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Offerings

MURDOCH-S1-EXT-2024-ONGOING
MURDOCH-S1-INT-2024-ONGOING

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Enrolment in a graduate-level course.

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Learning outcomes

1.

Analyse how political and economic power interact to create and perpetuate inequality and shape the political conditions that constrain or enable inclusive development strategies.

2.

Discuss the policy-making process and the roles of bureaucracies and social forces in shaping policy and development strategies. 

3.

Analyse the political economy of aid and development policy, including how power shapes policy making and policy processes

4.

Communicate analysis of politics, state and development in a critical and clear manner in written assignments, including a major piece of research, and in participation in seminars.

5.

Communicate understandings of politics, state and development in a critical and clear manner through both written assignments and participation in seminars.

Assessments

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Additional information

Unit content:

The unit examines political contestations over development projects, strategies and missions, the social forces that underpin these projects, and the state structures through which these contestations take place. The unit explores the relationship between transnational structures and transformations of social power, and the implications for developmental programs and projects. It examines some of the foundational concepts of political economy such as capitalism, inequality, and social reproduction in shaping development policy including in areas such as cash grants and gender policy. It also includes an introduction to the use of applied political economy in development policy.