TEACHING

BA/BSc Politics – optional second-year module

BA/BSc Political Economy – optional second-year module

BA Politics, Philosophy and Economics – optional second-year module

This module provides an introduction to policy analysis: understanding how policy is made and what impact it has. The module introduces the concept of the policy process – understanding policy-making in terms of decision, implementation and evaluation. Students will seek to understand why governments do some things, but not others, why policy is often not implemented effectively, and to judge and measure policy success and failure.

MA Public Policy – optional module

MSc Political Economy – optional module

By examining a series of key texts in contemporary political theory, this module will enable students to better understand the underlying philosophical and theoretical issues that inform contemporary public policy-making and to critically evaluate those ideas. The texts studied include: John Rawls, A Theory of Justice; Robert Nozick, Anarchy, State, and Utopia; Iris Marion Young, Justice and the Politics of Difference; F. A. Hayek, The Mirage of Social Justice; Tommie Shelby, Dark Ghettos; and Elizabeth Anderson, What is the point of equality?