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Course Description: The course gives a solid introduction to ethical principles and guidelines for public policy. It demonstrates how ethics can applied to policymaking and policy assessment in a constructive manner, using it as a tool for innovation and implementation and not just as a constraining factor.

Course Description: This course introduces students to important questions, theories, and concepts in comparative politics and policy, as well as basic tools of comparative political analysis. Every session, we explore one theoretical debate about an important phenomenon in world politics, such as economic development, political regimes, inequality, and climate change.

Course Description: The modern welfare state was a European invention that took shape gradually during the twentieth century. As a response to the social problems of industrialisation, urbanisation, and poverty around the late nineteenth century, it seeks to regulate both civil society and the market through social policies, in order to distribute economic resources more progressively and to ensure that all citizens enjoy a basic measure of social and economic security.

Course Description: This course offers a comprehensive introduction to the intricate relationship between economics and global public policy, with a strong emphasis on practical data analysis. Through a series of lectures and hands-on projects, students will gain essential skills in using real-world data to investigate economic and policy-related topics. Guided by step-by-step instructions, students will work with both curated and publicly available data sets, producing their own analytical reports.

Course Description: “Social Policy and Development” is a comprehensive course designed to introduce students to the intricacies of social policy and its impact on social change. Throughout the course, students will explore a variety of social issues such as poverty, inequality, migration, housing, health, and aging within a comparative framework.