Population Policy - MD360E04

• Title: Population Policy
• Czech title: Populační politika
• Guaranteed by: Department of Demography and Geodemography (31-360)
• Faculty: Faculty of Science
• Actual: from 2024
• Semester: winter
• E-Credits: 4
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/1, C+Ex [HT]
• Capacity: unlimited
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Note: priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
• Guarantor: doc. RNDr. Jiřina Kocourková, Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): doc. RNDr. Jiřina Kocourková, Ph.D.

Annotation

The aim of the course:

- The student will learn about the history of population policy from the beginning of the 19th century, the main stages of development following the knowledge of population theory and population developments in both European and international context

- The student will be able to define a population policy within a broader state policy and distinguish social and family policy

- The student will be able to assess the influence of population policy on population development and evaluate the population climate

- The student will be able to use knowledge of population policy in practice

Last update: Kurtinová Olga, RNDr. Mgr., Ph.D. (28.06.2024)

Literature

Henricson, C. A Revolution in Family Policy. Where we should go from here. The Policy Press. UK. 2012.

May, J. F. World Population Policies. Their Origin, Evolution, and Impact. Springer. 2012.

Takayama, N., Werding, M. Fertility and Public Policy. How to Reverse the Trend of Declining Birth Rates. CESifo Seminar Series. The MIT Press. UK. 2011.

Demeny, P. Population Policy: A Concise Summary. Working paper No. 173. Population Council, New York. 2003.

Gauthier, A. H. The State and the Family. Clarendon Press. Oxford. 1996.

Kamerman, S. B., Moss, P. (eds.) The politics of parental leave policies. Children, parenting, gender and the labour market. The Policy Press. 2009.

Wall, K., Deven, F. Family Policy in Council of Europe Member States. Council of Europe. 2009.

Last update: Kurtinová Olga, RNDr. Mgr., Ph.D. (28.06.2024)

Requirements to the exam

Course requirements - Combined Form of Studies:

To meet the course:

Credit - you need to get at least 70 points out of 100. The number of points will be designed as the arithmetic average of points from four activities:
- active participation at least on three discussion forums (0-100 points)
- seminar work on the specified topic (0-100 points)
- Written answer on a given question from the conference (0-100 points)
- Written evaluation of conceptual material (0-100 points)

Exam - Written test (10 questions, each for 3 points), to meet at least 16 points of 30 (16-20 points = well, 21-24 points = very well, 25-30 points = excellent)

Last update: Kurtinová Olga, RNDr. Mgr., Ph.D. (28.06.2024)

Syllabus

Syllabus of the course:

1) Population, family and social policy, its definition and instruments, relationship to population theory and population climate.

2) Population policy in the 19th century and in the late 20th century, the influence of malthusianism and strategic demography, the development of modern population policy measures

3) Population policy in Europe in the 1930s: Germany, Italy, France and Sweden

4) Population policy in developing countries after World War II: programs of family planning and world population conferences

5) Population policy in Europe after World War II: comparing development in Western and Eastern Europe.

6) Family policy models on the example of selected states (liberal, conservative, pronatalist and Scandinavian).

7) Population policy in Czechoslovakia before 1990 and its influence on population development.

8) Population policy in the former Eastern Bloc.

9) Family Policy in the Czech Republic after 1992. The main stages of development, new approaches and changes in measures. The first concept of Family Policy of the Czech Republic in 2005.

10) New Family Policy Concept of the Czech Republic from 2017. Current Family Policy Problems. Family policy in political party electoral programs.

11) Family Policy Trends, Lisbon Strategy and Europe 2020 Strategy. EU Directive. Family Policy in Selected EU States after 2000, Specificities of Post-Communist Countries

12) Population policy of non-European states with low fertility

Organization of the Course - Combined Form of Studies:

- 12 practical hours in 3 blocks + 6 hours of participation in conference + 82 hours of self-study and independent work

- The self-study will be based on available presentations and reading compulsory literature. The individual work will be based on the elaboration of one seminar work and participation in three discussion forums that will be preceded by a practical block. It is compulsory to attend one conference from which the question processed. The third task will also have a written form.
- At the beginning of the course, works for written processing will be divided according to the list of topics that will be based on the most important publications. One student will be assigned one seminar work. Ina a seminar work students must demonstrate that they understood the topic. The submission term will be a week before the one of the three practical blocks, which is thematically corresponding to the given seminar work.
- Seminar works and discussion forums will be evaluated and discussed during practical hours in 3 blocks.
- During the course, the date of the currently held conference which is topically related to the population policy, will be announced. Students will participate in the conference compulsory or they can attend another similar conference instead. In advance, the question related to the topic of the conference will be given to students in order to prepare writing answer and submit it to the specified deadline.
- At the last third block, students will be assigned the third task (evaluation of the conceptual document), which they will have to submit to the end of the credit week.

Last update: Kurtinová Olga, RNDr. Mgr., Ph.D. (28.06.2024)