Aims: To discuss research that throws light on the psychological processes underlying decision making in a number of different applied domains. Objectives:...

Aims: To discuss research that throws light on the psychological processes underlying decision making in a number of different applied domains. Objectives: Students should come to appreciate both processes that are common to decision making in different domains of application and those that are specific to each domain.  They should be aware of recent developments in general theories of decision-making and of the manner in which these theories have been applied in different specific contexts.  Summary of module: The module covers major issues that are relevant to different domains (e.g., expertise; methods of improving decision making, advice giving and taking).  Lectures on specific applied domains (e.g., medical decision-making, legal decision-making, policy making, financial decision making, consumer decision making) are also included.

Comparative Politics|Human Rights|International Relations and Politics|Political Economy|Politics|Security

Module description

This module provides a first approximation to the study of Latin American politics, encompassing a wide range of topics in international...

Environmental Politics|Public Policy|Public Policy and Administration|Quantitative Analysis|Sustainability

regulation|business and government|public policy|global governance|public management

This module is designed to help students understand how business regulation operates in domestic and global contexts.  We examine the foundational reasons...

Political Economy|Public Policy|Public Policy and Administration

This module equips students with core knowledge in economics relevant for study in political science and public policy. How should policymakers use the...

This module equips students with core knowledge in economics relevant for study in political science and public policy. How should policymakers use the insights of economics to solve social problems? The aim of the module is to provide students with the ability to answer this question. It is taught through a mixture of lectures and case studies to provide practical as well as theoretical understanding to students with little or no background in economics. Students with little experience in economics can regard it as an introduction to "thinking like an economist". The module surveys theories and concepts on the interplay of politics and economics. At the end of this module students will be able to:
• explain central principles and theoretical concepts of economics;
• explain the distinctive role that economics plays in understanding politics and evaluating public policy;
• apply central economic principles and tools of economics to a variety of pressing debates in politics and public policy;
• understand the rationale and the economic implications of government policy.
The emphasis of the module is on the conceptual and methodological toolkit needed to understand the economic approach to policy. The module covers markets and market failures, efficiency and equity, valuation, taxation, trade, and more recent advances in public economics. The goal is to develop some analytical capacity and an intuitive understanding of economic issues.
This is an introductory level course for which there are no prerequisites.