Political Studies

Dottorati
Doctoral programme (PhD)
A.Y. 2023/2024
Study area
Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
Doctoral programme (PhD)
3
Years
Dipartimento di Scienze sociali e politiche - Via Conservatorio, 7 - Milano
English
The interuniversity doctoral programme in Political Studies (POLS) integrates coherently empirical-positive and theoretical-normative approaches in political science. The programme therefore provides students with the methodological tools and cultural background common to the various lines of study and research, and a solid specialised preparation in four main areas, which may in some cases overlap:
a) institutions and public policy;
b) political theory and political philosophy;
c) international studies;
d) political communication, public opinion and political behaviour.
In order to promote the internationalization of the doctoral programme, English will be the official language.
The POLS doctoral programme aims to form not only young researchers who can engage in international academia but also professional figures able to undertake research, provide consultancy, coordinate and manage private research centres, think tanks, and political and economic organizations, both private and public, in regional, national and international contexts.
Tutte le classi di laurea magistrale - All classes of master's degree
Dipartimento di Scienze sociali e politiche - Via Conservatorio, 7 - Milano
Title Professor(s)
African politics
M. Bogaards
Ageing, elderly and Long term care
Agents and agency in policy-making
G. Capano
Analysis of Legal Concepts
Analysis of Political Concepts
F. Battegazzorre
Antipolitics and Populism
G. Bobba
F. Chiapponi
Anti-poverty policies
Attitudes towards politics
G. Legnante
Big Data, text and image analytics, social-media analysis and machine learning algorithms
Bioethics, Law, and Politics
Civil disobedience
Coalition governments
Company-based Welfare
Comparative education and higher education policy
G. Capano
Comparative electoral behavior
G. Legnante
Comparative Institutions
F. Battegazzorre
Comparative Labor Policy
S. Sacchi
G. Bonoli
Comparative legislative, executive and bureaucratic politics
Comparative methodological strategies
Comparative Migration Policy
T. Caponio
Comparative Political Economy
G. Bonoli
S. Sacchi
Comparative Social Policy
S. Sacchi
P. Vesan
G. Bonoli
Comparative welfare state
G. Bonoli
Conjoint analysis and valence voting
Contemporary liberal theory
Corruption
Courts
Defence policy
A. Locatelli
Democratic performance
M. Boogards
Democratic Theory
Democratization
M. Bogaards
Digitalization, social and employment policies
S. Sacchi
Economy 4.0 and public policies
S. Sacchi
Eco-social welfare
Electoral behavior
G. Legnante
Electoral Campaigns
G. Legnante
G. Bobba
Empirical Political Theory
F. Battegazzorre
Environmental policy
EU Social and Economic Governance
P. Vesan
European Foreign and Security Policy
A. Locatelli
European Integration: policies, politics and institutions (socio-economic governance)
M. Clementi
European Union Policies
T. Caponio
Europeanization
G. Bobba
Executive and Legislative Politics of the European Union
Feminist Legal Theories
Foreign Policy Analysis
M. Clementi
Generations and Politics
G. Legnante
Geopolitics
M. Clementi
Governance processes in local development policies
P. Vesan
Healthcare policy
Human Rights and Normative Pluralism
Human Rights and Women's Rights: History and Theories
Humanitarian Intervention and R2P
Hybrid regimes
M. Boogards
Immigration
T. Caponio
Interdiisciplinarity
International Relations
M. Clementi
A. Locatelli
Intraparty Politics
Italian Politics
F. Chiapponi
G. Legnante
Law and Politics
Legal Theories
Legislative Studies
LGBT+ Rights and Politics
Local government and governance
T. Caponio
Media and Politics
G. Legnante
F. Chiapponi
Methodological issues in political philosophy
Middle East
V. Parsi
Migration policy and politics
T. Caponio
Military Intervention
Minimum income protection in comparative perspective: policy and politics
Models of Compromise
Multilevel governance
T. Caponio
Multilevel governance of immigration and immigrant integration policies
T. Caponio
NATO and Transatlantic Relations
M. Clementi
Neo-institutional analysis
G. Bonoli
Occupational welfare
Organization of business interest
Party and Party Systems
M. Boogards
Party Politics
F. Chiapponi
Pluralism of values and political disagreements
Policy advisory and evidence based Policy
G. Capano
Policy change: drivers and mechanisms
G. Capano
Policy design
G. Capano
Policy implications of electoral rules
Policy learning
P. Vesan
G. Capano
T. Caponio
Policy mechanism design and policy analysis
Policy tools
G. Capano
Political communication
G. Legnante
G. Bobba
F. Chiapponi
Political Institutions
F. Battegazzorre
F. Chiapponi
Political Parties
F. Chiapponi
Politics and development
Public administration
G. Capano
Public Justification and political legitimacy
Public opinion
G. Legnante
G. Bobba
Public policy and evaluation
Public-Private Partnership
Qualitative methods
Quantitative methods
Rational choice Theory and Formal modeling
Realism in IR Theory
Representation
Second Welfare
Security Studies
M. Clementi
A. Locatelli
Social Innovation
Social Investment
Social Rights and Distributive Justice
Spatial theory of voting
Strategic Studies
Text analysis
The politics of public policies
G. Capano
The politics of social policies
P. Vesan
G. Bonoli
Theories of Fundamental Rights and Constitutionalism
Theories of Justice and Injustice
Transatlantic Relations
V. Parsi
Truth and politics
Urban policy and governance
T. Caponio
US Foreign Policy
M. Clementi
Valence politics
Vulnerability: normative and social dimensions
War Studies
Welfare and Philanthropy
Work-life balance and family policies in comparative perspective

Courses list

October 2023
Courses or activities Professor(s) ECTS Total hours Language
Compulsory
Logic and Epistemology of the Social Sciences 3 20 English
The Language of Mathematics in Contemporary Social Sciences 6 40 English
November 2023
Courses or activities Professor(s) ECTS Total hours Language
Compulsory
Game Theory 3 20 English
Topics in Rational Choice Institutionalism 3 20 English
March 2024
Courses or activities Professor(s) ECTS Total hours Language
Compulsory
Applied Multivariate Analysis for Social Scientists B 3 20 English
April 2024
Courses or activities Professor(s) ECTS Total hours Language
Compulsory
Project Colloquium 3 20 English
May 2024
Courses or activities Professor(s) ECTS Total hours Language
Compulsory
Political Philosophy 3 20 English
Qualitative Research Methods 3 20 English
Courses or activities Professor(s) ECTS Total hours Language
Compulsory
Advanced Statistical Methods for Computational Social Science I 3 20 Italian

Enrolment

Places available: 8

Call for applications

Please refer to the call for admission test dates and contents, and how to register.

Application for admission: from 06/04/2023 to 05/05/2023

Application for matriculation: from 06/06/2023 to 12/06/2023

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