Pre-arrival Summer Readings

The following publications serve as a general background for the MPP Semester 1 courses in 2012-13. They are basic texts that will ease unfamiliar students into the issues covered in the MPP courses.

For the ‘Politics of Public Policy’ course:

John Hudson and Stuart Lowe (2009), UNDERSTANDING THE POLICY PROCESS 2nd ed. (Policy Press).

Institute for Government (2011), POLICY MAKING IN THE REAL WORLD. Available here.

For the ‘Economics of Public Policy’ course:

N. Gregory Mankiw and Mark Taylor (2011), ECONOMICS 2nd ed. (Thompson Learning), chapters 10-12, 39.

OECD Cost Benefit Analysis and the Environment, Chapters 1 and 2 available here.

For the ‘Analysis for Policy’ course:

Eugene Bardach (2009), A PRACTICAL GUIDE FOR POLICY ANALYSIS 3rd ed. (CQ Press).

For the ‘International Dimensions of Public Policy’ course:

Andrew Heywood, GLOBAL POLITICS, (Palgrave, 2011).

John Baylis, Steve Smith and Patricia Owens (eds.) (2010), THE GLOBALIZATION OF WORLD POLITICS 5th ed. (Oxford University Press).

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Eve Hepburn

Dr Eve Hepburn

"The Academy of Government seeks to encourage students to think across boundaries, disciplines and the academia-practice divide, in the footsteps of the great philosophers who emerged from this University – David Hume, Adam Smith and William Ferguson to name a few. We are proud of our Scottish Enlightenment roots and our commitment to societal progress, improvement and justice"