MSc in Political Science and Political Economy
Programme code: TMPSPE
Department: Government
This information is for the 2017/18 session.
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.
Paper |
Course number and title | |
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1 |
Political Science and Political Economy (H) | |
2 |
Game Theory for Political Science (H) | |
3 |
Applied Regression Analysis (H) | |
4 |
Causal Inference for Observational and Experimental Studies (H) | |
5 |
One of the following: | |
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Parties, Elections and Governments (H) (not available 2017/18) | ||
Political Science and Political Economy: Advanced Topics (H) (not available 2017/18) | ||
Citizens' Political Behaviour in Europe: Elections Public Opinion and Identities (H) | ||
Social Choice Theory and Democracy (H) (not available 2017/18) | ||
Legislative Politics: US (H) (cannot be taken with GV4C6) (not available 2017/18) | ||
Politics of Economic Policy (H) | ||
Legislative Politics: European Parliament (H) (cannot be taken with GV4C4) (not available 2017/18) | ||
Institutions in the Global Economy (H) | ||
Applied Quantitative Methods for Political Science (H) | ||
Behavioural and Experimental Political Economy (H) (not available 2017/18) | ||
Public Opinion, Political Psychology and Citizenship (H) | ||
Game Theory for Research (H) (not available 2017/18) | ||
6 |
One half unit course (or if MY452 is not taken under Paper 3, courses to the value of one full unit). | |
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A second course listed under Paper 5, above | |
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Development Management * | ||
Economic Development Policy I: Applied Policy Analysis for Macroeconomic Development (H) | ||
Economic Development Policy II: Microeconomic Analysis (H) | ||
Economic Development Policy III: Government Policy Analysis (H) | ||
Micro and Macro Economics for Public Policy * | ||
Political Economy * | ||
Political and Fiscal Integration and Disintegration in EU Member States (H) | ||
The Political Economy of European Monetary Integration (H) * | ||
Emerging Markets, Political Transition and Economic Development in Central and Eastern Europe (H) * (not available 2017/18) | ||
The Political Economy of European Welfare States (H) * | ||
Labour Markets and the Political Economy of Employment in Europe (H) | ||
States and Markets (H) | ||
The Politics of Inequality and Redistribution (H) | ||
Capitalism and Democracy (H) | ||
GV4E4 |
Public Budgeting and Financial Management * (withdrawn 2017/18) | |
Conflict and Institutional Design in Divided Societies (H) | ||
Fiscal Governance and Budgeting (H) | ||
Global Environmental Politics (H) * | ||
The Political Economy of Trade (H) * | ||
Politics of Money in the World Economy (H) * | ||
Multivariate Analysis and Measurement (H) | ||
Special Topics in Quantitative Analysis: Quantitative Text Analysis (H) | ||
The Economics of European Social Policy (H) * (not available 2017/18) | ||
Behavioural Public Policy (H) | ||
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Another half-unit or full-unit course taught in the Government Department or elsewhere in the school, with the approval of the Programme Convenor. | |
7 |
Dissertation | |
Notes |
* Courses with restricted access, which require the approval of the course convenor. | |
