POL3100   Explaining Politics   (20 credits)

Description

This is the final year component of the skills spine in the Politics undergraduate curriculum, taken by all students. Building on the previous two skills modules, this module encourages students to draw on the broad range of the studies, to focus on the various ways in which we explain politics and political outcomes. Taking a single empirical case, a 'big issue' as its core, the module explores various explanations - institutional, structural, ideational, psychological - that can be used, drawing on cognate disciplines such as history, sociology, economics and psychology. Students will then apply these explanatory modes to an aspect of the core empirical case.

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