Unit information: State, Market and Social Policy in 2009/10

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Unit name State, Market and Social Policy
Unit code SPOL30009
Credit points 20
Level of study H/6
Teaching block(s) Teaching Block 1 (weeks 1 - 12)
Unit director Professor. Alex Marsh
Open unit status Open
Pre-requisites

None
Co-requisites

None
School/department School for Policy Studies
Faculty Faculty of Social Sciences and Law

Description including Unit Aims

Students will be required to analyse the motives behind (and the consequences of) administrative restructuring of the welfare state that took place in the 1980s and continues in the 1990s. Teaching will be through a mixture of lectures and seminars: assessment will be by conventional exam.

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