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POLITICS 741
: Ethics and Health Policy2023 Semester One (1233)
Considers the intersection between theory, policy, and problems in health. Topics include: defining health and its value; the role of government and markets in providing health care; allocating resources in a government health system; justice, inequalities, and health; coercion to control the spread of disease, whether caused by pathogens (e.g., pandemic influenza) or lifestyle.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
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POLITICS 741
: Ethics and Health Policy2022 Semester Two (1225)
Considers the intersection between theory, policy, and problems in health. Topics include: defining health and its value; the role of government and markets in providing health care; allocating resources in a government health system; justice, inequalities, and health; coercion to control the spread of disease, whether caused by pathogens (e.g., pandemic influenza) or lifestyle.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
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POLITICS 741
: Ethics and Health Policy2021 Semester Two (1215)
Considers the intersection between theory, policy, and problems in health. Topics include: defining health and its value; the role of government and markets in providing health care; allocating resources in a government health system; justice, inequalities, and health; coercion to control the spread of disease, whether caused by pathogens (e.g., pandemic influenza) or lifestyle.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
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POLITICS 741
: Ethics and Health Policy2020 Semester Two (1205)
Considers the intersection between theory, policy, and problems in health. Topics include: defining health and its value; the role of government and markets in providing health care; allocating resources in a government health system; justice, inequalities, and health; coercion to control the spread of disease, whether caused by pathogens (e.g., pandemic influenza) or lifestyle.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
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POLITICS 750
: International Relations and Human Rights2020 Semester Two (1205)
An analysis of how governments adopt and implement human rights norms, negotiate human rights treaties with other governments, interact with United Nations human rights institutions, and set up courts to try human rights violations. Includes domestic politics as they bear on international human rights issues.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
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POLITICS 756
: New Zealand Government2021 Semester One (1213)
An examination of the composition, functions and powers of New Zealand's political institutions under MMP. Analyses the extent to which factors such as political leadership, policy, electoral and parliamentary tactics, and relations between the major and minor parties contribute to a government's success.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
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POLITICS 756
: New Zealand Government2020 Semester One (1203)
An examination of the composition, functions and powers of New Zealand's political institutions under MMP. Analyses the extent to which factors such as political leadership, policy, electoral and parliamentary tactics, and relations between the major and minor parties contribute to a government's success.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
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POLITICS 757
: Comparative Public Policy2024 Semester Two (1245)
A comparative examination of policy actors, processes and outcomes. Engaging with a range of conceptual and methodological approaches, the course considers how we might explain and understand cross-national similarities and differences in policy-making and policy outcomes. The course focuses on the relative importance of interests, institutions and ideas at the national level, as well as international contexts and actors that facilitate diffusion and transfer of policy across countries.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
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POLITICS 757
: Comparative Public Policy2023 Semester Two (1235)
A comparative examination of policy actors, processes and outcomes. Engaging with a range of conceptual and methodological approaches, the course considers how we might explain and understand cross-national similarities and differences in policy-making and policy outcomes. The course focuses on the relative importance of interests, institutions and ideas at the national level, as well as international contexts and actors that facilitate diffusion and transfer of policy across countries.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
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POLITICS 757
: Comparative Public Policy2022 Semester Two (1225)
A comparative examination of policy actors, processes and outcomes. Engaging with a range of conceptual and methodological approaches, the course considers how we might explain and understand cross-national similarities and differences in policy-making and policy outcomes. The course focuses on the relative importance of interests, institutions and ideas at the national level, as well as international contexts and actors that facilitate diffusion and transfer of policy across countries.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
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POLITICS 757
: Comparative Public Policy2021 Semester Two (1215)
A comparative examination of policy actors, processes and outcomes. Engaging with a range of conceptual and methodological approaches, the course considers how we might explain and understand cross-national similarities and differences in policy-making and policy outcomes. The course focuses on the relative importance of interests, institutions and ideas at the national level, as well as international contexts and actors that facilitate diffusion and transfer of policy across countries.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
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POLITICS 757
: Comparative Public Policy2020 Semester Two (1205)
A comparative examination of policy actors, processes and outcomes. Engaging with a range of conceptual and methodological approaches, the course considers how we might explain and understand cross-national similarities and differences in policy-making and policy outcomes. The course focuses on the relative importance of interests, institutions and ideas at the national level, as well as international contexts and actors that facilitate diffusion and transfer of policy across countries.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
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POLITICS 770
: Ethnic Conflict and Civil War2024 Semester Two (1245)
Students examine the comparative literature on civil war, mass killings and conflict prevention, and apply this scholarship to past and contemporary cases of violent conflict. In doing so, they learn to carry out two policy-relevant tasks: identify common causes of violence and assess which policies of prevention work best in different contexts.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
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POLITICS 770
: Ethnic Conflict and Civil War2023 Semester One (1233)
Students examine the comparative literature on civil war, mass killings and conflict prevention, and apply this scholarship to past and contemporary cases of violent conflict. In doing so, they learn to carry out two policy-relevant tasks: identify common causes of violence and assess which policies of prevention work best in different contexts.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
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POLITICS 773
: From Dresden to Drones: The Ethics of War2023 Semester One (1233)
A focus on the ethical dimension of contemporary conflict, enabling students to critically assess debates about drone warfare, counterinsurgency and the politics of killing. Students will draw on a range of theorists, including Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben and Judith Butler, whilst looking at examples from Afghanistan, Israel-Palestine, Vietnam and Iraq.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
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POLITICS 773
: From Dresden to Drones: The Ethics of War2022 Semester One (1223)
A focus on the ethical dimension of contemporary conflict, enabling students to critically assess debates about drone warfare, counterinsurgency and the politics of killing. Students will draw on a range of theorists, including Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben and Judith Butler, whilst looking at examples from Afghanistan, Israel-Palestine, Vietnam and Iraq.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
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POLITICS 773
: From Dresden to Drones: The Ethics of War2021 Semester One (1213)
A focus on the ethical dimension of contemporary conflict, enabling students to critically assess debates about drone warfare, counterinsurgency and the politics of killing. Students will draw on a range of theorists, including Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben and Judith Butler, whilst looking at examples from Afghanistan, Israel-Palestine, Vietnam and Iraq.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
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POLITICS 773
: From Dresden to Drones: The Ethics of War2020 Semester Two (1205)
A focus on the ethical dimension of contemporary conflict, enabling students to critically assess debates about drone warfare, counterinsurgency and the politics of killing. Students will draw on a range of theorists, including Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben and Judith Butler, whilst looking at examples from Afghanistan, Israel-Palestine, Vietnam and Iraq.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
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POLITICS 774
: Politics-Policy Internship2024 Semester Two (1245)
Prerequisite: Programme Coordinator approval
Restriction: POLICY 737
Restriction: POLICY 737
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POLITICS 774
: Politics-Policy Internship2023 Semester Two (1235)
Prerequisite: Programme Coordinator approval
Restriction: POLICY 737
Restriction: POLICY 737
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POLITICS 774
: Politics-Policy Internship2022 Semester Two (1225)
Prerequisite: Programme Coordinator approval
Restriction: POLICY 737
Restriction: POLICY 737
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POLITICS 774
: Politics-Policy Internship2021 Semester Two (1215)
Prerequisite: Programme Coordinator approval
Restriction: POLICY 737
Restriction: POLICY 737
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POLITICS 774
: Politics-Policy Internship2020 Semester Two (1205)
Prerequisite: Programme Coordinator approval
Restriction: POLICY 737
Restriction: POLICY 737
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POLITICS 776
: Media and Politics in an Age of Globalisation2024 Semester One (1243)
Explores the relationship between media and politics, domestically and internationally, within a changing global context. Students will critically engage with key theories in political communication scholarship, such as agenda-setting, priming, framing, silencing and informational effects within the new media dynamics, which includes multiple new media outlets (such as state and private media), platforms, technologies and faster delivery.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
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POLITICS 776
: Media and Politics in an Age of Globalisation2022 Semester One (1223)
Explores the relationship between media and politics, domestically and internationally, within a changing global context. Students will critically engage with key theories in political communication scholarship, such as agenda-setting, priming, framing, silencing and informational effects within the new media dynamics, which includes multiple new media outlets (such as state and private media), platforms, technologies and faster delivery.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
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