Public Policy and Administration – (M.Sc.)

Contents

Compulsory Courses

(* half unit)

* Approaches and Issues in Public Policy and Administration
* either Public Management Theory and Doctrine* or Comparative Public Policy Change* or The Politics of Policy Advice*
* either Quantitative Analysis I: Description and Inference or Quantitative Analysis II: The Generalised Linear Model*
* Dissertation of 10,000 words on a topic chosen in discussion with your supervisor

Options
A total of one full unit from the following:

Public Management

* Accountability, Organisations and Risk Management*
* Public Management of Development*
* Public Management: Theory and Doctrine*
* Public Management: a Strategic Approach*
* Citizens' Political Behaviour in Europe: Elections, Public Opinion and Identities*
* Public Budgeting and Financial Management
* Introduction to Regulation*
* Philosophy and Public Policy*
* Social and Political Aspects of Regional and Urban Planning*
* Environmental Problems, Politics and Development*
* Global Environmental Governance*
* Systems Thinking and Strategic Modelling*

Comparative Public Policy and Administration

* Policy-Making in the European Union*
* European Models of Capitalism*
* Network Regulation*
* States and Markets*
* Public Policy Responses to International Migration*
* Legislative Politics: US* †
* Politics of Economic Policy*
* Legislative Politics: European Parliament* †
* Comparative Politics of Redistribution in Advanced Democracies*
* Media and Communication Regulation*
* European Social Policy
* Behavioural Public Policy*
* Institutions in the Global Economy*
* Politics of Social Policy: Welfare and Work in Comparative Perspective*

Please note that not every course is necessarily available every year, and some may only be available with permission of the course tutor. Please refer to the Government Department's website for a more up to date index of available courses.

It may be possible, with the permission of the programme convener, to substitute a course from the options list with any other course taught in the Department or by other departments at LSE.



About the research programme
As above for the MSc Public Policy and Administration, substituting the quantitative analysis and one half-unit option from the options list with:

Either Foundations of Social Research 1 or Foundations of Social Research 2

† May not be taken together