Paper 1

GV4E9 Approaches and Issues in Public Policy and Administration (1.0)

Paper 2

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

GV477 Comparative Public Policy Change (0.5) #

GV483 Public Management Theory and Doctrine (0.5)

GV4F4 Policy Advice in Theory and Practice (0.5)

Paper 3

Courses to the value of 1.0 unit(s) from the following:

Public Management

AC412 Accountability, Organisations and Risk Management (0.5)

DV413 Environmental Problems and Development Interventions (0.5)

DV415 Global Environmental Governance (0.5)

GV483 Public Management Theory and Doctrine (0.5)

GV4A2 Citizens' Political Behaviour: Elections, Public Opinion and Identities (0.5) #

GV4C8 Game Theory for Political Science (0.5)

GV4K1 Participatory Governance (0.5)

GV4K8 Global Public Policy (0.5)

GV4L2 The Politics and Policy of Climate Change and Sustainability (0.5) #

GV4L3 Data Science Applications in Politics and Policy (0.5) #

MG402 Public Management: A Design-Oriented Approach (0.5)

MG492 Data Governance: Privacy, Openness and Transparency (0.5)

PP4J5 Fiscal Governance and Budgeting (0.5)

SP434 Behavioural Public Policy (0.5)

SP473 Policing, Security and Globalisation (0.5)

SP477 Crime, Justice & Social Policy (0.5)

Comparative Public Policy and Administration

EU421 Policy-Making in the European Union (0.5) #

EU443 European Models of Capitalism (0.5) #

EU481 The Future: 24-hour Society and its Discontents (0.5)

EU4A4 The Politics of Inequality and Redistribution (0.5)

GV477 Comparative Public Policy Change (0.5) #

GV4C8 Game Theory for Political Science (0.5)

GV4E8 Power Sharing and Institutional Design in Divided Societies (0.5)

GV4K1 Participatory Governance (0.5)

GV4K8 Global Public Policy (0.5)

GV4L2 The Politics and Policy of Climate Change and Sustainability (0.5) #

GV4L3 Data Science Applications in Politics and Policy (0.5) #

GV4L5 Politics, Gender, and Development (0.5) #

GV4L6 Political Economy of Inequality (0.5)

GV4L7 Political Participation and Representation in Latin America (0.5) (suspended 2025/26)

GV4M7 Politics, Crime, and Criminal Justice in Comparative Perspective (0.5) #

GV4M8 Transnational Actors, Politics and Policymaking in the Global South (0.5)

GV4N7 Politics of India (0.5)

GV4N8 The Politics of Ethnicity (0.5)

GY413 Regional Development and Policy (0.5) #

PP442 The Politics of Tech, Social Media, and the Press (0.5)

SP434 Behavioural Public Policy (0.5)

SP441 Politics of Social Policy (0.5)

SP473 Policing, Security and Globalisation (0.5)

Or another course with the permission of the programme convenor.

Paper 4

One from:

MY451A Introduction to Quantitative Analysis (0.5)

MY451W Introduction to Quantitative Analysis (0.5)

MY452A Applied Regression Analysis (0.5) #

MY452W Applied Regression Analysis (0.5) #

Paper 5

GV499 Dissertation (1.0)