How is the Indian state is structured and constrained?

Study qualitative and quantitative methods used for empirical analyses of policy and governance issues.

Surveys the complexity, details and arrangements involved in natural resource management.

An overview and analysis of the conceptual approaches to the environment.

How does the State work on the ground?

The fundamentals of finances for public policy and governance. 

Fundamentals of financial accounting, financial reporting, financial analysis and government budgeting.

What are the contexts in which public policy is implemented?

Understand research designs and methods used for making causal inferences about public policy and governance interventions.

An overview of the role of a policy analyst and the concepts and skills necessary for an understanding of public policies across domains.

How is political authority constituted and legitimated in a society? 

What is the state meant to do as per the Indian Constitution?

How are programmes and policies evaluated for their process and impact?

What do public policy and public administration in India consist of?

A survey of qualitative approaches informed by social science methods used and applied in generic policy domains in advocacy, analysis and evaluation.

A society-centric approach to survey the changes brought about in governance.

Looking at the function of organisations that are public and not-profit and evaluating their performance.

A six-week internship between Semester 02 and 03. 

How does the state exercise its legitimacy across different societal interests?

This course introduces you to the lexicon, concepts, and arguments around economic ideas, covering microeconomics, macroeconomics, development economics and public economics.

The study of cities for public policy and governance.

Connect public policy advocacy with fundamental ethical and moral ideas.

The third component of the field practice occurs over eight weeks following the 3^rd semester.