International Development: Public Policy and Management – (M.A.)

The programme is designed to provide:

* a comprehensive knowledge of the main concepts and skills required to provide leadership in public policy formulation and implementation within a development framework;
* an opportunity to undertake a range of optional subjects to satisfy the specialist needs relevant to modern public sector management and public policy in a changing environment;
* an understanding of the design, implementation, and evaluation of public policy in developing countries;
* an infrastructure for postgraduate research in the fields of public policy and public management, in developing and transitional economies.

Course aims At the end of this programme students will:

* have an understanding of the different conceptual and theoretical perspectives applied to public policy and management
* have an understanding of the principles and practices underlying the implementation of public policy and management processes
* have developed skills in initial analysis of public policy and management and in communicating their analysis in the form of clearly written and readable documents
* have a good command of current theory, policy and practice in relation to some of the following specialist areas; public policy process and methods, public sector economics, development and economic policy, privatisation and pubic enterprise reform, public sector accounting and organisational change
* have developed basic research skills through a supervised dissertation project