Institutions and Public Policies

The course in Institutions and Public Policy (IPP) contributes to the main goal of the Master Programme in Political Science and Government of providing knowledge of the rules and dynamics underneath the functioning of legal and political institutions and developing the critical tools to analyze and evaluate legislative and governmental actions.

IPP lectures, materials, and exercises will make students able to:
- establish the relevance of policy designs in light of proper public policy theories;
- analyze policy designs to pinpoint their policy-effective components;
- make sense of policy-effective components in light of citizenship and democratization theories;
- identify assumptions, hypotheses, and evidence in argumentation, and establish the consequentiality of their linkages.