36 monthsProgramme duration
29,800 GBPTuition Fee/year
SepStarting Month
Programme overview
Main Subject
Politics
Degree
PhD
Study Level
PHD
Study Mode
On Campus
UCL's PhD programme in political science is one of the most competitive in Europe. Small cohorts receive extensive training to prepare for senior positions in research, teaching, or applied work in government, international organisations, private firms, and the third sector.
The department welcomes research in all the major sub-fields of political science. This includes international relations, political economy, public policy and management, legal and political theory, comparative politics, and data analysis.
Academic staff have a strong record of research and publication within all the main subfields of politics, including:
- British politics: constitutional and parliamentary reform; devolution; electoral participation; alternative electoral systems.
- Comparative politics and government: democratisation; the politics of ethnicity; political campaigns and electoral behaviour; comparative urban, rural, and local politics; public opinion.
- EU politics and public policy: decision-making and institutions; regulation and delegation; lobbying; constitutionalism; citizenship and democracy.
- Human rights: human rights and globalisation; theories of human rights and justice; adjudication and interpretation; democracy, religion and human rights; global poverty and human rights; militias, non-state actors.
- International relations: international peace and security; globalisation and global governance; international migration; international finance; international trade and investment.
- Political economy: distributive politics in welfare states; political economy of development.
- Public policy: business-government relations; executive and bureaucratic politics; public ethics.
- Political theory: the history of modern political thought; multiculturalism, toleration and citizenship; democracy and constitutionalism; contemporary political philosophy.
Programme overview
Main Subject
Politics
Degree
PhD
Study Level
PHD
Study Mode
On Campus
UCL's PhD programme in political science is one of the most competitive in Europe. Small cohorts receive extensive training to prepare for senior positions in research, teaching, or applied work in government, international organisations, private firms, and the third sector.
The department welcomes research in all the major sub-fields of political science. This includes international relations, political economy, public policy and management, legal and political theory, comparative politics, and data analysis.
Academic staff have a strong record of research and publication within all the main subfields of politics, including:
- British politics: constitutional and parliamentary reform; devolution; electoral participation; alternative electoral systems.
- Comparative politics and government: democratisation; the politics of ethnicity; political campaigns and electoral behaviour; comparative urban, rural, and local politics; public opinion.
- EU politics and public policy: decision-making and institutions; regulation and delegation; lobbying; constitutionalism; citizenship and democracy.
- Human rights: human rights and globalisation; theories of human rights and justice; adjudication and interpretation; democracy, religion and human rights; global poverty and human rights; militias, non-state actors.
- International relations: international peace and security; globalisation and global governance; international migration; international finance; international trade and investment.
- Political economy: distributive politics in welfare states; political economy of development.
- Public policy: business-government relations; executive and bureaucratic politics; public ethics.
- Political theory: the history of modern political thought; multiculturalism, toleration and citizenship; democracy and constitutionalism; contemporary political philosophy.
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