Political Studies
Doctoral programme (PhD)
A.Y. 2024/2025
Study area
Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
PhD Coordinator
The interuniversity doctoral programme in Political Studies (POLS) integrates coherently empirical-positive and theoretical-normative approaches in political science. The programme therefore provides students with the methodological tools and cultural background common to the various lines of study and research, and a solid specialised preparation in four main areas, which may in some cases overlap:
a) institutions and public policy;
b) political theory and political philosophy;
c) international studies;
d) political communication, public opinion and political behaviour.
In order to promote the internationalization of the doctoral programme, English will be the official language.
The POLS doctoral programme aims to form not only young researchers who can engage in international academia but also professional figures able to undertake research, provide consultancy, coordinate and manage private research centres, think tanks, and political and economic organizations, both private and public, in regional, national and international contexts.
a) institutions and public policy;
b) political theory and political philosophy;
c) international studies;
d) political communication, public opinion and political behaviour.
In order to promote the internationalization of the doctoral programme, English will be the official language.
The POLS doctoral programme aims to form not only young researchers who can engage in international academia but also professional figures able to undertake research, provide consultancy, coordinate and manage private research centres, think tanks, and political and economic organizations, both private and public, in regional, national and international contexts.
Tutte le classi di laurea magistrale - All classes of master's degree
Dipartimento di Scienze sociali e politiche - Via Conservatorio, 7 - Milano
- Degree course coordinator: Franchino Fabio
[email protected] - Main offices
Dipartimento di Scienze sociali e politiche - Via Conservatorio, 7 - 20122 Milano - Degree course website
http://www.nasp.eu/training/phd-programmes/pols.html - Segreteria
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| Title | Professor(s) |
|---|---|
| European Studies: ERC project - Policy crisis and crisis politics. Sovereignty, Solidarity and Identity in the EU post 2008 | |
| African politics |
M. Bogaards
|
| Ageing, Elderly and Long term care | |
| Agents and agency in policy-making |
G. Capano
|
| Analysis of Legal Concepts | |
| Antipolitics and Populism |
G. Bobba
|
| Anti-poverty policies | |
| Attitudes towards politics |
G. Legnante
|
| Big Data, text and image analytics, social-media analysis and machine learning algorithms | |
| Bioethics, Law, and Politics | |
| Civil disobedience | |
| Coalition governments | |
| Company-based Welfare | |
| Comparative education and higher education policy |
G. Capano
|
| Comparative electoral behavior |
G. Legnante
|
| Comparative Institutions | |
| Comparative Labor Policy |
S. Sacchi
G. Bonoli
|
| Comparative legislative, executive and bureaucratic politics | |
| Comparative methodological strategies | |
| Comparative Migration Policy |
T. Caponio
|
| Comparative Political Economy |
G. Bonoli
S. Sacchi
|
| Comparative Social Policy |
S. Sacchi
P. Vesan
G. Bonoli
|
| Comparative welfare states |
G. Bonoli
|
| Conjoint analysis and valence voting | |
| Contemporary liberal theory | |
| Corruption | |
| Courts | |
| Defence policy |
A. Locatelli
|
| Democratic performance |
M. Boogards
|
| Democratic Theory | |
| Democratization |
M. Bogaards
|
| Digitalization, social and employment policies |
S. Sacchi
|
| Economy 4.0 and public policies |
S. Sacchi
|
| Eco-social policies |
E. Domorenok
|
| Electoral behavior |
G. Legnante
|
| Electoral Campaigns |
G. Legnante
G. Bobba
|
| Empirical Political Theory | |
| Environmental policy |
E. Domorenok
|
| EU Social and Economic Governance |
P.Vesan
|
| European Foreign and Security Policy |
A. Locatelli
|
| European Integration: policies, politics and institutions (socio-economic governance) |
M. Clementi
P. Pansardi
|
| European Union Policies |
F. Franchino
T. Caponio
E. Domorenok
|
| Europeanization |
G. Bobba
E. Domorenok
|
| Executive and Legislative Politics of the European Union |
P. Pansardi
|
| Feminist Legal Theories | |
| Fiscal welfare | |
| Foreign Policy Analysis |
M. Clementi
|
| Gender and politics |
P. Pansardi
|
| Generations and Politics |
G. Legnante
|
| Geopolitics |
M. Clementi
|
| Governance processes in local development policies |
P. Vesan
E. Domorenok
|
| Healthcare policy | |
| Human Rights and Normative Pluralism | |
| Human Rights and Women's Rights: History and Theories | |
| Humanitarian Intervention and R2P | |
| Hybrid regimes |
M. Boogards
|
| Immigration |
T. Caponio
|
| Interdiisciplinarity | |
| International Relations |
M. Clementi
A. Locatelli
|
| Intraparty Politics | |
| Italian Politics |
G. Legnante
|
| Just Transition |
E. Domorenok
|
| Law and Politics | |
| Legal Theories | |
| Legislative Studies | |
| LGBT+ Rights and Politics |
P. Pansardi
|
| Local government and governance |
T. Caponio
|
| Media and Politics |
G. Legnante
|
| Methodological issues in political philosophy | |
| Middle East |
V. Parsi
|
| Migration policy and politics |
T. Caponio
|
| Military Intervention | |
| Minimum income: policy and politics | |
| Models of Compromise | |
| Multilevel governance |
T. Caponio
|
| Multilevel governance of immigration and immigrant integration policies |
T. Caponio
|
| NATO and Transatlantic Relations |
M. Clementi
|
| Neo-institutional analysis |
G. Bonoli
|
| Occupational welfare | |
| Organization of business interest | |
| Party and Party Systems |
M. Boogards
|
| Party Politics | |
| Peace Studies | |
| Pension policy and politics | |
| Pluralism of values and political disagreements | |
| Policy advisory and evidence based Policy |
G. Capano
|
| Policy change: drivers and mechanisms |
G. Capano
|
| Policy design |
G. Capano
E. Domorenok
|
| Policy implications of electoral rules | |
| Policy learning |
P. Vesan
G. Capano
T. Caponio
E. Domorenok
|
| Policy mechanism design and policy analysis | |
| Policy tools |
G. Capano
E. Domorenok
|
| Political communication |
G. Legnante
G. Bobba
|
| Political Institutions | |
| Political Parties | |
| Political Violence | |
| Politics and development | |
| Public administration |
G. Capano
|
| Public Justification and political legitimacy | |
| Public opinion |
G. Legnante
G. Bobba
|
| Public policy and evaluation | |
| Public-Private Partnership | |
| Qualitative methods | |
| Quantitative methods | |
| Rational choice Theory and Formal modeling | |
| Realism in IR Theory |
A. Locatelli
|
| Representation | |
| Second Welfare | |
| Security Studies |
M. Clementi
A. Locatelli
|
| Social Innovation | |
| Social Investment | |
| Social Rights and Distributive Justice | |
| Spatial theory of voting | |
| Strategic Studies | |
| Text analysis | |
| The politics of public policies |
G. Capano
|
| The politics of social policies |
P. Vesan
G. Bonoli
|
| Theories of Fundamental Rights and Constitutionalism | |
| Theories of Justice and Injustice | |
| Transatlantic Relations |
V. Parsi
|
| Truth and politics | |
| Urban policy and governance |
T. Caponio
E. Domorenok
|
| US Foreign Policy |
M. Clementi
|
| Valence politics | |
| Vulnerability: normative and social dimensions | |
| War Studies | |
| Welfare and Philanthropy | |
| Work-life balance and family policies in comparative perspective |
Courses list
October 2024
| Courses or activities | Professor(s) | ECTS | Total hours | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Compulsory | ||||
| Logic and Epistemology of the Social Sciences | 3 | 20 | English | |
November 2024
| Courses or activities | Professor(s) | ECTS | Total hours | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Compulsory | ||||
| Game Theory | 3 | 20 | English | |
December 2024
| Courses or activities | Professor(s) | ECTS | Total hours | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Compulsory | ||||
| Topics in Rational Choice Institutionalism | 3 | 20 | English | |
February 2025
| Courses or activities | Professor(s) | ECTS | Total hours | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Compulsory | ||||
| Applied Multivariate Analysis for Social Scientists B | 3 | 20 | English | |
| Political Philosophy | 3 | 20 | English | |
March 2025
| Courses or activities | Professor(s) | ECTS | Total hours | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Compulsory | ||||
| Empirical Political Theory 2 | 3 | 20 | English | |
April 2025
| Courses or activities | Professor(s) | ECTS | Total hours | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Compulsory | ||||
| Project Colloquium | 3 | 20 | English | |
| Qualitative Research Methods | 3 | 20 | English | |
| Thinking Like a Social Scientist | 3 | 20 | English | |
Enrolment
Places available: 8
Call for applications
Please refer to the call for admission test dates and contents, and how to register.
Application for admission: from 29/05/2024 to 27/06/2024
Application for matriculation: from 09/08/2024 to 21/08/2024
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Contacts
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