MPA Options List

Students may also seek approval from their Programme Supervisor and the Course Convenor to enrol on other MSc options.
Not all courses may be offered each year and are subject to cancellation, substitution and timetabling constraints.
 

Welfare State Policies

SA429

Social Exclusion, Inequality and the 'Underclass' Debate (H) 

SA451

Social Policy Research

GI414

Gender and Social Policy: Theory and Practice (H)

GI415

Gender and European Welfare States (H) +

SA4B9

Education Policy, Reform and Financing (H)

SA4M1

Politics of Social Policy: Welfare and Work in Comparative Perspective (H)

SA4X6

Welfare Analysis and Measurement

Urban Policy

GY430

Contemporary Urbanism

GY439

Cities, Politics and Citizenship (H)

GY454

Urban Policy and Planning (H)

GY457

Applied Urban and Regional Economics

GY479

The Urban Revolution (H)

Environmental Policy

DV413

Environmental Problems, Politics and Development (H)

DV415

Global Environmental Governance (H)

GV4F6

The Philosophy and Politics of Environmental Change

GY420

Environmental Regulation: Implementing Policy +

GY427

Climate Change: Science, Economics and Policy (H)

GY465

Concepts in Environmental Regulation (H)

GY475

Issues in Environmental Governance (H)

International Policy 

GV4A5

Public Policy Responses to International Migration (H) +

IR412

International Institutions

IR429

Economic Diplomacy

IR451

Politics of Money in the World Economy*

IR457

The Political Economy of International Trade

IR460

Comparative Political Economy

MN425

Business in the Global Environment (H)

Development Policy

AN436

The Anthropology of Development (H) (n/a 11/12)

AN456

Anthropology of Economy (1): Production and Exchange (H)

AN457

Anthropology of Economy (2): Development, Transformation and Globalisation (H)

DV409

Economic Development Policy*** ##

DV411

Population and Development: An Analytical Approach (H) ##

DV413

Environmental Problems, Politics and Development (H) ##

DV415

Global Environmental Governance (H) ##

DV418

African Development (H) ##

DV420

Complex Emergencies (H) ##

DV421

HIV/AIDS and Other Emerging Health Threats (H) ##

DV423

Global Political Economy of Development, I (H) ##

DV424

Global Political Economy of Development, II (H) ##

DV425

Managing Globalization (H) ## (n/a 11/12)

DV427

Public Management of Development ## (n/a 11/12)

DV432

China in Developmental Perspectives (H) ##

DV437

Nationalism, Democracy and Development in Contemporary India (H) ## (n/a 11/12)

DV441

Development Policy and Management  ##

EC428

Development and Growth**

EC454

Development Economics ###

GV443

The State and Political Institutions in Latin America (H)

GV444

Democracy and Development in Latin America (H)

GY408

Local Economic Development and Policy

GY410

Economics of Local and Regional Development (H)

GY415

Local Capacity and Economic Development Policy (H)

GY421

Gender and Development: Geographical Perspectives (H) (n/a 11/12)

SA435

NGOs and Development

SA452

Social Policy and Development

Economic Policy

EC402

Econometrics**

EC406

Economic Policy Analysis

EC411

Microeconomics**

EC413

Macroeconomics**

EC421

International Economics**

EC424

Monetary Economics**

EC426

Public Economics**

EC427

The Economics of Industry**

EC453

Political Economy**

EH475

The Rise and Decline of Economic Policy in Twentieth-Century Europe + (n/a 11/12)

FM492

Principles of Finance

GY455

Economic Appraisal and Valuation (H)

MN429

The World Trading System* (H)

PH413

Philosophy of Economics

Regulatory Policy

GV403

Network Regulation (H) +

LL406

Introduction to Regulation (H)

LL407

Media and Communications Regulation (H) +

LL446

Regulation: Legal and Political Aspects

LL484

Regulation of Financial Markets

LL4S1

Cyberlaw (H)

MC403

Contemporary Issues in Media and Communications Regulation (H)

SO425

Regulation, Risk and Economic Life (n/a 11/12)

Governance

GV442

Globalisation and Democracy (H)*

GV477

Comparative Public policy Change (H) ***

GV482

Political Science and Political Economy: Advanced Topics (H) ***

GV4C4

Legislative Politics: US (H) (L)

GV4C5

Politics of Economic Policy (H)

PH415

Philosophy and Public Policy

SA4F8

Behavioural Public Policy (H)

SO469

Risk and Governance: A Sociological Approach (H)

Europe

EU420

European Union Law (H) ‡

EU421

Policy-Making in the European Union (H) ‡

EU425

Interest Representation and Economic Policy-Making in Europe

EU443

European Models of Capitalism (H) +

EU446

Patterns of Economic Integration in Europe: Institutions and Politics of EMU (H) +

EU453

The Political Economy of European Welfare States (H) +

EU455

Concepts in Political Economy (H) ‡

SA4F7

The Economics of European Social Policy (H) +

EU463

European Human Rights Law (H)

GV4C6

Legislative Politics: European Parliament (H) (L) ~ +

Institutions, Politics and policies of the EU

EU430

 

Europeanization: The Comparative Politics of Domestic Change (H) +

EU436

Law and Governance of the Single European Market + (n/a 11/12)

EU439

Political and Fiscal Integration and Disintegration in EU Member States (H) +

Central and Eastern Europe Transition and Reform

EU447

 

Democracy, Ideology and the European State (H) +

EU449

The Political Economy of Transition and EU Accession in Central and Eastern Europe (H) +

Regional courses

EU423

 

Greece and the European Union (H) (n/a 11/12)

EU429

Economic and Social Policy in Mediterranean Europe (H)

EU434

The Political Economy of Southeast Europe (H)

EU438

Turkey: Political Economy and European Integration (H)

EU440

Greece and South-East Europe: Government, Economy and Foreign Policy (H)

Management of Organisations 

AC412

Accountability, Organisations and Risk Management (H)

AC470

Accounting in the Global Economy (H)

AC490

Management Accounting, Decisions and Control (H)

AC491

Financial Accounting, Reporting and Disclosure (H)

AN421

The Anthropology of Industrialisation and Industrial Life (H)

GV4E4

Public Budgeting and Financial Management #

GV483

Public Management Theory and Doctrine (H) #

ID410

Management of Human Resources (H) +

ID411

International and Comparative Human Resource Management (H)

ID419

Cross Cultural Management (H)

ID420

Leadership in Organisations: Theory and Practice (H)

ID430

Organisational Behaviour (H) 

ID431

Organisational Change (H)

IS470

Innovation and Information Systems: Concepts and Perspectives (H)

MG402

Public Management: A Strategic Approach (H)

MG419

Public Management- Strategy, Innovation and Delivery #

MN404

Incentives and Governance in Organizations (B) (H)

MN415

The Analysis of Strategy (A) (H)

MN416

The Analysis of Strategy (B) (H) ***

MN419

Systems Thinking and Strategic Modelling (H)

OR431

System Dynamics Modelling (H) (n/a 11/12)

Notes

* With permission of the course teacher.
** Because of the extremely demanding standard of LSE Economics, these options are available only to students with very good first degrees in Economics and with the permission of the Economics Department. Any student wishing to take these courses must be admitted to the September course in Mathematics, Statistics, Economics (EC400) or Econometrics at the beginning of their first or second year and pass the course examinations (50%). Students taking more than 1 Economics option must take one of EC402, EC411 or EC413.
*** Courses have prerequisites or pre-screening assessment.
 # Not available to MPA Public Policy and Management students
## For MPA International Development students or with the permission of the course teacher.
### Not available to MPA International Development
+ Option falling within the broad area of European public policy (for MPA European Public and Economic Policy).
~ Students must not take both GV4C4 and GV4C6.
Not available to MPA European Public and Economic Policy.

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