Master of Arts in Public Economics, Law & Politics

Content and Rationale

Stu­dies in po­li­ti­cal sci­ence at Leu­pha­na Gra­dua­te School com­bi­ne di­sci­pli­nes, which tra­di­tio­nal­ly deal with the re­la­ti­ons­hip of sta­te, so­cie­ty, and busi­ness and eco­no­mics. Ques­ti­ons, is­su­es, and ap­proa­ches to so­lu­ti­ons re­sul­ting from the­se in­tri­ca­te­ly in­ter­wo­ven re­la­ti­ons­hips are ana­ly­zed and trea­ted from the joi­ned per­spec­tives of po­li­ti­cal sci­ence, eco­no­mics, and law.

The fo­cus is pla­ced on the cau­ses, back­ground, as well as so­ci­al and eco­no­mic ef­fects and con­se­quen­ces, of go­vern­ment ac­tion. Thus, the cour­se aims at achie­ving a com­pre­hen­si­ve re­flec­tion on the re­la­ti­ons­hip bet­ween po­li­tics, law, and eco­no­mics by ap­p­ly­ing the tools pro­vi­ded by po­li­ti­cal sci­ence as a di­sci­pli­ne, rein­forced by in­ter­di­sci­pli­na­ry ob­ser­va­tions.

The di­sci­pli­ne-ori­en­ted elec­tives aim at trai­ning aca­de­mics to de­ve­lop in-depth com­pe­ten­cies in the in­di­vi­du­al di­sci­pli­nes of political science, public law, and economics. Co­ope­ra­ti­on with the Ger­man In­sti­tu­te for Glo­bal and Area Stu­dies (GIGA) in Ham­burg ma­kes it pos­si­ble to fo­cus on the field of education development theory and policy. This is achie­ved thanks to a selec­tion of more spe­cia­li­sed cour­se of­fe­rings. Six in­di­vi­dual­ly selec­ta­ble and fre­e­ly com­binable mo­du­les lar­ge­ly con­vey theo­ries, ap­proa­ches and me­thods for ana­ly­sing the sta­te of aca­de­mic ques­ti­ons and is­su­es from a di­sci­pli­na­ry per­spec­tive.

Programme Structure

In the first se­mes­ter, two in­di­vi­dual­ly al­lo­ca­ted bridge mo­du­les con­vey ba­sic know­ledge in po­li­ti­cal sci­ence in the di­sci­pli­nes, which you have not yet or not suf­fi­ci­ent­ly stu­di­ed in your pre­vious cour­ses. The se­cond and third se­mes­ters see the in­te­gra­ti­on ran­ge ex­ten­ding sub­ject of­fers by an in­ter­di­sci­pli­na­ry per­spec­tive: In two mo­du­les, selec­ted to­pics and is­su­es from the per­spec­tive of each of two di­sci­pli­nes are in­ves­ti­ga­ted to­ge­ther.

The cour­se of­fe­rings are com­ple­men­ted not only by the cross-com­ple­men­ta­ry stu­dies over-ar­ching the mas­ter's de­grees on the ba­sis of a broad aca­de­mic and re­flec­tion-ori­en­ted sci­ence but also by the Mas­ter's Fo­rum & Re­se­arch Per­spec­tives. It teaches the me­tho­do­lo­gi­cal and or­ga­nisa­t­io­nal skills, which are ne­cessa­ry for the de­sign and im­ple­men­ta­ti­on of prac­ti­tio­ners' own ana­ly­ses ba­sed on po­li­ti­cal sci­ence, as well as re­se­arch pro­jects. Buil­ding on this in­ten­si­ve pre­pa­ra­ti­on, the Mas­ter's dis­ser­ta­ti­on com­ple­ted in the fourth se­mes­ter con­clu­des the Mas­ter's Pro­gram­me.