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Syllabus: https://box.hu-berlin.de/d/97ece734d6b941609cf9/
Many approaches in the field of Political Economy assume organized interests inhabit a crucial role in policy-making and constitute a powerful explanation for cross-national variation in economic, social, and political institutions. This course is meant to introduce literature on how business associations and labor unions form their preferences, do politics, and influence policy-making. We will ask for the sources and types of business power, explore class- and sector-based coalition-building and illuminate the channels through which interest group politics and electoral politics interact, mainly from a comparative perspective. Since interest group politics are commonly associated with a quiet mode of politics in which essential steps take place behind closed doors, and publicly available empirical evidence is sparse, we will furthermore confront the difficulties of researching interest group politics. The empirical examples we will engage with will mainly stem from the field of welfare state and climate policy research. |
