MA in Legislative Studies

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University of Hull

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• Entry requirements
  Entry requirements The course's entry requirements are a good first degree in a relevant area (for instance, politics, international relations, law, administration, sociology, and so on). Individuals with a professional link with a parliamentary institution are particularly encouraged to apply. The medium of instruction is English, and those who do not speak English as a first language must achieve a score of 6.0 or higher on the IELTS or achieve comparable results on a comparable test.
• Academic title
  MA in Legislative Studies
• Course description
  Programme structure
  
  Core
  
  Parliament in the Contemporary Political System - Parliament
  & Government (Semester One)
  
  The aim of this module is to identify and analyse the
  consequences of Parliament for government in the United
  Kingdom. It considers the consequences for government in
  terms of elite recruitment and training, policy formulation
  and deliberation, the administration of government, and EU
  law-making.
  
  Comparative Legislatures - Systems and Cultures
  
  The aim of this module is to provide a basic understanding
  of the role of legislatures in the modern world and to
  establish what consequences legislatures now have for
  political systems. It focuses on basic methodological
  problems and on the impact of culture and party systems
  in determining the impact of legislatures on public policy.
  Options
  
  Graduate Workshop in Legislative Studies I
  
  Democratic Governance
  
  German Politics & Policy 1 - Historical & Institutional
  
  Framework
  
  Core
  
  Parliament in the Contemporary Political System - Parliament
  & Citizen (Semester Two)
  
  The aim of this module is to identify and analyse the
  consequences of the relationship between Parliament and
  citizen in the United Kingdom. It considers the relationship
  between Parliament and citizen in terms of enhancing
  legitimacy, acting as a 'grievance chaser', safety valve and
  interest articulator for constituents and organised and
  unorganised interests, and as a mobiliser and educator of
  the public and particular publics. It concludes with an
  assessment of the potential consequences of Parliament
  for the British polity in future decades.
  
  Comparative Legislatures - Structures and Activity
  
  The aim of the module is to complement the pre-requisite
  model - Comparative Legislatures: Systems and Cultures -
  in identifying the consequences of legislatures for political
  systems. It focuses on characteristics internal to legislatures
  in determining their impact on public policy and analyses
  legislative activity by parliamentarians and interest groups.
  
  Options
  
  Graduate Workshop in Legislative Studies II
  Research Sources and Techniques in Legislative Studies
  European Public Policy
  
  Period Three
  
  15,000 word dissertation on a topic approved by the
  course co-ordinator

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