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 2025
Political Science:
224F25 Political Representation in Theory and Practice: How Do We Solve the Climate Crisis? (10 ECTS)
243F25 Behavioural Public Policy (10 ECTS)
211F25 Taking the "When" Seriously: Understanding the Importance of the Time-factor in Comparative Public Policy (10 ECTS)
222F25 Polarisation: A Challenge to European Democracies? (10 ECTS)
212F25 Undemocratic Politicians and Voter Support: Causes and Consequences (10 ECTS)
223F25 Lifestyle Symbols and Political Behaviour (10 ECTS)
241F25 Networks in Public Administration (10 ECTS)
244F25 Political Interplay Between Central and Local Government (10 ECTS)
261F25 Advanced Quantitative Methods: Causal Inference (10 ECTS)
214F25 Comparative Climate Politics (10 ECTS)
242F25 Management and Leadership in the Healthcare Sector (10 ECTS)
262F25 Political Data Science (10 ECTS)
245F25 Research and Methods in Comparative Social Policy (10 ECTS)
Economics:
4118: Business Data Analysis (10 ECTS)
4542: Monetary Economics (10 ECTS)
4562: Housing Economics and Policy (10 ECTS)
5361: Macro Finance (10 ECTS)
5415: (P) Micro and Macro Models of the Labor Market (10 ECTS)
5620: (P) Economic Forecasting (10 ECTS)
6371: Advanced Macro Finance (10 ECTS)
6425: Advanced Micro and Macro Models of the Labor Market (10 ECTS)
6452: Advanced Microeconomics (10 ECTS)
6620: Advanced Economic Forecasting (10 ECTS)
6652: Advanced Econometrics (10 ECTS)
Elective Courses - Summer 2025
Political Science
AUG1E25 Quantitative Perspectives on Discrimination, Diversity and Inequality (10 ECTS)
AUG2E25 The Multiethnic Society - Its Psychological Mechanisms and Political Dynamics (10 ECTS)
AUG3E25 Computational Text Analysis (10 ECTS)
AUG4E25 The Ministries from Within: Ministers, Mandarins and Power (10 ECTS)
AUG5E25 Artificial Intelligence in Public Administration (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 2025
Political Science:
101E25 When Public Administraton and Policy Affect Citizens' Attitudes and Behaviour: Theory, Methods and Design (20 ECTS)
211E25 Welfare States in Transition: Politics, Policies and Challenges in the 21st Century (10 ECTS)
213E25 Advanced EU Politics (10 ECTS)
214E25 Historical Political Economy (10 ECTS)
215E25 Green Promises, Grey Reality? Electoral Politics of Climate Change (10 ECTS)
221E25 Radical Right Parties: Democratic Gain or Loss? (10 ECTS)
222E25 Social Groups and the Formation of Political Attitudes (10 ECTS)
223E25 Political Knowledge, Factual Perceptions and (Mis)information: Causes and Consequences (10 ECTS)
224E25 Why Did Americans Vote for Trump? The Impact of American Institutions and Voter Psychology (10 ECTS)
225E25 Social Norms and Political Behaviour: Causes and Consequences (10 ECTS)
233E25 Public Opinion on Foreign Policy: Why It Matters and How It's Shaped (10 ECTS)
241E25 Complex Societal Challenges - Leadership, Governance and Organisation (10 ECTS)
242E25 The Political and Administrative Decision-Making Process (10 ECTS)
243E25 Performance Measurement and Data-informed Learning (10 ECTS)
245E25 Leadership, Motivation and Moral Distress in the Public Sector (10 ECTS)
261E25 Geodata Analysis in R (10 ECTS)
264E25 Political Data Science (10 ECTS)
265E25 Cost-benefit Analyses in the Public Sector (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)
Topics in Economics (5 ECTS)
Topics in Economics (10 ECTS)
(P) Topics in Economics (10 ECTS)
