College of Social Sciences and International Studies
Money, Lobbying, and Policymaking
Module POL3226 for 2018/9
Module POL3226 for 2018/9
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
POL3226: Money, Lobbying, and Policymaking
This module descriptor refers to the 2018/9 academic year.
Module Aims
This module is intended to improve both (1) your understanding about politics and the forces that result in implemented public policies, and (2) your ability to critically evaluate research, news reports, and advocacy efforts. The aim is to enable you to assess for yourself the effects of pressure group money on politics and policymaking, having portrayed lobbyists and legislators in simulations, and analysed real data on the topic.
On successfully completing the programme you will be able to: | |
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Module-Specific Skills | 1. Critically assess the influence of lobbyists' direct and indirect expenditures on US policymaking; 2. Demonstrate understanding of the role pressure groups and lobbyists play in policymaking, particularly in the US; |
Discipline-Specific Skills | 3. Use simple statistical methods to analyse data and model political behaviour; 4. Critically evaluate political science research according to its assumptions, methods, and conclusions; |
Personal and Key Skills | 5. Increase confidence in approaching professional colleagues with ideas and suggesting collaborations; 6. Improve writing skills through multiple iterations, peer review, and practice writing in the role of a professional, rather than a student; and 7. Demonstrate capacity to be persuasive. |