POLITICS 735

Policy, Knowledge and Power

Please note: this is archived course information from 2012 for POLITICS 735.

Description

The focusing question for this course is "What constitutes good policy-making"? This question is examined from four competing perspectives which emphasise technical expertise, bargaining, negotiation and brokerage between conflicting interests and advocacy, coalitions, the usage of market-like mechanisms and disciplines and models of participatory democracy applied to policy-making settings. In doing so, themes of knowledge, rationality, legitimacy and power are examined.

NB: enrolment is limited to 25 students, with selection criteria as follows: 1) admission to a postgraduate programme in Political Studies; 2) results in previous tertiary study in relevant subjects.

Availability 2012

Not taught in 2012

Lecturer(s)

TBA

Points

POLITICS 735: 15 points