Political Economy of Electoral Democracies

Harvard FAS

This class introduces students to a wide range of topics at the frontier of political economy research, with a focus on electoral democracies. Topics covered include theories of legislator and voter behavior, effects of elections, political media and advertising, special interest politics, and political polarization and populism. Methodologically, the class covers a range of techniques, including administrative data, surveys, text analysis, field and natural experiments, and structural…