JSGP Admission Brochure 2014

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JINDAL SCHOOL OF GOVERNMENT AND PUBLIC POLICY MA PUBLIC POLICY201416

www.jsgp.edu.in


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The Jindal School of Government and Public Policy is one of the five

schools of the O.P Jindal Global University (JGU). JGU is a non-profit

university established by the Haryana Private Universities (Second

Amendment) Act, 2009 and recognised by the University Grants

Commission (UGC) of India. JGU promotes teaching and research

with a global perspective. JGU is one of the few universities in Asia

that maintains a 1:15 faculty-student ratio and appoints faculty

OP JINDAL GLOBAL UNIVERSITYa world class university in the making

JINDAL SCHOOL OF GOVERNMENTAND PUBLIC POLICY

a vibrant intellectual environment

Jindal School of Government and Public Policy (JSGP) engages

with the contemporary policy environment, which demands new

imaginations, new methodologies and even a revitalised ethics.

Through national and international collaborations, JSGP promotes

interdisciplinary studies, joint teaching and research programmes,

and strives to develop a comparative perspective on global policy

issues. JSGP offers students a well-grounded education and exposesthem to the field and actual institutional mechanisms. JSGP regularly

invites academicians, activists, senior bureaucrats, politicians, NGO-

workers, policymakers from UN and other international organisations

to deliver lectures to interact with the students.

WHY STUDY MA PUBLIC POLICYa stepping stone to an exciting career in public life

The government plays a significant role in ensuring human security

and human development, promoting the common good and upholding

the public interest. The MA Public Policy (MPP) opens doors to the

exciting world of public life. In a challenging and increasingly complex

policy environment, students can learn to solve practical problems

and find solutions conducive to the public good.

JSGP has offered me an enriching teaching and

learning environment. The teachers accommodate

the perspectives of all the students, which makes the

classroom an exciting place.

Marcela Arao Guivala, 2nd

Year MPP

members from different parts of the world with outstanding academic

qualifications and experience.

JGU is a research intensive University. It has established several

research centres in all its Schools. Each faculty member is affiliated

to a research centre. The University has over 100 full-time faculty

members and nearly 1500 students. The University has extensive

academic networks. It has collaborative projects with reputed

universities, including Oxford, Cambridge, Cornell, Harvard, Michigan,

Indiana and Yale.


Students are equipped to serve development and policy sectors,and work in international organisations, civil service, social anddevelopment initiatives of corporations, and in think-tanks. Theyalso acquire knowledge and skills needed for policy analysts and

independent consultants for government and nongovernmentalorganisations, to enable the media to become more analytical andevidence-based, or even to establish their own organisations. Ourdedicated professional Placement and Career Development Cellconducts regular workshops on writing up student profiles, preparingfor interviews, and offers individual counselling to students.


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MA PUBLIC POLICYpreparing thought leaders for the future.

Jindal School of Government and Public Policy (JSGP) offers Indias

first MA Public Policy programme. This Masters programme will

equip students to perform effectively in complex policy environments.

It is interdisciplinary in approach and enables students to address

contemporary political, economic and social issues in a coherent and

comprehensive manner.

The Masters programme imparts a strong training in theory,

covering key literature and debates. Students develop quantitative

and qualitative analytical skills, receive an exposure to the real world

policy making process, and enhance their managerial skills. We

encourage students to choose courses and topics which help them to

explore their intellectual curiosity.

This is a residential, full-time degree programme. The students

are required to successfully complete 16 courses spread over four

semesters, write a dissertation and undertake a 2-month internship.

The core course curriculum is carefully

balanced, drawing upon disciplines pertinent

to designing, implementing and evaluation of

public policies. Students are encouraged to

specialize in their preferred fields through

elective courses. A dissertation written underthe supervision and guidance of faculty is

a requirement. Moreover, students are

encouraged to take courses in law, business

and international affairs, offered by the other

schools of the University.

CORE COURSES

C1 Introduction to Social Theory

C2 Economics of Public Policy 1 (Micro)

C3 Politics, Law and Institutions

C4 Quantitative Research MethodologyC5 The State, Market and Regulation

C6 Economics of Public Policy 2 (Macro)

C7 Political Philosophy and Justice

C8 Qualitative Research Methodology

C9 Project and Programme Evaluation

C10 Indian Economic and Political Challenges

C11 Public Economics

C12 Ethical Foundation of Public Policy

C13 International Institutions and Development

ELECTIVE COURSESE1 Development Economics

E2 Urban Theory, Practice and Policy

E3 Social Transformation

E4 Public Policy Challenges in Conflict Areas

E5 Future Studies

E6 Gender and Development

E7 Environmental Economics and Climate Change

E8 Measuring Development and Well-being

E9 Big Data: Management and Analysis

E10 International Trade and Globalisation

INTERNSHIPlearning from the real world

JSGP has a wide range of contacts in India and abroad. Being located

close to New Delhi, with the presence of a large number of public

institutions, international organisations and NGOs, it helps us to

arrange internship for all the students.

We are a part of a select group of elite public policy schools in the

world Oxford University, Harvard University, Sciences Po in France,

Di Tella University in Argentina and Tsinghua University in China

who have been selected by the Open Society Foundations as a partner

institution for the Open Society Internship for Rights and Governance.

Under this highly competitive internship programme, selected

students attend a 10-day clinical seminar in Budapest at the School

of Public Policy of the Central European University, after which they

undertake a six-week intensive internship at an organisation, which

can be located anywhere in the world.

CURRICULUMigniting young minds from across the world

At Budapest and Estonia, I had the chance to work and interact with renowned

scholars and students from top public policy schools across the globe. .

JSGPs innovative pedagogy equipped me with all the skills required to finish my

challenging internship comfortably.

Amith Kaushik Tanneru, 2nd year MPP.

Photocredit:SaptarshiM

andal

Szchenyi Chain Bridge, Budapest


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Sudarshan Ramaswamy Professor and Dean

M.Phil.(Oxford); M.A. (Delhi School of Economics)Dean Sudarshan Ramaswamy has had a distinguishedcareer spanning domains of teaching, researchand design and implementation of development

programmes, specializing in human development,law and governance. Sudarshan has B.A. (Hons) and

M.A. (Economics) degrees from universities of Bangalore andDelhi, respectively. He was elected to a Rhodes Scholarship in1974, and joined Balliol College, University of Oxford, where heearned an M.Phil. (Politics) in 1977. He was awarded a researchscholarship by St. Johns College, Cambridge University, whereworked on the interface of law and economics, particularlyjudicial review of economic legislation in Common Lawcountries. During 1983 he was a visiting scholar in developmentstudies, University of East Anglia. He joined the Ford Foundation,New Delhi, in 1984 as Program Officer for governance, humanrights and social justice. In 1991 he joined UNDP-India as SeniorEconomist, Asst. Representative, and Head of the HumanDevelopment Resource Centre. He subsequently served UNDPas Senior Governance Advisor in Indonesia, and as PolicyAdvisor on Governance, Justice, and Human Rights in the OsloGovernance Centre and Asia-Pacific Regional Centre, Bangkok.Sudarshan has edited eight books and is the author of severalUN reports and peer-reviewed publications.

Arnab Acharya Professor

Masters in Public Health (Harvard University), PhD (Illinois) (till

December 2013)

Arnab Acharya is trained in theoretical economics,

development economics and public health in developingcountries. His primary interests have centred on

examining issues around service delivery, with a focus

on health. He has published in a wide range of topics:

foreign aid effectiveness, centrally planned economics, impact

evaluation and time preference, egalitarianism and role of civil

society in public service delivery. He has worked in a number

of countries including Bangladesh, Tanzania, Malawi, Ghana

as well as in India. He has held academic posts in Harvard

University and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical

Medicine and Sussex University.

Aseem PrakashAssociate Professor and Assistant Dean

PhD, MPhil & MA (Jawaharlal Nehru University)

Aseem Prakash is an Associate Professor and Assistant

Director of the Centre for the Study of Democracy

and Markets and a founding faculty of JSGP. Aseem

has more than ten years of experience in teaching

and research at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences,

Mumbai, Institute of Human Development, New Delhi and the

International Labour Organisation, New Delhi. He held a Full

Fend Teaching and Research Fellowship at Oxford University.

His research interests include political economy of the Indian

state, sociology of markets, regulation of formal and informal

institutions, Dalit and labour studies and human development.

His forthcoming book to be published by Routledge- DalitCapital: State, Markets and Civil Society in Urban India-

explores how state, market and civil society affect the process

of inclusion and exclusion. Currently, Aseem is studying the

capitalist transformation of small towns in the periphery of Delhi.

FACULTYhighly qualified with international

experience in teaching and research

Bhuvaneswari RamanAssociate Professor

PhD (LSE), MSc (LSE), MSc (AIT, Bangkok)

Bhuvaneswari Raman is an urban specialist with a

Ph.D. from the London School of Economics, UK. She

has held research positions at the LSE and consulted

for academic institutions including the University

of Amsterdam, Netherlands, and the University of

Birmingham, UK as well as international development agencies

including World Bank and the UNESCO. She has researched

extensively urban issues, specifically those of urban poverty,

urban governance and land and housing dynamics in cities. Sheis currently researching on the transformation of small towns

and rural-urban areas, e-governance in the domains for urban

planning and development and land administration and the

transformation of territorial commons.

Parkash Chander Professor

Ph.D. (Indian Statistical Institute)

Parkash Chander is a PhD from Indian Statistical

Institute and has wide international experience. Beside

the Indian Statistical Institute, he has taught at California

Institute of Technology, Johns Hopkins University, and

most recently at the National University of Singapore.His current research is on game theory and its applications

to economics. He has published many research papers in

international journals and is a Fellow of the Econometric

Society. Chander was formerly Head of Indian Statistical

Institute, Delhi and more recently Head of Department of

Economics, National University of Singapore. He has been a

consultant to Arthur Andersen Economic Consulting and a

visiting scholar to the International Monetary Fund.

Partha SahaAssistant Professor

PhD, MPhil & MA (Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi)

Partha Saha is the Research Coordinator of India PublicPolicy Report. He is primarily interested in understanding

agrarian relations. He has worked on agrarian relations,

socio-economic development in backward regions, skill

development and enhancing employability of workers,

rural non-farm sectors, and determinants of participation

of females in the labour force. Prior to joining JSGP, Partha

was the Deputy Director at the Institute of Applied Manpower

Research (IAMR) and was responsible for research in

employment and skill development. Partha was the co-author

of India Human Development Report (OUP, 2011) brought out by

IAMR. He has published on issues related to agrarian relations,

socio-economic development, and employment creation.

Rajeev Malhotra Professor, Lead Author and Chief Editor, India

Public Policy Report

MSc (LSE), MA (Delhi School of Economics)

Rajeev Malhotra bridges the world of academics

and civil service. He has worked as a development

economist for over 25 years with the Indian Government

and the United Nations. Before joining JGU, he was

the Economic Adviser to Indias Finance Minister.

He has worked on planning and policy modelling, poverty

estimation, human development, human rights indicators,

right to development and Indias fiscal policy and has severalpublications. Rajeev has consulted for APO, UNOHCHR, UNDP,

and UNESCAP, among others. His research interests include

macroeconomic policy issues, human development and human

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Sandeshika SharmaAssociate Professor

PhD (California), MA (Delhi)

Sandeshika Sharma is an economist by training and

does research in the area of International Macro

Economics and Trade Policy. Her area of teaching is

Microeconomics and Quantitative Methods. She has

taught within India and abroad. She completed her PhD

from the University of California at Irvine, USA in 2004. Her area

of research at the time was working on models for the Evolution

of Cooperation in social dilemma problems, using the tools of

Game Theory. Sandeshika is looking to collaborate on researchplatforms in the field of public policy and macroeconomics.

Shiv Visvanathan Professor and Vice Dean

PhD & MA (Delhi School of Economics)

A social anthropologist with a Ph.D. from Delhi

University, Shiv Visvanathan taught at the Delhi School

of Economics, was senior fellow at the Centre for the

Study of Developing Societies, Delhi, Professor at the

DAIICT, Gandhinagar. Shiv has been visiting professor at

the University of Maastricht, Holland, SAARCHI Distinguished

fellow at the University of South Africa, Visiting professor at

Stanford University, Henry Luce Professor at Smith College,Massachusetts, Visiting professor at Goldsmiths College,

London, and visiting professor at the Centre for science policy

at Arizona State University. Shiv is the author of Organising for

Science (OUP 1984), A Carnival for Science (OUP 1997) and

coedited Foul Play: Chronicles of Corruption 1947-1997 with

Harsh Sethi (Banyan books, 1997).

Swagato SarkarAssociate Professor and Assistant Dean

PhD & MPhil (Oxford), MA (Tata Institute of Social Sciences)

Swagato Sarkar is interested in studying the dynamics

of social formations and their transformations from

political economic and normative stand-points. Through

these engagements, he tries to understand the logics

of populist democracy and development, and attempts

to theorise egalitarianism. He was trained in Development

Studies at the University of Oxford, UK, and Social Work at the

Tata institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. Swagato has also

managed a community food security project in tribal Odisha

and produced documentary films on social issues.

Geetika Rathee Senior Research Fellow

BTech (IIT-Kharagpur)

Geetika Rathee is a graduate of Indian Institute

of Technology, Kharagpur. She has undertaken

research work at the Indian Institutes of Management,

Ahmedabad and Bangalore and Landbouw Economisch

Institutte (Wageningen University), The Hague. Her

research interests are peri-urban and urban affairs, primary

sector development and natural resource management.

Suraj GogoiJunior Research AssociateMA (Tata Institute of Social Sciences), BSc (Christ, Bangalore)

Suraj Gogoi graduated in Economics from Christ

University, Bangalore. He completed his post-graduation

in Development Studies from the Tata Institute of Social

Sciences, Mumbai. He is interested in the social and

political history of North-East India.

INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONSbuilding a global network of public policy scholars and leaders

JGU has entered into a broad-ranging collaboration with the

Indiana University, and the University of Texas, A&M, USA to

exchange students and faculty members, to conduct joint re-

search programmes, and share class-room teaching between

both the Universities via video conferencing facility.

JSGP collaborates with universities abroad and international

organisations to organise conferences on current concerns.

In 2013, JSGP organized a conference on Diversity,

Discrimination and Social Exclusion in India and the USA in

collaboration with the Indiana University and the National

Law School of India University, Bengaluru, and another on

Democracy, Governance and Public Policy in collaboration

with the University of California, Berkeley, USA. Forthcoming

conferences will be organized in collaboration with the Sir

Walter Murdoch School of Public Policy and International

Affairs, Murdoch University, Australia, and with the

international journal, Governance.

International Development andPublic Policy Alliance

JSGP is a member of the International Development and Public

Policy Alliance (IDPPA)a network of global public policy

schoolsalong with

Fundacao Getulio Vargas (FGV), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Russian Academy of National Economy and Public

Administration (RANEPA), Moscow, Russia

Beijing Normal University, School of Social Development

and Public Policy (SSDPP), Beijing, China

American University in Cairo (AUC) School of Global Aairs

and Public Policy, Cairo, Egypt

School of Government and Public Policy (SGPP), Jakarta,

Indonesia

School of Public Leadership, Stellenbosch University, South

Africa

IDPPA shares academic research, exchanges teaching resources

and advocates policy actions. It encourages new frameworks

for understanding public policy and is developing comparative

case-studies. JSGP will host the next IDPPA annual conference

on its campus in Sonipat.


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JSGP has initiated capacity development activities to support the administrative and police

services, panchayat organisations, and grass-roots level activists. JSGP regularly organises

training programmes for public servants including senior Indian Administrative Services (IAS)

officers, Central Government Officers and Provincial Administrative Service Officers.

EXECUTIVE EDUCATIONa pathway for the intellectualrenewal of practitioners

RESEARCHsharpening ideas, deepening understanding of a complex world

JSGP is a research-driven school and is dedicated to generate ideas and knowledge about, and practices of, democratised

development. It conducts research through the following dedicated research centres:

Centre for the Study of Democracy and Markets

Centre for Health, Education and Poverty

Centre for Ethics, Law and Political Economy

Centre for Science, Society and Sustainability

Centre for Development and Finance

Centre for the Study of Urban Transformation

Centre for Environmental Economics and Climate Change

CASE STUDY UNIT

Case studies are a pedagogic tool. They are also useful for policy

advocacy based on empirical evidence. This Unit is archiving an

oral history of governance by conducting interviews with policy

makers and advocates for policy reforms in civil society. The Unit

undertakes analytical reviews of legislation in specific domains

including environment, land, right to information, food security,

etc., culminating in case studies. JSGP collaborates with social

movements and civil society organisations to document struggles forsurvival and livelihoods as well as triumphs of entrepreneurship and

progress. Evaluation of the impact of the governments major social

welfare programmes is part of the remit of this Unit.


PUBLICATIONS

Jindal Journal of Public PolicyThis is the in-house journal of JSGP.

It publishes and disseminates rigorous theoretical, applied and

empirical research. Each issue of the journal carries original peer-

reviewed essays.

India Public Policy Report This is the flagship publication of JSGP

which seeks to contribute to policy advocacy and to improve policy

making and implementation process in India. IPPR anticipates andhighlights issues that have a bearing on the development prospects

of the country. It aims to strengthen evidence-based policy making

anchored on normative principles.

Faculty members with the participants of the training programmefor senior IAS officers conducted by JSGP in December 2012


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OUTSTANDING FACILITIESa sprawling green,

pollution-free campus

Astate-of-the art 100-acre safe and

beautiful residential campus

Free access to 24-hour medical attention

managed by the Fortis Hospital.

Library with exhaustive collections and

electronic academic resources

Sport centres with national-level coaches

Gymnasium, Pilates and Yoga Centre with

professional trainers

Music room

Fully air-conditioned modern residential

halls and class-rooms

Campus-wide high-speed wifi network

Library and Reading Room

Hostel

Sporting facilities

JSGP Guest Lecture


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The Admission Office

Jindal School of Government and Public PolicyO.P. Jindal Global University

Sonipat Narela Road

Sonipat (NCR of Delhi)

Haryana 131001, India

M +91 8930110857

+91 8930110764

T +91 130 3057977

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[email protected]

www.jsgp.edu.in

MA PUBLIC POLICY

PROGRAMME2-year full-time, residential degree programme.

The third batch will commence from 1 August 2014.

The students are required to successfully complete 16 courses

spread over four semesters, write a dissertation and undertake

a 2-month internship.

ELIGIBILITYApplicants must have a Bachelors degree from any recognised

university in India or abroad. Students graduating in the summer

of 2014 can also apply. There is no age limit. No work experience is

required.

FEESTuition fee: Rs. 3 lakhs per annum

Fee for Food (vegetarian), Air-conditioned Accommodation (Shared)and Laundry: Rs. 1.50 lakhs per annum.*

Total: Rs. 4.50 lakhs per annum.

*Subject to yearly revision, not exceeding an increase of 10%.

SCHOLARSHIPSThe University offers scholarships based on merit and means

criteria, and Haryana domicile category, ranging from full to partial

tuition fee waiver.

EDUCATION LOANSJGU has tie-ups with HDFC Bank, IDBI Bank, Punjab National Bank,AVANSE and SBI to facilitate educational loans to students.

APPLICATION PROCESSApply online at www.jsgp.edu.in. There is no application fee.

JSGP follows a rolling entrance examination system. The candidate

will have to sit for an online written entrance examination. After

the examination, the shortlisted candidates will be interviewed via

telephone. Admission will be offered to successful candidates.

Seats are limited to 50 to maintain a healthy student-teacher ratio.

ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS NOWFor further details about JSGP and MA Public Policy programme,

please visit our website www.jsgp.edu.in

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JSGP Admission Brochure 2014