入学要求 Requirement：
学术要求：Upper second class honours degree or overseas equivalent in any discipline.
英语要求：IELTS 7.0 or internet-based TOEFL 107
学费 Tuition Fee：2012/2013 £16,512
课程特征 Course Features：
The MSc Political Science and Political Economy provides a sound professional training in formal political science and in quantitative oriented approaches to political economy. Students will acquire the knowledge and techniques to analyse political processes, institutional design and public policy making in liberal democracies. It should be of particular interest for students who intend to take courses in political economy, elections, legislature, executive governments, public policy, development, and international political economy within the framework of a political science oriented programme.
课程内容 Course Content ：
Compulsory courses
(* half unit)
•Political Science and Political Economy*
•Game Theory for Political Science*
•Applied Quantitative Methods for Political Science*
•Applied Regression Analysis* (or another option if student can demonstrate they have taken a course with multivariate regression)
•Dissertation
Options
Select options to the value of one unit (if full unit analysis core course taken) or 1.5 units (if half unit analysis core course taken):
•Parties, Elections and Governments*
•Political Science and Political Economy: Advanced Topics*
•Citizens' Political Behaviour in Europe*
•Social Choice Theory and Democracy*
•Legislative Politics: United States*
•Politics of Economic Policy*
•Legislative Politics: European Parliament*
•Institutions in the Global Economy*
•Economic Development Policy
•Development Management
•Political Economy
•Micro and Macro Economics for Public Policy
•Economic and Social Policy in Mediterranean Europe*
•Political and Fiscal Integration and Disintegration in EU Member States*
•Patterns of Economic Integration in Europe: Institutions and Politics of EMU*
•The Political Economy of Transition and EU Accession in Central & Eastern Europe*
•The Political Economy of European Welfare States*
•The Economics of European Social Policy*
•States and Markets*
•The Politics of Inequality and Redistribution*
•Capitalism and Democracy*
•Public Budgeting and Financial Management
•International Political Economy of the Environment
•Politics of Money in the World Economy
•The Political Economy of International Trade
•Comparative Political Economy
•Multivariate Analysis and Measurement*
•Special Topics in Quantitative Analysis*
•Behavioural Public Policy*
Another half unit or full unit course taught in the Government Department or elsewhere in the School, with the approval of the programme convener.