Political Economy - JCM034

• Title: Politická ekonomie
• Guaranteed by: CERGE (23-CERGE)
• Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
• Actual: from 2022
• Semester: summer
• E-Credits: 9
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:4/2, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (20)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: Czech
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment; priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
• Guarantor: PhDr. Jan Zápal, Ph.D.
• Pre-requisite : JCM002, JCM017, JCM021, JCM033

Aim of the course

Last update: Mgr. Anna Papariga (01.02.2022)

The course offers an overview of political economy. After completing the course, students should be familiar with different topics comprising political economy and have a sense of each topic's research frontier. The course is meant to be taken in combination with a public finance component.

Literature

Last update: Mgr. Anna Papariga (01.02.2022)

The reading list will be distributed during the first lecture.

Requirements to the exam

Last update: Mgr. Anna Papariga (01.02.2022)

The final grade will be based on:

20 problem sets,

30 final exam,

50 paper presentation.

 

Problem sets (about six) will be distributed during the course and are due by the last lecture of the course. Please submit (email) your problem sets as a pdf in LaTeX.

 

The final exam will be based on the course readings, the problem sets, and the presentations. The exam is open-book and consists of four short questions (out of four given) and one long question (out of two given).

 

One paper presentation should take place in each week (excess supply and demand of weeks and students will be rationed out) and should be devoted to a specific paper. Papers suitable for presentation are designated with a P on the reading list.

Syllabus

Last update: Mgr. Anna Papariga (01.02.2022)

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