| Detailed information |
| Pre-requisites |
(*)keine (die Zulassung zum Studium vorausgesetzt)
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| Original study plan |
Master's programme Social Economics 2025W |
| Learning Outcomes |
Competences |
- Students are able to understand, critically reflect on, and apply selected approaches of comparative policy analysis to their own research questions.
- They are capable of critically applying different theoretical perspectives to political processes and discussing their implications for policy analysis.
- Students can develop their own academic arguments based on solid theoretical knowledge and convincingly present them in scholarly debates.
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| Skills |
Knowledge |
- Understand approaches of comparative policy analysis (k2).
- Weigh the strengths and weaknesses of these approaches (k2).
- Apply comparative policy research approaches to their own research questions in the context of Master's theses (k3).
- Reflect on the key arguments in scholarly articles on comparative policy research (k2).
- Critically analyse the core argumentation structures and analytical methodologies of major research approaches in comparative policy analysis (k4).
- Independently evaluate and defend the advantages and weaknesses of different theories and approaches (k5).
- Systematically engage with complex academic texts from international comparative policy research and integrate them into their own analyses (k6).
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- Define key theoretical approaches in comparative policy analysis and explain their foundations.
- Understand ideologies, interests, and power as explanatory factors in policy analysis and assess their role.
- Comprehend the institutional framework of political decision-making processes and their impact on policy development in different political systems.
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| Criteria for evaluation |
(*)Abhängig vom didaktischen Konzept: Klausur und eine weitere mündliche oder schriftliche Leistung.
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| Methods |
(*)Abhängig vom didaktischen Konzept: Vortrag durch die Lehrenden, Einzelübungen
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| Language |
German or English |
| Study material |
(*)Die Literatur wird von den Lehrenden zu Beginn der LVA bekanntgegeben.
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| Changing subject? |
No |
| Corresponding lecture |
(*)928WSTHWSTK10: VU Wohlfahrtsstaatstheorien (6 ECTS)
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