Keele University Prospectus Postgraduate | 2017 | Seite 98

Postgraduate Prospectus 2017

Political Parties and Elections
Key Information
Overview

Like them or loathe them, political parties and elections are important.
Elections constitute an essential element of modern democracy
and defining moments for the distribution of political power.
For their part, political parties help link politics and society, compete
in elections and structure political processes within and between
key political institutions. Political parties and elections significantly
shape the nature, quality and legitimacy of contemporary politics.
This programme is concerned above all with investigating the rich
diversity of political parties and elections in the contemporary world.
We were the first UK university to offer a taught master’s in Political
Parties and Elections: our course benefits from Keele’s unusually high
concentration of international research and teaching expertise in this
area, much of it organised in the Keele European Parties Research Unit.
The aim of this programme is to provide you with the factual knowledge
and conceptual and analytical skills that will enable you to reflect
critically on the manner in which political parties and elections operate
in the modern world. In addition, it provides you with the opportunity
to demonstrate originality and self-direction in generating and
investigating research questions. More broadly, it aims to assist
you to develop a range of cognitive and social skills relevant to your
intellectual, vocational and personal development. In pursuing these
aims, the course seeks to prepare you for a variety of professional
careers, including those in governmental and non-governmental
organisations, the media and business, or for research beyond
master’s level.

Course type
MA, MRes

Mode of study

Full-time or part-time

Indicative entry
requirements
2:2

For a list of full entry
requirements please visit
www.keele.ac.uk/pgtcourses

Contact email

[e-mail]

The course is taught over a 12 month period (September to September
and January to January). It is available both full-time and part-time.
Students completing an MA at Keele have gone to pursue a variety
of careers in the public, private and voluntary sectors.

Indicative modules

You will study the following core modules:
• Advanced Approaches to Politics and International Relations*
• Research in Action*
• Perspectives in Politics and International Relations*
• Dissertation
The following is a list of indicative elective modules:
• Parties and Democracy
• Right Wing Radical Parties
• Comparative European Politics
• Party Politics and the European Union
*Please note: this is a pathway of the MA in Politics and International
Relations. For further details on the course, please visit our website
www.keele.ac.uk/spire/postgraduate

For more information please visit

keele.ac.uk/pg/politicalpartiesandelections
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Did you know?
In the 2015 Research Excellence
Framework, 93% of the research
submitted in Politics and International
Studies was judged to be in the top
three categories of world-leading,
internationally excellent, and
internationally recognised.