GV907 Political Economy (Graduate, Essex)

14 October 2020

This is a graduate course on political economy. The course bridges together topics in international relations, comparative political economy, and economics. The goals of the course are to (a) introduce students to contemporary scholarly research on political economy topics, (b) introduce students to strategic models in political science using substantive applications, and (c) stimulate students to form original ideas for promising quantitative research projects in the area of contemporary political economy.

Syllabus

Example Response Paper

Marking Information

Pre-registration Plan

Academic Term:

Fall 2020 to Spring 2021

Weekly Materials:

Week	Name	Attached files
Week 2	Political Economy and Institutions	Diermeyer_Krehbiel_2003.pdf Hale_2005.pdf Gilligan_Johns_2012.pdf
Week 3	Interest Groups and Lobbies --Trade	Grossman_Helpmann_1994.pdf Hiscox_2001.pdf Baccini_2017.pdf
Week 4	Democracy, Regime Type and Trade	Olson_1993.pdf Acemoglu_Robinson_2012.pdf Kono_2006.pdf
Week 5	Voting, Enfranchisement, and Regimes	Acemoglu_Robinson_2000.pdf Boix_2003.pdf Spirling_2016.pdf FreemanQuinn.pdf
Week 6	Emigration	Leblang_2014.pdf Abramitzky_Boustan_Eriksson_2012.pdf Bearce_Hutnick_2011.pdf Walter.2020.GlobalizationBacklash.R1.pdf
Week 7	Immigration	Hainmueller_Hangartner_2013.pdf Malhorta_Margalit_Mo_2013.pdf Shin_2016.pdf Steinmayr_2017.pdf
Week 8	Remittances	Smith_2008.pdf Doyle_2015.pdf Singer_2010.pdf
Week 9	Presidential and Parliamentary Democracy	Nielson_2003.pdf Frye_1997.pdf Catalinac_2017.pdf
Week 10	Elections	Boix_1999.pdf Lizzeri_Persico_2001.pdf Bubeck_Marinov_2017.pdf
Week 11	Inequality	Milanovic_2000.pdf Iversen_Soskice_2006.pdf Li_2003.pdf
Week 16	Institutions and Commitment	Milgrom_North_Weingast_1990.pdf Boix_2013.pdf Tsai_2007.pdf
Week 17	Exchange Rate Regimes	Guisinger_Singer_2010.pdf Bodea_2014.pdf Betz_Kerner_Forthcoming.pdf
Week 18	International Finance and Capital mobility	Basinger_Hallerberg_2004.pdf Jensen_2008.pdf Mosley_Singer_2008.pdf
Week 19	Intra-Party Politics	Kemahlioglu_2011.pdf Kirkland_2017.pdf Shih_Adolph_Liu_2012.pdf
Week 20	Courts	Vanberg_2001.pdf Staton_Vanberg_2008.pdf Gabel_Carrubba_Ainsley_Beaudette_2012.pdf
Week 21	Central Banks	Bodea_Hicks_2015.pdf Meade_Stasavage_2008.pdf Baerg-Lowe-2018.pdf tpm_v23_n1.pdf
Week 22	International Institutions	Johns_2007.pdf Gray_2009.pdf Fang_Stone_2012.pdf Editorial Decision on AJPS-41131.pdf
Week 23	Sovereign Borrowing, Debt, and Financial Crises	Baerg_Hallerberg_2016.pdf Walter_2016.pdf Reinhart_Rogoff_2011.pdf
Week 24	Opposition to Globalization	Hainmueller_Hiscox_2007.pdf Margalit_2012.pdf Naoi_Kume_2011.pdf