Advanced Introduction to Policy

• • A week-by-week guide to the topics you will explore in this subject will be provided in your study materials.

In order to enrol in this subject, you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:

Core

• MAQ-PSP-MAS-2020

Special requirements

No special requirements

This unit focuses on how policy is made and who makes it. Taking an international perspective, the unit introduces students to the policy process, the state and societal actors that cooperate (and fight) over policy and to the context in which they operate. Students will engage in peer learning, discuss cases studies as well as write on policy issues using the materials and concepts presented in the unit. The topics covered indicatively include: The policy process; policy paradigms, networks, monopolies, cycles, and policy diffusion; the regulatory state; state autonomy and state capture; the reciprocal influence between state and society, with a focus on relationship between social capital and democratic governance; clientelism, its determinants, and its implications for policy-making; the decline of trust in public institutions in advanced democracies

• Participation (10%%)
• Peer learning exercise (20%%)
• Assessment report (50%%)
• Quizzes (20%%)