Class 1 - Introduction

Class 2 - Fundamentals of Political Economy and Causal Inference

Effects of Institutions & Controlled Experiments

Class 3 - Effects of Democratic Institutions & Controlled Experiments

Class 4 - Effects of Social Organization & Survey/Lab Experiments

Exercising Power within Institutions & Natural Experiments

Class 5 - Electoral Accountability & Randomized Natural Experiments

Class 6 - Social Accountability & Instrumental Variables

Class 7 - Incumbency Power & Regression Discontinuity

Exercising Power within Institutions & Observational Studies

Class 8 - Violence & Difference-in-Differences

Class 9 - Patronage, Clientelism & Controlling for Confounding

Class 10 - Various & Matching

Causes of Institutional Change & Small-N Studies

Class 11 - Collective Action & Comparative Cases

Class 12 - Gradual Institutional Change & Process Tracing