Governments need to solve societal problem and public policies are the result of their problem-solving effort. The course introduced Master and PhD students to the Comparative Political Economy perspective on the policy-making process focusing on the core problems of our time: Democracy, inclusive growth and climate change. The tension between democracy, based on the promise of equality, and capitalism, based on the promise of freedom, is a core question of comparative political economy. We first discuss this tension. We then expand the question and discuss whether the tension between growth and democracy changes into a trilemma between growth, democratic governance and climate change where countries can only achieve two goals at the time.
Students will write an essay of 4000 words on the subject of the course and discuss their position in a final session. Please note that this is a reading-intensive course, which is why it is organized in roughly bi-weekly structure to give students time to process the readings and advance their project.
Dates (subject to change)
Monday 22.04.2024 9.15-11.45
Monday 29.04.2024 8.15-11.45
Monday 13.05.2024 8.15-11.45
Monday 27.05.2024 8.15-11.45
Monday 03.06.2024 8.15-11.45
Monday 10.06.2024 8.15-11.45
Monday 08.07.2024 8.15-11.45
More information on the course can be found here: https://box.hu-berlin.de/d/8592ae477e29450983db/
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