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MSc in Political Science and Political Economy

Programme Code: TMPSPE

Department: Government

For students starting this programme of study in 2018/19

Guidelines for interpreting programme regulations

Classification scheme for the award of a taught master's degree (four units)
Exam sub-board local rules

Full-year programme. Students must take courses to the value of three full units and a dissertation as shown below.

Students are strongly recommended to take the non-assessed pre-sessional course GV4J7. Students who wish to choose an Economics course as an option are required to attend EC400.

Please note that places are limited on some optional courses. Admission onto any particular course is not guaranteed and may be subject to timetabling constraints and/or students meeting specific prerequisite requirements.

Paper

Course number, title (unit value)

Introductory course 1

Students are strongly recommended to take the following non-assessed introductory course:

 

GV4J7 Introductory Mathematics for Political Science (0.0)

Introductory course 2

Students who wish to choose an Economics course as an option are required to attend the following introductory course:

 

EC400 Introductory Course in Mathematics and Statistics (0.0) #

Paper 1

GV481 Political Science and Political Economy (0.5)

Paper 2

GV4C8 Game Theory for Political Science (0.5)

Paper 3

MY457 Causal Inference for Observational and Experimental Studies (0.5) #

Paper 4

Courses to the value of 0.5 unit(s) from the following:

 

GV454 Parties, Elections and Governments (0.5) #

 

GV482 Political Science and Political Economy: Advanced Topics (0.5) #  (withdrawn 2019/20)

 

GV4A2 Citizens' Political Behaviour in Europe: Elections Public Opinion and Identities (0.5) #  (not available 2019/20)

 

GV4A3 Social Choice Theory and Democracy (0.5) #  (not available 2019/20)

 

GV4C4 Legislative Politics: US (0.5) 1  (withdrawn 2018/19)

 

GV4C5 Politics of Economic Policy (0.5)  (not available 2019/20)

 

GV4C6 Legislative Politics: European Parliament (0.5) 2  (withdrawn 2018/19)

 

GV4F8 Institutions and Global Trade (0.5)

 

GV4G1 Applied Quantitative Methods for Political Science (0.5) #

 

GV4H6 Behavioural Political Economy (0.5) #

 

GV4J3 Public Opinion, Political Psychology and Citizenship (0.5) #  (not available 2019/20)

 

GV4J6 Game Theory for Research (0.5) #

 

GV4K1 Transparency and Accountability in Government (0.5)

Papers 5 & 6

MY452 Applied Regression Analysis (0.5) # A

 

And
One half-unit from the following list (or if MY452 is not taken, courses to the value of one full unit from the following list):

 

DV431 Development Management (1.0) *

 

DV490 Economic Development Policy I: Applied Policy Analysis for Macroeconomic Development (0.5)

 

DV491 Economic Development Policy II: Microeconomic Analysis (0.5) #

 

EC453 Political Economy (1.0) # *  (not available 2019/20)

 

EU439 Political and Fiscal Integration and Disintegration in EU Member States (0.5)

 

EU446 The Political Economy of European Monetary Integration (0.5) # *

 

EU449 Emerging Markets, Political Transition and Economic Development in Central and Eastern Europe (0.5) # *

 

EU453 The Political Economy of European Welfare States (0.5) # *

 

EU477 Labour Markets and the Political Economy of Employment in Europe (0.5) #

 

GV441 States and Markets (0.5)

 

GV4D4 The Politics of Inequality and Redistribution (0.5)

 

GV4E2 Capitalism and Democracy (0.5)

 

GV4E8 Conflict and Institutional Design in Divided Societies (0.5)

 

IR467 Global Environmental Politics (0.5) *

 

IR468 The Political Economy of Trade (0.5) *

 

IR469 Politics of Money in the World Economy (0.5) *

 

MY455 Multivariate Analysis and Measurement (0.5) #

 

MY459 Special Topics in Quantitative Analysis: Quantitative Text Analysis (0.5) #

 

PP440 Micro and Macro Economics (for Public Policy) (1.0) *

 

PP4J5 Fiscal Governance and Budgeting (0.5)

 

SA4F7 The Economics of European Social Policy (0.5) # *  (withdrawn 2018/19)

 

SA4F8 Behavioural Public Policy (0.5)  (withdrawn 2019/20)

 

Another half-unit or full-unit course taught in the Government Department or elsewhere in the school, with the approval of the Programme Convenor.

Paper 7

GV499 Dissertation (1.0)

Prerequisite Requirements and Mutually Exclusive Options

* means available with permission

1 : GV4C4 can not be taken with GV4C6

2 : GV4C6 can not be taken with GV4C4

Footnotes

A : MY452 must be taken in Michaelmas Term. It can be substituted with another option from Papers 5 & 6 if a student can demonstrate they have already taken a course with multivariate regression.

# means there may be prerequisites for this course. Please view the course guide for more information.

* These courses have restricted access and require the approval of the course convenor.

Note for prospective students:

For changes to graduate course and programme information for the next academic session, please see the graduate summary page for prospective students. Changes to course and programme information for future academic sessions can be found on the graduate summary page for future students.