PPE Notes

These notes provide both a comprehensive introduction to epistemology and metaphysics as well as more advanced topics and literature surveys in those fields.
They are clear, logically organised and easy to read but do not compromise on detail or accu

These notes provide both a comprehensive introduction to both ethical and meta-ethical theory, additionally including more advanced topics and literature surveys.
They are clear, logically organised and easy to read but do not compromise on detail o

Notes on personal identity.

• Overview
• Gender Discrimination
Race Discrimination
Taste based discrimination model: BECKER 1957
Overview
Criticism
Statisical Discrimination Model
Implicit Discrimination Model
Monoposony (Manning 2003)
Essay Plan: ‘The failure of women

Definition
Features
Theoretical Background
Extent
Advantages
Disadvantages
Job tenure
Overriding paradigm
Permissive Conditions
Information Costs
Mobility Costs
Efficiency Wages
Deferred Compensation - Becker and Stigler (1974)
Evidence:

Overview
Theoretical Effects: PC Model
Theoretical Effects: Dynamic Monopsony Model
Model Reconciliation: Empirics
Literature Summary:
CARD AND KRUEGER (1995)
DOLADO et al (1996)
DOLTON & BONDIBENE (2012).
BAZEN’s (1990) – general equilibrium

Overview
Importance of Compensation
Agency Model
Time Rates
Piece Rates
Individual Merit Pay
Group Merit Pay
Profit Sharing/Group wide incentives
Deferred Compensation
Other Paradigms
Loyalty
Productivity
Social custom approach (neglected

Trends in OECD Employment
Natural Rate of Unemployment & PS/WS Framework
Open Economy Theory
Labour Market Institutions:
Employment Protection Legislation (EPL)
Minimum Wage
Unemployment Benefits
Trade Unions
Alternative Models:
Efficiency Wa

Definition
Theoretical Framework:
Collective Voice Theory
Criticism of Framework
Union Power:
Types
Measurement
Measurement issues
Literature Summary:
Schabel (2003), Pencavel (1971), Olson (1965), Booth (2003),
Empirical Evidence of Decli

Notes on several of Marx and Engel's most important texts, as well as extensive notes on secondary literature, including Lenin, Luxemburg, Trotsky, Furedi and Cohen.

These notes provide both a comprehensive introduction to the philosophy of mind as well as more advanced topics and literature surveys.
They are clear, logically organised and easy to read but do not compromise on detail or accuracy. They include su

These notes provide both a comprehensive introduction to the philosophy of science and the philosophy of social science, and include both essential and advanced topics and literature surveys.
They are clear, logically organised and easy to read but d

Literature
1. Forms of executives
2. Effects of executive format
a. Policy – quantity and nature
b. Democratic survival
3. Non-institutional factors – leadership quality, government’s popularity, relations with executive, policy output. How insti

Very comprehensive notes and thoughts on federalism based on a combination of the Oxford set reading list and the tutorial discussion.

i) Overview
- Definitions
- Congruent/Incongruent Federalism
- Federalism vs decentralisation
- Advantages &

Literature Analyses & Tutorial Discussion
1. Judicialisation of politics - Extent? Causes?
2. Impact of judiciary on courts output; how sustain political position and legitimacy
3. Relationship between judiciary and elected actors

In addition:

Comparative Study Of Legislatures Globally - Literature summaries, tutorial and revision notes

Overview:
- Methodological Points
- Typologies
- Functions of Legislatures
- Executive-legislative relations
- Agenda Cartel Theory
- Party Unity (

- Comprehensive Methodology Literature Summaries
- Tutorial and Class Notes
- Exam Tips

Covers Mill's Methods; Rational Choice Theory; Inference; Causality/Causal Inference; Falsifiability; Endogeneity; Microfoundations; Case Studies; Measurement

Parties: Literature Summaries, Class Analysis & Tutorial Notes

- Key’s three party functions
- Number of parties: Duverger’s theory
- Historical dynamics of a party system
- Party systems in new democracies

Party Formation and Party-Voter Lin

Notes on ideology, class, and methodology. Including summaries of Bourdieu, Durkheim, Weber, Zizek, Marx and Giddens.

Notes on various texts and debates in the philosophy of science and philosophy of social science, including explanation, relativism, interpretation, and individual/holism.

Notes on Wittgenstein's later writings on meaning, language, rules and philosophy of mind, together with extensive notes on secondary literature, including Russell, Kripke, Child, Blackburn and Baker & Hacker.