Department
of Political Science
3151 Social Science Plaza
Irvine, CA 92697-5100
949-824-5361 (p)
949-824-8762 (f)
3151 Social Science Plaza
Irvine, CA 92697-5100
949-824-5361 (p)
949-824-8762 (f)
Students
interested in research on issues that lie at the intersection of economics and
political science should consider a program of study leading to the Ph.D.
degree in Economics with a concentration in Political Economy / Public Choice.
Public Choice, an interdisciplinary field, that draws on sophisticated
quantitative tools to model the functioning of institutions. Faculty and
student interests cover applied areas of political decision-making such as
voter and party choice, electoral systems and constitutional design,
regulation, lobbying and rent-seeking activities, issues of banking, securities
regulation, and taxation and income distribution and more purely theoretical
and mathematical topics in social choice and social welfare theory and the
theory of public goods.
The
program is administered by an interdisciplinary committee of faculty, primarily
from the Departments of Economics and Political Science, but also from the
Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science and the Paul Merage School of
Business . This group includes some of the nation's leading scholars in the
area.
Requirements
for the program are the same as those for the Ph.D. degree in Economics with the
following two modifications. First, students must obtain (if they do not
already have) a background knowledge in political science, equivalent to that
provided by a one-year undergraduate survey course. Second, as one of their two
required fields of competence, students must complete the year-long graduate
seminar in Political Economy / Public Choice (Econ 270); the requirement for
competence in a second field may be satisfied with a one-quarter course
(instead of two), if it provides sufficient fluency in the field.
For
a more detailed description of the program click here: Political Economy / Public Choice.
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