Module Identifier | IPM6230 | ||
Module Title | THE WELSH POLITICAL ECONOMY | ||
Academic Year | 2002/2003 | ||
Co-ordinator | Dafydd Trystan-Davies | ||
Semester | Intended for use in future years | ||
Next year offered | N/A | ||
Next semester offered | N/A | ||
Course delivery | Seminars / Tutorials | 22 Hours 1 x 2 hour seminar per week | |
Assessment | Semester Exam | 3 Hours | 50% |
Semester Assessment | Essay: | 50% | |
Supplementary Exam | Students may, subject to Faculty approval, have the opportunity to resit this module, normally during the supplementary examination period. For further clarification please contact the Teaching Programme Administrator in the Department of International Politics. |
- critically assess and evaluate the main theoretical approaches to understanding the Welsh political economy
- assess the development of politico-economic relations within Wales during the past 120 years
- place developments in Wales in the wider context of developments in the international political economy
- understand the linkages between the material developments in the Welsh political economy and how people understood/understand this economy.
- assess and evaluate the main theoretical approaches to understanding the Welsh political economy
- assess the development of politico-economic relations within Wales during the past 120 years
- place developments in Wales in the wider context of developments in the international political economy
- probe the linkages between the material developments in the Welsh political economy and how people understood/understand this economy.
The course will begin by analysing the late 19th/early 20th century position of the Welsh political economy, as one of the most dynamic areas in the world. It will trace patterns of centrality and periphery in broader politico-economic trends throught he depression of the 20s and 30s. It will assess the impact of the regional planning approach to political economy in the 50s and early 60s, and contrast the position of the Welsh political economy during this period with the latter part of the 20th century and the rise of the Welsh Development Agency and the globalisation agenda.
It will place these material trends in a broad theoretical perspective which seeks to uncover the relationships between material practice and ideational practice. Thus various approaches to the construction or otherwise of the Welsh political economy will be considered.