connect the week s materials to the larger conversation we are having over the semester. I evaluate discussion leading using the following rubric. Leading discussion makes up 10% of your grade. Another 20% of your grade will reflect your participation in the web/class discussion. If you want others to participate when you lead discussion, you should be prepared and participate for their sessions as well! Provides no more than 5 (major) discussion questions Prepared, able to clarify readings, and integrates readings into discussion Places readings in context of previous weeks Organizes session effectively, with transitions, summaries, and good pacing Engages all of the class members in discussion, responds constructively, and requires respect among class members Exceptional Good OK Needs Improvement Does not meet expectations 11

12 Guidelines for Reviews Three short papers responding to materials covered in the readings are required for this course. In these word (single-spaced, typed) papers, you will discuss and critically evaluate one book or set of assigned readings for which you have not led discussion. You should turn in each review on the date of the class session covering the readings that you evaluate. I expect one review during the first third of the semester (by Week 4), another during the second third of the semester (by Week 8), and the third in the last part of the semester (by Week 12). You may think of these short papers as critical reviews of the material. Although you may review a group of articles/chapters in your review, reading published book reviews may give you an idea of how to organize your review. Basically, write a brief summary of the authors main arguments, a paragraph placing this material within the larger context of the readings we have done, and a critical evaluation of the arguments the authors make. You should evaluate the material in terms of the authors ability to present supported, sound arguments using comparative historical methods. In my evaluation of these reviews, I will consider writing style and organization, as well as whether you convey an understanding of the material you review and whether your argument and critique of the material is systematic and convincing. Summarizes reading(s) effectively Exceptional Good Meets Expectations Needs Improvement Does not meet expectations Places in context of other readings Critiques reading(s) effectively and systematically Strong writing Well organized 12

13 Guidelines for Final Papers The major requirement for this class is the final course paper. In this paper, you should do systematic research on a topic that relates to politics, policy and inequality, or comparative historical methods. This final paper may be in the form of a policy analysis or it may be a detailed review of a specific literature, a research proposal, or even a paper that engages in original research on a topic. The paper should be typed, double-spaced, and between pages (length is negotiable). I expect MPPA students to write no more than 15 pages (although if the paper serves as your capstone, it may indeed be longer). My worst fear is that students will drive themselves to write a great deal about a topic they do not care about and will never revisit. My goal is that you will use this paper to further your thinking about an issue that you do care about; even better is when this writing can further your goals whether that is to inform potential employers that you are well-versed in a particular area, or to serve as some part of an capstone, comprehensives paper, etc. Please work with me to identify a topic that you think will be beneficial to you. Final paper topics should be discussed with me during office hours, and submitted formally on the moodle, with a preliminary outline for the paper, by Week 5. Rough drafts of the paper are due by Week 10, also on the moodle. No grades will be given these drafts, but 10% will be deducted from the final grade if a draft is not submitted. The final version of the paper is due on May 8, also on the moodle. The paper makes up 40% of your final grade. A good paper has: o A clear introduction, which provides a persuasive argument about the importance and relevance of the paper o A clear and original argument, which draws from a review of the relevant literature. Show that you understand how your argument fits within the scholarship that already exists, and rely upon at least 12 academic sources. o Methodological appropriateness, if you propose or actually do research for the paper. o A conclusion that summarizes your argument and makes explicit the implications of your research, including policy recommendations when appropriate. o Effective writing and organization, including transitions between paragraphs and sections, and footnotes for any information that is not crucial for your argument. Finally, revise thoroughly. Revision is the difference between an A and a B paper. Two papers can be well conceptualized, theoretically sophisticated, and methodologically well executed, and yet if the first was never revised, it will be noticeably inferior to the second. Use rough drafts to reorganize your argument, clear up fuzzy concepts, recheck your references, and fix spelling and grammatical errors. Including your rough draft, you should revise your paper at least 3 times before submitting it for this course. 13