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Students enrolled in 2025

The Master’s degree programme has two curricula that diverge in the second year:

               First Year - a.y. 2025/26 

             (common to both curricula)

Compulsory courses (36 ECTS):
SPS/04 Analysis and Evaluation of Public Policies 9
IUS/09 Electoral and Parliamentary Law 9
SECS-P/03   Public Finance 9

 

SECS-S/05

SPS/07

Methodology and Techniques of Empirical Research

Module: Qualitative Research Techniques (3 ECTS)

Module: Methodology of Empirical Research (6 ECTS)

9

 

 

One elective course (6 ECTS) between: 
M-STO/04 History of Representation and Political Systems

 

6

 

SPS/03 History of Electoral Systems
One elective course (6 ECTS) between: 
IUS/10 Administrative Law

 

6

 

IUS/21 Comparative Lobbying Law (in English)
One elective course (6 ECTS) between: 

SPS/09

IUS/09

SECS-P/12

SPS/04

SPS/01

Sociology and Politics of Development

 

 

6

 

 

 

Regional and Local Government Law
Economic History of Italy
Political Analysis
Theories of Justice and Social Intervention
Total First Year 54

Curriculum: Institutions and Markets

                          Second Year - a.y. 2026/27

                          Two elective courses (18 ECTS) between:
SECS-S/01 Policy Evaluation Methods (in English)

9

9

9

SECS-P/02 AI, Games and Behavioural Insights in Public Policy (in English) 

 

SECS-P/07,

SECS-P/10  

Business Administration and Organization

Module: Financial Statement Analysis (5 ECTS)

Module: Business Organization (4 ECTS)

One elective course (6 ECTS) between: 
SECS-P/03 Behavioural Economics (in English)

 

6

 

SECS-P/01 Economy, Society and Environment
One elective course (6 ECTS) between: 
SECS-P/03 Competition Policy

 

6

 

SECS-P/03 The Economics of Global Inequalities (in English)
SECS-P/02 Ecological Economics (in English)
SECS-P/02 Economics of European Integration
SECS-P/03 Local Public Finance
SECS-P/03 Economics of Institutions
SECS-S/04 Quantitative Methods for Population Studies
  Free-choice credits: 9 ECTS

Additional activities (12 ECTS) between:

English C1 (reading and listening) 3
French B2 (reading and listening) 3
Spanish B2 (reading and listening) 3
Portuguese B2 (reading and listening) 3
German B2 (reading and listening) 3

Workshop I (Lobbying & democratic participation) advanced to first year (a.y. 2025/26)

3

Workshop II (Differentiated regionalism) advanced to first year (a.y. 2025/26)

3
Workshop III (Administrative law) 3
Workshop IV (Public affairs and institutional relations) 3
Workshop V (Game design for the analysis of social systems) 3
Workshop VI (Policy advice and strategic foresight in public administrations) 3
  Internship  6
Internship linked to a practice-oriented thesis  12
Final exam 15 ECTS, one option between:
  Final thesis 15

Final thesis plus one between:

9
  • Internship for thesis preparation 

6

  • Thesis preparation abroad

6

Total Second Year 66

Curriculum: Institutions and Politics

                         Second Year - a.y. 2026/27

  Compulsory courses  (18 ECTS)
SPS/04 Elections, Parties and Public Opinion 9
SPS/04 Political and Electoral Communication 9
Two elective courses (12 ECTS) between:
SPS/04 Comparative Local and Regional Governments 6
SPS/04 Theories and Practice of Lobbying (in English) 6
SPS/04 Welfare Systems 6
  Free-choice credits: 9 ECTS
Additional activities (12 ECTS) between:
  English C1 (reading and listening) 3
French B2 (reading and listening) 3
Spanish B2 (reading and listening) 3
Portuguese B2 (reading and listening) 3
German B2 (reading and listening) 3
Workshop I (Lobbying & democratic participation), advanced to first year (a.y. 2025/26) 3
Workshop II (Differentiated regionalism), advanced to first year (a.y. 2025/26) 3
Workshop III (Administrative law) 3
Workshop IV (Public affairs and institutional relations) 3
Workshop V (Game design for the analysis of social systems) 3
Workshop VI (Policy advice and strategic foresight in public administrations) 3
  Internship 6
Internship linked to a practice-oriented thesis  12
Final exam 15 ECTS, one option between:
 

Final thesis

15

Final thesis plus one between:

9
  • Internship for thesis preparation 

6

  • Thesis preparation abroad

6

Total Second Year 66

Last
update

18.06.2026

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