Course plan

No. Week Date Topic Subtopic Teacher Readings
1 36 4/9 Intro + Public opinion Conceptualizing public opinion FH Achen & Bartels (2017) ch. 1+2
    7/9   Issue attitudes   Hjorth (2021), Ryan & Ehlinger (2023) 1-15
2 37 11/9 Engagement Roots of political interest FH Prior (2019) ch. 1+2, Mondak et al. (2010)
    14/9   Political hobbyism   Hersch (2020), Wolak (2022)
3 38 18/9 Turnout The nature of turnout FH Hansen (2021), Coppock & Green (2016, skip the formulas)
    21/9   Get Out The Vote   Gerber, Green & Larimer (2008), Bhatti et al. (2018)
4 39 25/9 Vote choice Models of the vote choice FH Hansen & Stubager (2021) ch. 4, Ford & Jennings (2020), Huddy, Bankert & Davies (2018)
    28/9   Issue voting and ownership   Hjorth & Larsen (2022), Hjorth (2017a), Hjorth (2017b)
5 40 2/10 Self-interest & economic voting Self-interest FH Weeden & Kurzban (2014) ch. 2+3, Malhotra, Margalit & Mo (2013)
    5/10   Economic and retrospective voting   Achen & Bartels (2016) ch. 4, Fowler & Hall (2018), Larsen (2021)
6 41 9/10 Heuristics & motivated reasoning Heuristics and motivated reasoning FH Lau & Redlawsk (2001), Taber & Lodge (2006), Druckman et al. (2013)
    12/10   Motivated reasoning and elite cueing   Broockman & Butler (2017), Coppock (2022), ch. 1+7
7 43 23/10 Groups & identity Group thinking CV Klar (2013), Vandeweerdt (2021), Jones (2023)
    25/10   Race, ethnicity and religion   Enos (2016), Vandeweerdt, Dinesen & Sønderskov (2022), Abdelgadir & Fouka (2020)
8 44 30/10 Traditional media Effect of media presence CV Foos & Bischof (2022), Kern & Hainmueller (2009), Enikolopov, Petrova & Zhuravskaya (2011)
    02/11   Effect of media content   Simonovitz et al (2018), Vandeweerdt (2022), Paluck (2009)
9 45 06/11 Social media News and agenda setting CV Roozenbeek & van der Linden (2019), Barberá et al. (2019)
    09/11   Movements and regimes   Levy & Mattsson (2023), Tucker et al. (2017), Enikolopov et al. (2020)
10 46 13/11 Interpersonal influence & socialization Interpersonal influence CV Nickerson (2008), Levitan and Verhulst (2016), Munger (2017)
    16/11   Socialization   Jennings, Stoker, & Bowers (2009), Healy & Malhotra (2013)
11 47 20/11 Spatial context & personal experiences Spatial context CV Hopkins (2010), Dinesen & Sønderskov (2015), Getmansky & Zeitzoff (2014)
    23/11   Personal experiences   Egan & Mullin (2012), Eriksson & Stoker (2011), Klein Teeselink & Melios (2021)
12 48 27/11 Representation & accountability Representation CV Rasmussen, Mäder & Reher (2018), Butler & Nickerson (2011), Sevenans (2021)
    30/11   Accountability   Harding (2015), Klašnja and Titiunik (2016)
13 49 04/12 Special topic 1: Movements Causes of joining movements CV Power (2018), Pearlman (2013), Hager et al. (2022)
    07/12   Effects of movements   Hayward (2020), Chenoweth (2021, ch. 2), Ayoub, Page & Whitt (2021)
14 50 11/12 Special topic 2: The dark side of public opinion Affective polarization FH Iyengar et al. (2019), Gidron et al. (2022), Adams et al. (2022)
    14/12   Democratic backsliding   Svolik (2019), Wuttke et al. (2020), Little & Meng (2023)