Politics

Risk, Responsibility, Regulation: Whose Policy is it Anyway (MPA only)
Module POLM001M for 2016/7

Postgraduate Module Descriptor

POLM001M: Risk, Responsibility, Regulation: Whose Policy is it Anyway (MPA only)

This module descriptor refers to the 2016/7 academic year.

Overview

NQF Level	7
Credits	20	ECTS Value	10
Term(s) and duration	This module ran during term 1 (3 weeks)
Academic staff	Professor Claire Dunlop (Lecturer)
Pre-requisites	This module is only available to students on the MPA Programme
Co-requisites	None
Available via distance learning	No

This advanced level module introduces the key debates in the contemporary governance of risks in policy fields such as biotech, food, finance, nuclear and aviation policy. The module develops a conceptual understanding of the emerging trends in risk regulation in OECD countries and in particular the UK, EU and USA.

It explores some of the main theoretical approaches used to explain risk governance encouraging critical thinking about the relationship between theory and practice, both in terms of the contribution of theory to understanding current risk policies and how well different theories perform when confronted by practice.

This module is only available to students undertaking the Master of Public Administration programme

Module created	01/10/2007	Last revised	21/03/2014