MSc Public Policy and Administration MSc Public Policy and Administration (Research)

About the MSc programmes

These programmes are based in the Department of Government| and offer the following benefits:

• One of the highest ESRC ratings for Political Science MSc programmes.
• Teaching by world renowned major figures in public administration, public policy and political science.
• A good preparation for further research work or for a career in education, public administration or the private sector.

We will consider applicants with good first degrees in any discipline, with a considered interest in the area covered by the MSc.

By taking appropriate combinations of courses students can obtain the MSc with a specialised stream in Comparative Public Policy and Administration or Public Management. Students can choose one specialisation to be noted on their degree certificates.

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 Introduction to Quantitative Analysis* or Applied Regression Analysis*
• 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 and Development Interventions*
• 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* †
• The Politics of Inequality and Redistribution*
• Media and Communication Regulation* 
• The Governance of Welfare: The Nation State and the European Union*
• Contemporary Issues in 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