Public Policy Specialisation
It is important that you check your academic regulations before deciding which courses you wish to follow. The courses listed below is in the economics and political science fields as reqiured in the academic regulations.
When considering which elective courses you wish to attend, please pay attention to the principles used for the time tables to avoid overlapping courses. Find the course clusters in the Course registration section or check the Timetables for overlapping courses.
Please find the course descriptions in the course catalogue.
Mandatory Courses
Mandatory courses - Autumn:
(4428:) Politics and Economics of the EU (10 ECTS)
(4518:) The Economics of the Welfare State (10 ECTS)
Mandatory courses -Spring:
(4427:) Economics of Competition and Regulation (10 ECTS)
(5425:) Applied Public Policy (P) (10 ECTS)
From the 2025 academic regulations onward, course codes will no longer be included in the titles.
Elective courses - spring 2026
Political Science:
241F26 Public Administration under Pressure: Implications for Employees and Citizens (10 ECTS)
1610F26 Implementation - Challenges and Potentials in Delivering Public Policies (10 ECTS)
211F26 A Political Elite? Careers, Revolving-door Lobbyism and the Professionalisation of Danish Politics (10 ECTS)
242F26 Management and Leadership in the Healthcare Sector (10 ECTS)
244F26 Experimental Studies of Public Administration (10 ECTS)
261F26 Political Geo-data Science with R (10 ECTS)
222F26 Support for and opposition to the Political System: Causes, Concepts and Consequences (10 ECTS)
221F26 Housing Markets and Political Behaviour (10 ECTS)
212F26 Populist Parties, Party Competition and Contemporary Democracy (10 ECTS)
262F26 Political Data Science (10 ECTS)
224F26 The Politics of Place and Inequality (10 ECTS)
263F26 Advanced Quantitative Methods: Causal Inference (10 ECTS)
Economics:
Business Data Analysis (10 ECTS)
Monetary Economics (10 ECTS)
Macro Finance (10 ECTS)
(P) Micro and Macro Models of the Labor Market (10 ECTS)
(P) Economic Forecasting (10 ECTS)
Topics in Economics (5 ECTS)
Topics in Economics (10 ECTS)
(P) Topics in Economics (10 ECTS)
Elective Courses - Summer 2026
Political Science
AUG2E26 The Multiethnic Society: Its Psychology and Political Dynamics (10 ECTS)
AUG5E26 The Ministries from Within: Ministers, Mandarins and Power (10 ECTS)
Summer University:
EU Politics in Theory and Practice (International Summer Course in Brussels) (10 ECTS)
Economics:
Summer Topics in Economics (5 ECTS)
Summer Topics in Economics (10 ECTS)
Elective Courses - Autumn 2026
Political Science:
263E26 Advanced Political Science Methods (10 ECTS)
227E26 The Role of Skills in Behavioural Political Science (10 ECTS)
225E26 Unequal Democracy: Does Money Matter for Who Gets Represented? (10 ECTS)
244E26 How Should the Money be Spent? Politics and Priorities in the Public Sector (10 ECTS)
241E26 Climate and Other Complex Societal Challenges: Leadership and Governance (10 ECTS)
243E26 Central-local Government Relations (10 ECTS)
228E26 Geographic Polarisation in Political Behaviour (10 ECTS)
245E26 Making Government Work: Evidence-Based Strategies for Empowered and Effective Public Servants (10 ECTS)
212E26 Climate Policy and Rational Choice (10 ECTS)
262E26 Political Data Science (10 ECTS)
216E26 International Cooperation and Organisations in Times of Crises (10 ECTS)
223E26 Political Persuasion: How to Convince Others in Politics (10 ECTS)
224E26 Shocks and Votes: How Crises Shape Political Behaviour (10 ECTS)
226E26 Social Media and Politics (10 ECTS)
Economics:
Labour Economics (10 ECTS)
Micro 2 (10 ECTS)
Macro 2 (10 ECTS)
Economics of Education and Inequality (10 ECTS)
Microeconometrics (10 ECTS)
Time Series Econometrics (10 ECTS)
Machine Learning Methods in Empirical Economics (10 ECTS)
Health Economics (10 ECTS)
International Economics (10 ECTS)
Economic Growth and the Environment (10 ECTS)
(P) Applied Microeconometrics (10 ECTS)
(P) Environmental Economics (10 ECTS)
Topics in Economics (5 ECTS)
Topics in Economics (10 ECTS)
(P) Topics in Economics (10 ECTS)
