After the end of Communism, many cities in Eastern Europe are undergoing rapid social and economic change, which has had major effects on the physical outlook...

After the end of Communism, many cities in Eastern Europe are undergoing rapid social and economic change, which has had major effects on the physical outlook of these cities. It also has affected the ways in which people, urbanites as well as non-urbanites, perceive these cities and urban life in general. This course wants to offer an anthropological insight into how city dwellers, in the post-socialist context, perceive and use this rapidly transforming urban space, as well as how they try to shape and appropriate it.

Political Theory|Public Policy|Public Policy and Administration

This module provides a comparative examination of health policy together with a study of policy reforms in the organisation and financing of health care. It...

This module provides a comparative examination of health policy together with a study of policy reforms in the organisation and financing of health care. It enables students to analyse and evaluate different kinds of health systems and the likely health, financial and political effects of current reform proposals. The main aims of the module are:

• To enable students to describe and analyse health systems in terms of their basic financial, organisational characteristics.

• To evaluate the effects of commonly advocated reforms on the health status of populations.

• To identify the principal political issues likely to affect health systems reform in the future.

All public policy is based at least partly on ethical ideas; through their policies, governments aim to advance a vision of how the world should be. Just as...

All public policy is based at least partly on ethical ideas; through their policies, governments aim to advance a vision of how the world should be. Just as those who exercise public power should be able to justify their policy decisions to citizens, citizens should be able to evaluate the policies that govern their societies. In this spirit, this module will explore the ethical ideas that underpin policy choices. Each week features a substantive policy issue as a means of illuminating key ethical concepts, theories and debates. In so doing, the module aims to equip students to think systematically and critically about fundamental issues in public policy, to make up their own minds about a range of contemporary policy issues, and to sharpen their skills of written and oral argumentation. 