MSc in Political Science and Political Economy

Programme code: TMPSPE

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

Paper

Course number and title

1

GV481

Political Science and Political Economy (H)

2

GV4C8

Game Theory for Political Science (H)

3

MY452

Applied Regression Analysis (H)
(Must be taken in Term 1. Course can be substituted with an option from paper 6 if a student can demonstrate they have already taken a course with multivariate regression).

4

MY457

Causal Inference for Observational and Experimental Studies (H)

5

One of the following:

 

EC453

Political Economy*

GV454

Parties, Elections and Governments (H)

GV482

Political Science and Political Economy: Advanced Topics (H)

GV4A2

Citizens' Political Behaviour in Europe: Elections Public Opinion and Identities (H) (n/a 15/16)

GV4A3

Social Choice Theory and Democracy (H)

GV4C4

Legislative Politics: US (H) (cannot be taken with GV4C6) (n/a 15/16)

GV4C5

Politics of Economic Policy (H)

GV4C6

Legislative Politics: European Parliament (H) (cannot be taken with GV4C4)

GV4F8

Institutions in the Global Economy (H)

GV4G1

Applied Quantitative Methods for Political Science (H)

GV4H6

Behavioural and Experimental Political Economy (H) (n/a 15/16)

GV4J3

Public Opinion, Political Psychology and Citizenship (H)

6

One half unit course (or if MY452 is not taken under paper 3, courses to the value of one full unit).

 

A second course listed under 5, above

 

DV431

Development Management*

DV490

Economic Development Policy I: Applied Policy Analysis for Macroeconomic Development (H)

DV491

Economic Development Policy II: Microeconomic Analysis (H)

DV492

Economic Development Policy III: Government Policy Analysis (H)

EC440

Micro and Macro Economics for Public Policy*

 

EU439

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

 

EU446

The Political Economy of European Monetary Integration (H)*

 

EU449

Emerging Markets, Political Transition and Economic Development in Central and Eastern Europe (H)*

 

EU453

The Political Economy of European Welfare States (H)*

 

GV441

States and Markets (H)

 

GV4D4

The Politics of Inequality and Redistribution (H)

 

GV4E2

Capitalism and Democracy (H)

GV4E4

Public Budgeting and Financial Management*

GV4E8

Conflict and Institutional Design in Divided Societies (H) (n/a 15/16)

IR460

Comparative Political Economy (n/a 15/16)

IR467

International Political Economy of the Environment (H)* (n/a 15/16)

 

IR468

The Political Economy of Trade (H)*

 

IR469

Politics of Money in the World Economy (H)*

 

MY455

Multivariate Analysis and Measurement (H)

MY459

Special Topics in Quantitative Analysis: Quantitative Text Analysis (H)

SA4F7

The Economics of European Social Policy (H)* (n/a 15/16)

SA4F8

Behavioural Public Policy (H)

 

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

GV499

Dissertation

Notes

* courses with restricted access, which require the approval of the course convenor.