ECON 754: Topics in Political Economy I

Topics include general study of elections and electoral politics; voting, voting rules, strategic voting and voter participation; opportunistic versus policy-motivated politicians and political budget cycles; special interest groups and distributive politics; politics of economic reform; modeling weak political states.

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