Danish and Comparative Politics – Behavior, Institutions, and Methods

The research group, Danish and Comparative Politics – Behavior, Institutions, and Methods, covers at least four important subfields within political science: comparative politics, political behavior, political economy, and European politics. Substantively, the members of the group study political parties, interest groups, political regimes, politics in non-democratic regimes, public opinion formation, electoral politics and many other topics of immediate and contemporary relevance to both academics and practitioners. The group covers and welcomes a broad array of methodological approaches to the study of politics, ranging from design-based causal inference to interviews and participant observation.

The members of the group contribute actively to developing the academic life at the Department of Political Science by doing world-leading research, which is regularly published in the discipline’s most prestigious journals. At the B.Sc.-level, the members of the group are responsible for teaching the course sequence in Danish and Comparative Politics (three courses), the course sequence in Methods (three courses), the course in public policy, and the course in the philosophy of science. At the M.Sc.-level, the members of the group offers the specialization in political behavior, as well as a host of different courses in comparative politics, political economy, and political institutions.

Contact

Associate Professor Carolin Rapp
(Programme director)
Mail: cara@ifs.ku.dk
Phone: +45 27 62 76 33

Associate Professor Frederik Hjorth
(Deputy Coordinator)
Mail:fh@ifs.ku.dk
Phone: +45 26 27 24 41