Part 2
To be handed out after 40 minutes


Tuesday May 26, 2020
9.00 a.m. - 3.00 p.m.

Common Future

Assignments with enclosures.

This set of assignments is composed of a general section and three subsidiary assignments.
You must answer both questions (1a and 1b) in the general section.
You must also answer one of the three (A, B and C) subsidiary assignments.

For marking purposes, all three questions (questions 1, 2 and 3) have equal weight.
This means that the general section (in total) weighs about one third and the subsidiary assignment weighs about two thirds.

Please note:
This set of questions was compiled before April 1, 2020. If you feel that developments since then have affected the issues, you may use updated views and evaluations in your answer.

General section

Answers to 1a and 1b must be no more than 700 words in total.

1a.	Develop three hypotheses that can explain the connections between party choice and attitude to climate taxes on airline travel manifested in table 1. Each hypothesis must be supported by academic argument.

1b.

What can be deduced from table 2 about the relationship between the costs of active labour market policy and downward social mobility? Your answer must be supported by a diagram containing a linear regression showing the connection between the costs of active labour market policy and downward social mobility. In your answer, you must use knowledge about labour market relations.

Subsidiary assignment A:

The Danish labour market and the corona crisis

2.

Examine what can be deduced from the materials in enclosure A1 (figure 1, figure 2, figure 3, table 1 and figure 4) about the development of the Danish labour market with the aim of assessing whether there has been a shortage of labour power in the period until 2018. Your examination must be supported by relevant calculations and a diagram showing your calculated numbers. You must use knowledge about labour market relations.

3.

You are the economic-political advisor to the Social Democratic Finance Minister. Write a memo to the Finance Minister enabling him to plan a strategy for handling the economic challenges mentioned in enclosure A2. The memo must take its point of departure in the situation on March 19, 2020, according to enclosure A2, and you must use knowledge about economic policy.

Subsidiary assignment B

The US and Denmark

2.	Compare the views on the changed behaviour and position of the United States in international politics expressed in enclosures B1, B2 and B3. You must use knowledge about power relations in international politics.
3.	Discuss the advantages and disadvantages for Danish foreign policy of the changed power relations in international politics. The discussion must take its point of departure in enclosure B4 and the video clip in enclosure B5, and you must use knowledge about goals and opportunities in Danish foreign policy.

Subsidiary assignment C

Climate policy

2.	Examine what can be deduced from the materials in enclosure C1 (figure 1, table 1, figure 2, and table 2), C2 and C3 about the Danes’ attitudes to the handling of the climate issue. You must assess methodological strengths and weaknesses of using enclosures C1, C2 and C3 to examine the Danes’ attitudes to the handling of the climate issue.
3.	Discuss the opportunities and limitations facing the state when trying to change the population’s climate behaviour. The discussion must take its point of departure in enclosure C4 and the video clip in enclosure C5. You must use knowledge about state and market, including the market mechanism and the political regulation hereof.

List of enclosures

General section

1a:	Table 1:	The Surveybank. General Election Survey 2019.
1b:	Table 2:	OECD.stat. 2017 and 2018.

Subsidiary assignment A: The Danish labour market and the corona crisis.

A1:	Figure 1:	Statistics Denmark. 2019.
	Figure 2:	Statistics Denmark. 2019.
	Figure 3:	Statistics Denmark. 2018.
	Table 1:	Statistics Denmark. 2019.
	Figure 4:	Confederation of Danish Employers. 2019.

A2:	Danske Bank: Update on the crisis: A deep hole has opened up. March 19, 2020. Excerpts.

Subsidiary assignment B: The US and Denmark

B1:	Per Stig Møller: ”The day has dawned, when we can no longer count on the US”. Ræson. July 18, 2018. Excerpts.
B2:	Jonas Stengaard Jensen: ”Marie Krarup: Europe, the US and Russia must find common ground in the European cultural heritage”. Ræson. June 6, 2018. Excerpts.
B3:	Andreas Bøje Forsby: ”Is it still a unipolar world? Yes, the US is still the world’s only superpower despite the rise of China”. Ræson. May 16, 2018. Excerpts.
B4:	Marcus Rubin: ”A cold shoulder”. Politiken. August 22, 2019. Excerpts.
B5:	Deadline: Peter Viggo Jacobsen: ”The alliance with the US is unavoidable”. DR. August 21, 2019. Excerpts.

Subsidiary assignment C: Climate policy

C1:	Figure 1:	Climate Barometer 2018. Concito.
	Table 1:	Climate Barometer 2018. Concito.
	Figure 2:	Agriculture and Food. Danes wish to live more climate-friendly lives. 2019.
	Table 2:	The Passenger Pulse at the Danish Consumer Council. Attitude of Danes to climate- and environment-friendly transportation. March 2019.
C2:	Gundelach and Hauge: ”For the sake of the climate?”. Danish Sociology 2010
C3:	Maria Frellesen Pedersen, Flemming Krigh, Thomas Trondal, Nicklas Ansbjerg: ” The climate behaviour of the Danes: Two meat-free days a week no problem”. Fyens Stiftstidende. August 6, 2019. Excerpts.
C4:	Monday Morning (MM). May 2019.
C5:	DR News: ”Dissenting Danes: Who is responsible for the climate?” DR. May 25, 2019. Excerpts.

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