History of Political and Social Institutions - 25351

The course aims to identify the themes and issues in the history of political and social institutions that form the basis for understanding European political processes from the modern era to the contemporary era. It attempts to provide a historical overview of the construction of the welfare state, starting from old regime assistance, moving through the nineteenth century and the reforms at the origins of the Italian welfare state placed in the early twentieth-century European context, up to Fascism. The course will then analyze the welfare institutions and social policies of the most important European states during the establishment of the liberal state, up to its crisis.