4SSPP101 - Fundamentals of Politics Research

Recommended readings:
Introduction and chapter one of Jon Elster, Explaining Social Behavior: More Nuts and Bolts for the
Social Sciences (Cambridge University Press, 2007).
Jon Elster, 'Hard and soft obscurantism in the humanities and social sciences', Diogenes 58 (2011),
159-70.

4SSPP102 World Politics Since 1945

Key recommended textbooks:

Baylis, John; Steve Smith and Patricia Owens (eds.). 2011. The Globalizaton of World Politics: An
Introduction to International Relations. 5th Edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
(abbreviated title: GLOBALIZATION)
Young, John W. and John Kent. 2004. International Relations since 1945: A Global History.
Oxford: Oxford University Press. (abbreviated title: GLOBAL HISTORY)

Optional textbooks:

Mansbach, Richard W, and Edward Rhodes. 2009. Global Politics in a Changing World: A Reader,
4th Edition. Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. (abbreviated title: GLOBAL POLITICS)
Mingst, Karen, and Jack L. Snyder. 2007. Essential Readings in World Politics, 3rd Edition. New
York: W.W. Norton (abbreviated title: WORLD POLITICS)
Beeson, Mark, and Nick Bisley. 2010. Issues in 21st Century World Politics. Houndmills:
Macmillan Palgrave (abbreviated title: ISSUES)

4SSPP104 Introduction to Political Theory

Any one of the introductory texts:

Goodin, R.E., Pettit, P. & Pogge, T. (eds.) (2012) A Companion to Contemporary Political
Philosophy, Second Edition, Oxford: Blackwell.
Kymlicka, W. (2002) Contemporary Political Philosophy: An Introduction, Second Edition, Oxford:
Oxford University Press.
Barry, N. (2000) An Introduction to Modern Political Theory, Fourth Edition, Basingstoke:
Palgrave Macmillan.
Swift, A. (2006) Political Philosophy: A Beginners' Guide for Students and Politicians, Second
Edition, Cambridge: Polity.
Wolff, J. (2006) An Introduction to Political Philosophy, Oxford: OUP

4SSPP105 Principles of Economics

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4SSPP106 Quantitative Methods for Economics

Key textbook:

Moore / Notz / Fligner The Basic Practice of Statistics 6th edition (2013) Palgrave

Suggested reading:

Ben Goldacre 2009 Bad Science, Harper Perennial

4SSPP111 Statistics for Political Science

All the lectures will be mostly based on the following textbooks:
Foster, L., Ian Diamond and Julie Jefferies. 2015. Beginning Statistics. An introduction for Social
Scientists (2nd Edition). Sage (Primary), referred to as FDJ in rest of outline.
D. S. Moore et al. 2012. The Basic Practice of Statistics. 6E (International ed.). W.H. Freeman.
(Secondary)
To understand why learning statistics is quite relevant today, the following book is recommended:
Nate Silver The Signal and the Noise, 2012 Penguin