Sylabus
The course is comprised of 12 weekly meetings. Each meeting lasts three hours during which a lecture is combined with a (paper) student presentation. There are no exercise sessions.
1. social choice
2. modeling elections
3. other roles of elections, information transmission/aggregation
4. (legislative) bargaining
5. influence
6. agency
7. parties
8. political economy of growth, political failures
9. behavioral political economy
10. conflict
11. media
12. redistribution/income inequality, polarization