Political Science Approaches to Climate Action

Knowledge

You will:

Gain knowledge about scientific progress in the following areas:

• the history of climate politics, from the early 1990s and until the 2020s, globally, within the EU, and domestically
• the design of domestic climate policy portfolios: targets, instruments, administrative procedures, and organizations
• differences and similarities in climate policy portfolios across countries and over time
• factors shaping international and domestic climate policy and politics, including the role of industry, politicians and political parties, science, and activism
• ways in which material endowments, political systems, and the quality of government influence climate action across countries

Skills

You will be able to:

• specify how politics may hamper and facilitate climate action
• evaluate the effectiveness of various types of international climate collaborations
• assess the fairness and democratic legitimacy of various climate governance approaches
• understand how climate governance at international, regional, and domestic levels interact
• be able to communicate academic knowledge in writing and orally and provide constructive criticism of other students’ assignments

General competence:

You will:

• evaluate the political feasibility of climate governance ideas and initiatives
• assess the strengths and weaknesses of specific local, domestic, and international climate governance initiatives

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This course is not available for single course students.

Lectures and seminars.

Compulsory activities:

This course has mandatory teaching and requires physical presence at seminars.

• Attend at least three of the five seminars
• Hand in and present a draft of your seminar paper
• Comment on other students' seminar papers
• Hand in your finalized seminar paper

The seminars are taught in English, and the papers handed in must be written in English.

See the faculty`s rules for reassignment of seminar groups and requirements for compulsory activities.

Absence from compulsory activities:

If you are ill or have another valid reason for being absent from compulsory activities, your absence may be approved or the compulsory activity may be postponed.

• Report absence from or the need for a postponed deadline on a compulsory activity

Access to teaching:

A student who has completed compulsory instruction and coursework and has had these approved, is not entitled to repeat that instruction and coursework, and does not have to in order to retake the exam. If a student have only partially approved compulsory activities, they must complete those again to take a new exam, along with any other compulsory activities they haven't yet passed. A student who has been admitted to a course, but who has not completed compulsory instruction and coursework or had these approved, is entitled to repeat that instruction and coursework, depending on available capacity.

• 4 hour school exam

You must have passed the compulsory activities in order to sit the exam.

• Illness at exams / postponed exams
• Resitting an examination