| Date | Teacher | Place | Topic | Lecture notes / comments |
| 17.01.2012 | Lind | Aud 6 | Introduction | PT: 1, 2. B: 1 |
| 24.01.2012 | Lind | Aud 6 | Median voter models | PT: 2, 3.1-3.3. (Gans and Smart (1996); Barberà and Moreno (2011)) |
| 31.01.2012 | Lind | Aud 6 | Redistributive politics | PT: 6, Lind (2005). (Bénabou and Ok (2001), Kerr (2011)) |
| 07.02.2012 | Lind | Aud 6 | Probabilistic voting | PT: 3.4 |
| 14.02.2012 | Willumsen | Aud 6 | Lobbying and special interest politics | PT: 3.5, 7, Grossman and Helpman (1994), Acemoglu and Robinson (2001). |
| 21.02.2012 | Willumsen | Aud 6 | Citizen candidate models | PT: 5.1-5.3. (Besley and Coate (1997). |
| 28.02.2012 | Lind | Aud 6 | Politician behavior | Duflo and Chattopadhyaym (2004), Pettersson-Lidbom (2008) |
| 13.03.2012 | Lind | Aud 6 | Voter behavior | Lind (2010), Funk (2010); (Andersen et al. (2011)) |
| 20.03.2012 | Willumsen | Aud 6 | Controlling politicians I | PT: 4, B: 3, Willumsen (2011). |
| 27.03.2012 | Willumsen | Aud 6 | Controlling politicians II | Fisman (2001), Khwaja and Mian (2005). |
| 17.04.2012 | Willumsen | Aud 6 | State capacity | Besley and Persson (2009). |
| 24.04.2012 | Willumsen | Aud 6 | Dynamic politics | PT: 13, Tabellini and Alesina (1990). |
| 08.05.2012 | Willumsen | Aud 6 | Summary / Open |
PT refers to chapters in Persson and Tabellini: Political economics. B refers to chapters in Besley: Principled Agents. Links to supplementary readings are given in parentheses