# Calendar

## First Half of the Class taught by Prof. Daron Acemoglu

Course readings.
LEC # | TOPICS | KEY DATES
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Voters (Sessions 1–7)
1–2 | Collective Choices and Voting |
3 | Voting and Information Aggregation |
4–5 | Votes and Political Decisions in Practice |
6–7 | Election Politics Gone Wrong: Lobbying, Vote Buying, Clientelism, Coercion, and Populism. | Pset #1 due after lecture #5
Politicans (Sessions 8–10)
8–9 | Political Agency |
10 | Political Agency Gone Wrong | Pset #2 due after lecture #9
Policies (Sessions 11–14)
11 | Economic Policy under Representative Democracy |
12 | Political Compromise |
13–14 | Economic Policy under Nondemocratic Institutions | Pset #3 due after lecture #14

## Second Half of the Class taught by Prof. Benjamin Olken

Course calendar.
TOPICS | KEY DATES
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Conflict (Sessions 15–17)
Theory: Why Does Conflict Take Place? Bargaining Failures and Other Reasons |
Why Does Conflict Occur? Costs, Benefits, and Other Factors |
Counterinsurgency |
The Costs of Conflict | Pset #4 due after lecture #17
Collective Action (Sessions 18 & 19)
Collective Action and Group Size |
Collective Action and Ethnic Heterogeneity |
Social Capital and Collective Action |
Promoting Collective Action |
Can Stimulating Collective Actions Change Institutions? |
Decentralization and Local Capture |
Media (Sessions 20 & 21)
Political Influence on Media |
Media Bias and Voting |
Media's Impact on Policy |
Media and Protest |
Bureaucracy (Sessions 22 & 23)
Do Bureaucrats Matter? |
Incentives for and Allocation of Bureaucrats |
Selection of Bureaucrats |
Rules vs. Discretion | Pset #5 due after lecture #23
Corruption (Sessions 24–27)
Efficiency Costs |
The Official's Decisions to Be Corrupt: Wages, Incentives, and Selection |
The IO of Corruption | Pset #6 due after lecture #25
Corruption and Politics |