This undergraduate seminar examines the effect of elections and electoral systems on economic outcomes as well as the converse, how economic variation influences elections and the choice of electoral systems. More specifically, we will examine topics such as how electoral competitiveness and electoral institutions influence taxation, price levels, income distribution and trade protectionism as well as how change in domestic and international economic aggregates affect the probability of incumbent reelection, opportunistic election timing, and institutional reform. This course is organized as a seminar in which students present and critique each week's readings. While neither PSC200 nor PSC201 is a prerequisite, elementary familiarity with statistics is helpful for understanding much of the reading in this course.