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 Academic Year:
| 2015/6 |
| Owning Department/School:
| Department of Social & Policy Sciences |
| Credits:
| 6 |
| Level:
| Masters UG & PG (FHEQ level 7) |
| Period: |
Semester 1 |
| Assessment Summary:
| CW 100% |
| Assessment Detail: |
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| Supplementary Assessment: |
Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations) |
| Requisites: | |
| Description:
| Aims: This unit aims to provide students with * an advanced understanding of different approaches towards analysing policy and governance; * skills that will enable them to apply these approaches to different public policy issues at different levels of analysis; that is international, regional (eg EU), national and sub-national levels. Learning Outcomes: By the end of this unit, students will have: * explored the major methods and modes of policy analysis; * applied one or more of these analytical methods in a policy topic. By the end of this unit students should be able to: * apply different techniques to provide analysis for the purposes of informing the process of policy making; * apply different techniques to provide analysis for the purposes of the academic study of policy, oriented towards social theory; * understand the role of analysis in the social policy process as well as the role of analysis in the process of societal and politico-economic governance. Skills: Intellectual skills: * to think creatively and analytically; * to communicate an argument; * to critically evaluate and assess research and evidence as well as a variety of other information; * to synthesise information from a number of sources in order to gain a coherent undertstanding. Transferable/Key skills: * essay research, preparation and writing skills; * group work skills; * policy research skills; * presentation skills and verbal communication (ie oral presentations, seminar contributions). Knowledge outcomes: * Theoretical basis of different concepts towards understanding different modes of policy analysis; * Knowledge of the current developments and contemporary research in different modes of policy analysis. Content: Introduction 1. Governance, politics and the policy process: the role of analysis; 2. Modes and levels of Policy Analysis. Part I - Analysis FOR policy 3. Assessing needs and defining policy problems; 4. Policy, forecasting and impact assessment; 5. Policy monitoring and policy evaluation. Part II - Analysis OF policy 6. Analysing policy as discourse; Interpretive policy analysis and critical discourse analysis; 7. Analysing actors & the context of public policy making: institutional approaches, networks and stakeholder analysis; 8. Analysing across institutional levels, space and time; global and cross-national policy analysis. Part III - Policy Analysis, Polity and Governance 9. Governance as an approach and post-empirical policy analysis; 10. Communicating policy analysis: the socio-political role of the analyst; 11. Conclusion. |
| Programme availability: |
SP50249 is a Designated Essential Unit on the following programmes:Department of Social & Policy Sciences
SP50249 is Optional on the following programmes:Department of Social & Policy Sciences
SP50249 is available for Auditing on the following programmes:Department of Social & Policy Sciences
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