Module POL3195 for 2016/7
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
POL3195: The Politics of Regulation: Risks and Regulatory Failures
This module descriptor refers to the 2016/7 academic year.
How this Module is Assessed
In the tables below, you will see reference to 'ILO's. An ILO is an Intended Learning Outcome - see Aims and Learning Outcomes for details of the ILOs for this module.
Formative Assessment
A formative assessment is designed to give you feedback on your understanding of the module content but it will not count towards your mark for the module.
Form of assessment | Size of the assessment (eg length / duration) | ILOs assessed | Feedback method |
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Individual Presentation | 10-15 min | 1-7 | Verbal feedback |
Summative Assessment
A summative assessment counts towards your mark for the module. The table below tells you what percentage of your mark will come from which type of assessment.
Coursework | Written exams | Practical exams |
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90 | 0 | 10 |
...and this table provides further details on the summative assessments for this module.
Form of assessment | % of credit | Size of the assessment (eg length / duration) | ILOs assessed | Feedback method |
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Essay 1 | 50 | 3,000 words | 1-7 | Written |
Essay 2 | 40 | 2,500 words | 1-7 | Written |
Seminar contribution | 10 | Assessed across the module | 1-7 | Written |
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0 |
Re-assessment
Re-assessment takes place when the summative assessment has not been completed by the original deadline, and the student has been allowed to refer or defer it to a later date (this only happens following certain criteria and is always subject to exam board approval). For obvious reasons, re-assessments cannot be the same as the original assessment and so these alternatives are set. In cases where the form of assessment is the same, the content will nevertheless be different.
Original form of assessment | Form of re-assessment | ILOs re-assessed | Timescale for re-assessment |
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Essay 1 | Essay 3,000 words | 1-7 | August/September reassessment period |
Essay 2 | Essay 2,500 words | 1-7 | August/September reassessment period |
Seminar contribution | Short overviews of 5 module topics (5 x 150 words) | 1-7 | August/September reassessment period |
Indicative Reading List
This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.
Basic reading:
Baldwin, R, Cave, M and Lodge, M eds (2010) The Oxford Handbook of Regulation, Oxford: OUP
Carpenter, D (2013) eds. Preventing Regulatory Capture: Special Group Interest Influence and How to Limit It, Cambridge University Press.
Carpenter, D (2010) Reputation and Power: Organizational Image and Pharmaceutical Regulation at the FDA, Princeton University Press.
Hood, C and Rothstein H and Baldwin, R (2001) The Government of Risk: Understanding Risk Regulation Regimes, Oxford: OUP
Slovic, P (2000) The Perception of Risk. Routledge
Renn, O (2008) Risk Governance: Coping with Uncertainty in a Complex World, Routledge.
Kelemen, R D, Vogel, D (2010) ‘Trading places: the role of the United States and the European Union in international environmental politics’ Comparative Political Studies 43: 427
Vogel, D (2003) ‘The hare and tortoise revisited’ British Journal of Political Science 33: 557-80
Ayres, I and Braithwaite, J (1992), Responsive Regulation: Transcending the Deregulation Debate, Oxford: OUP
Moran, M (2013) The British Regulatory State, Oxford: OUP
Alasdair, R. (2011) The logic of discipline: global capitalism and the architecture of government, Oxford: OUP
Mayntz, R ed (2012) Crisis and Control: Institutional change in financial market regulation, University of Chicago Press