Social Sustainability and Citizenship

Recommended Prerequisites

Constitutional Law

Teaching Methods

Seminars

Learning Outcomes

The course objectives include the discussion about:

- the theories of economic (de)growth and scarcity and their relation with social rights guarantees

- the theoretical grounds of the principle of sustainability

- the new challenges of the democratic rule of law

 

Learning goals:

- understanding social rights and their economic framework

- critical analysis of the open method for the coordination of sociality in the EU context

- discuss the instruments aiming at guaranteeing the sustainability of the subsystems for the implementation of social rights

 

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

The new welfare state paradigms in the 21^st century

Theory of scarcity and the social rights in the framework of the dogmatics of scarcity

Theories of justice in the 21^st century and the principle of intergenerational justice

Theoretical grounds and dogmatics of the principle of sustainability

The rationing of social assistance in the framework of a responsive sociality

The challenges of the democratic rule of law in the 21^st century: participation, transparency, accountability and new instruments for the democratic legitimation of political decisions

 

Head Lecturer(s)

João Carlos Simões Gonçalves Loureiro

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Research work: 100.0%

Bibliography

- Vieira de Andrade, Os Direitos Fundamentais na Constituição Portuguesa de 1976, 5.ª ed., Almedina, Coimbra, 2012

- João Carlos Loureiro, Adeus ao Estado Social?, Coimbra Editora, 2012

- Suzana Tavares da Silva | Maria de Fárima Ribeiro (Org.), Trajectórias de Sustentabilidade, IJ, 2013

- Castles te al., The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State, Oxford, 2010

- Dobner / Loughlin (ed), The Twilight of Constitutionalism?, Oxford University Press, 2010

- Lindhal, Fault Lines of Globalization, Oxford University Press, 2010

- Sandel, Justice: What's the Right thing to Do?, Penguin, 2009

- Sen, A Ideia de Justiça, Almedina, 2012

- Möller, The Global Model of Constitutional Rights, Oxford University Press, 2012

- Young, Constituting Economic and Social Rights, Oxford University Press, 2012