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International Development Planning: Foundations
Offers a survey of the histories and theories of international development, and the main debates about the role of key actors and institutions in development. Includes a focus on the impact of colonialism, the main theoretical approaches that have influenced the study and practice of development, as well as the role of actors such as states, markets, and civil society in development. Focuses on the interactions between interventions and institutions on local, national, and global/transnational scales. Offers an opportunity to develop a focus on selected current topics in development planning, such as migration, displacement, participatory planning, urban-rural linkages, corruption, legal institutions, and post-conflict development. Restricted to first-year MCP and SPURS students.
Fall 2011 · Introduction to International Development Planning
Topics
- Course Overview
- History: Colonialism and Imperialism
- History: Ideas and Ideologies of Progress and Modernization
- Concepts: Pro Versus Anti-Development
- Concepts: The Question of Ethics
- Economic Development Theories: Neoclassical and Dependency
- Economic Development Theories: State Intervention and the East Asian Miracle
- Economic Development Theories: New Institutionalism and Law
- Alternative Development Theories: Human Rights and Development
- Development Theories Today in the Context of Global Crisis
- Actors: State
- Actors: Markets and Marketization
- Actors: Civil Society: NGOs and Social Movements
- Actors: Informal Economy and Illegality
- Actors: Global Actors and Institutions
- Multi-level Planning and Scale
- Key Issues: Governance of Complexity in a Globalized World
- Key Issues: Urban-Rural Linkages and Tradeoffs
- Key Issues: Migration and Development
- Key Issues: Participatory Development
- Key Issues: Corruption and Reform of Public Institutions
- Key Issues: Trade, Outsourcing, and Labor Standards
- Key Issues: Aid and Development
- Key Issues: Global Poverty
- Key Issues: Security and Post-Conflict Development and Review
Readings
- SES #: 1 · TOPICS: Course Overview · READINGS: No readings
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- Mazlish, B. “The Idea of Progress.” Daedalus 93 (Summer 1963): 447–61.
- Rothschild, E. “Psychological Modernity in Historical Perspective.” In Rethinking the Development Experience: Essays Provoked by the Work of Albert O. Hirschman. Edited by L. Rodwin and D. Schön. Brookings Institution, 1994, pp. 99–117. ISBN: 9780815775522.
- Geertz, Clifford. “Modernities.” In After the Fact: Two Countries, Four Decades, One Anthropologist (The Jerusalem–Harvard Lectures). Harvard University Press, 1995, pp. 136–68. ISBN: 9780674008717.
- Marglin, Stephen A., et al, eds. Dominating Knowledge: Development, Culture, and Resistance (W I D E R Studies in Development Economics) . Oxford University Press, 1990, pp. 1–28. ISBN: 9780198286943.
- Kolsterman, R. “Arguments For and Against Planning.” In Readings in Planning Theory . Edited by S. Campbell and S. Fainstein. Blackwell, 2003, pp. 86–101. ISBN: 9780631223474.
- Berlin, Isaiah. “The Pursuit of the Ideal.” In The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas . Edited by Isaiah Berlin and Henry Hardy. Knopf, 1991, pp. 1–21. ISBN: 9780679401315.
- Jacoby, R. “On Anti–Utopianism: More or Less.” In Picture Imperfect: Utopian Thought for an Anti–Utopian Age . Columbia University Press, 2005, pp. 37–62. ISBN: 9780231128940.
- Scott, J. C. “The High Modernist City: An Experiment and a Critique.” In Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed . Yale University Press, 1998, pp. 103–45. ISBN: 9780300070163.
- Harvey, D. “On Planning the Ideology of Planning.” In Planning Theory in the 1980’s: A Search for Future Directions . Edited by Robert W. Burchell and George Sternlieb. Center for Urban Policy Research, Rutgers University, 1983, pp. 213–34. ISBN: 9780882850481.
- Hancock, Graham. Lords of Poverty . Camerapix, 1989, parts II and III. ISBN: 9780749305031.
- Giri, Ananta Kumar, and Philip Quarles van Ufford, eds. Chapter 1 in A Moral Critique of Development: In Search of Global Responsibilities . Routledge, 2003. ISBN: 9780415276269.
- Brooks, Michael P. “The Political Savvy Planner.” In Planning Theory for Practitioners . Planners Press, American Planning Association, 2002, pp. 185–95. ISBN: 9781884829598.
- Chambers, Robert. Chapters 3 and 4 in Whose Reality Counts?: Putting the First Last . Intermediate Technology, 1997. ISBN: 9781853393860.
- Lewis, A. W. “Economic Development with Unlimited Supplies of Labor.” In The Economics of Underdevelopment . Edited by A. N. Agarwala and Sampat Pal Singh. Oxford University Press, 1963.
- Baran, Paul. “The Political Economy of Growth.” In The Economics of Underdevelopment: A Series of Articles and Papers. Edited by A. Agarwala and S. Singh. Oxford University Press, 1979. ISBN: 9780195606744.
- Gunder Frank, Andre. “The Development of Underdevelopment.” In Imperialism and Development: A Reader . Edited by Robert I. Rhode. Monthly Review Press, 1971, pp. 4–16.
- Baran, Paul A. “On the Roots of Backwardness.” In The Political Economy of Growth . Monthly Review Press, 2000, pp. 134–61. ISBN: 9780853450764.
- Amsden, Alice H. Chapter 1 in The Rise of “The Rest”: Challenges to the West from Late–Industrializing Economies . Oxford University Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780195139693.
- Gerschenkron, Alexander. Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective, A Book of Essays . Harvard University Press, 1962, pp. 5–30.
- World Bank. Chapters 1 and 2 in The East Asian Miracle: Economic Growth and Public Policy . Oxford University Press, 1993. ISBN: 9780195209938.
- Davis, Diane E. Chapters 1 and 6 in Discipline and Development: Middle Classes and Prosperity in East Asia and Latin America . Cambridge University Press, 2004. ISBN: 9780521002080.
- Amsden, Alice H. “Getting the Prices Wrong.” In Asia’s Next Giant: South Korea and Late Industrialization . Oxford University, 1989. ISBN: 9780195058529.
- ———. “A Theory of Government Intervention in Late Industrialization.” In State and Market in Development: Synergy or Rivalry? Edited by Louis G. Putterman and Dietrich Rueschemeyer. Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1992, pp. 53–84. ISBN: 9781555873110.
- Myint, Hla. Chapter 3 in “Peasant Exports and the Growth of the Money Economy.” In The Economics of the Developing Countries . Hutchinson, 1965.
- Bates, Robert H. Markets and States in Tropical Africa: The Political Basis of Agricultural Policies . University of California Press, 1981, pp. 81–95. ISBN: 9780520042537.
- Clague, Christopher K. “The New Institutional Economics and Economic Development.” In Institutions and Economic Development: Growth and Governance in Less–Developed and Post–Socialist Countries . Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997, pp. 13–36. ISBN: 9780801854934.
- World Bank. “Introduction” and “The Judicial System.” In World Development Report 2002: Building Institutions for Markets . World Bank Publications, 2001. ISBN: 9780195216073.
- Soto, Hernando de. Chapter 6 in The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else . Basic Books, 2003. ISBN: 9780465016150.
- World Bank. Development and Human Rights: The Role of the World Bank . World Bank, 1998, pp. 1–4 and 11–3. ISBN: 9780821343401.
- United Nations. Chapter 1 in Human Rights and Human Development . Human Development Report. Oxford University Press, 2000. ISBN: 9780195216790.
- Pogge, Thomas. Chapter 2 in World Poverty and Human Rights: Cosmopolitan Responsibilities and Reforms . Polity, 2002. ISBN: 9780745629957.
- Orford, Anne. “Globalization and the Right to Development.” In People’s Rights . Edited by Philip Alston. Oxford University Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780198298755.
- Uvin, Peter. Chapters 1 and 6 in Human Rights and Development . Kumarian Press, 2004. ISBN: 9781565491861.
- World Commission on Dams. Dams and Development: A New Framework for Decision–Making: The Report of the World Commission on Dams . Routledge, 2001. ISBN: 9781853837982.
- Shaw, Timothy. “China, India and (South) Africa: What International Relations in the Second Decade of the Twenty First Century?” In The Rise of China and India in Africa: Challenges, Opportunities and Critical Interventions. Edited by Fantu Cheru and Syril Obi. Zed Books, 2010. ISBN: 9781848134362.
- Tendler, Judith. Good Government in the Tropics . Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997, pp. 1–20. ISBN: 9780801854521.
- Annan, K. “The Role of the State in the Age of Globalization.” In The Globalization Reader . Wiley–Blackwell, 2007, pp. 240–3. ISBN: 9871405155533.
- Scott, James C. Introduction and Chapters 1–2 and 10 in Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed . Yale University Press, 1999, pp. 9–53. ISBN: 9780300078152.
- Killick, Tony. “Rethinking the Role of the State.” In A Reaction Too Far: Economic Theory and the Role of the State in Developing Countries . Overseas Development Institute, 1989, pp. 21–33. ISBN: 9780850031201.
- Polanyi, Karl. Chapters 5 and 6 in The Great Transformation. Farrar and Rinehart, 1944.
- Kim, Annette. Chapter 1 in Learning to be Capitalists: Entrepreneurs in Vietnam’s Transition Economy . Oxford University Press, 2008. ISBN: 9780195369397.
- Walzer, Michael. “The Civil Society Argument.” In Dimensions of Radical Democracy: Pluralism, Citizenship, Community . Edited by Chantal Mouffe. Verso, 1996, pp. 89–107. ISBN: 9780860915560.
- Lemos, M. Carmen de Mello. “The Politics of Pollution Control in Brazil: State Actors and Social Movements Cleaning up Cubalas.” World Development 26, no. 1 (1998): 75–87.
- Ostrom, Elinor. Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action . Cambridge University Press, 1990, pp. 88–104 and 207–16. ISBN: 9780521405997.
- Soto, Hernando de. Chapter 6 in The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else . Basic Books, 2000. ISBN: 9780465016143.
- Heyman, J., and A. Smart. “States and Illegal Practices: An Overview.” In States and Illegal Practices . Edited by J. Heyman. Berg, 1999. ISBN: 9781859732625.
- Fernandes, Edesio, and Ann Varley, eds. “Law, the City and Citizenship in Developing Countries: An Introduction.” In Illegal Cities: Law and Urban Change in Developing Countries . Zed Books, 1998. ISBN: 9781856495509.
- Sassen, Saskia. “The Informal Economy: Between New Developments and Old Regulations.” In Globalization and Its Discontents: Essays on the New Mobility of People and Money . New Press, 1999, pp. 153–74. ISBN: 9781565845183.
- Peattie, Lisa. “What Is to be Done With the Informal Sector? A Case Study of Shoe Manufacturing in Colombia.” In Towards a Political Economy of Urbanization in Third World Countries . Edited by Helen Icken Safa. Oxford University Press, 1982, pp. 208–32. ISBN: 9780195613070.
- Soto, Hernando de. Preface and Chapter 5 in The Other Path: The Economic Answer to Terrorism . Basic Books, 2002. ISBN: 9780465016105.
- Sassen, Saskia. “Service Employment Regimes and The New Inequality.” In Globalization and Its Discontents: Essays on the New Mobility of People and Money . New Press, 1999, pp. 137–52. ISBN: 9781565845183.
- Wise, Timothy A., Hilda Salazar, et al. “Investment, Sovereignty and the Environment: The Metalclad and NAFTA’s.” Chapter 11 in Confronting Globalization: Economic Integration and Popular Resistance in Mexico . Kumarian Press, 2003. ISBN: 9781565491632.
- UN Habitat. Investing in Development: A Practical Plan to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals, New York, 2005.
- Stiglitz, Joseph E. “The Promise of Development.” In Making Globalization Work . W. W. Norton and Company, 2006, pp. 25–60. ISBN: 9780393061222.
- “Political Institutions and Governance.” In World Development Report: Building Institutions for Markets . Published for the World Bank, Oxford University Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780195216066.
- International Monetary Fund. Good Governance: The IMF’s Role . International Monetary Fund, 1997, pp. 1–10. ISBN: 9781557756909.
- UNDP. Reconceptualizing Governance (Discussion paper, 1997), pp. 1–20. ( PDF )
- Sen, A. “How to Judge Globalism.” In The Globalization Reader . Edited by Frank J. Lechner and John Boli. Blackwell, 2003, pp. 16–21. ISBN: 9781405102803.
- “Dynamic Cities as Engines of Economic Growth.” In Entering the 21st Century World Development Report, 1999/2000 . Published for the World Bank, Oxford University Press, 2000, pp. 126–38. ISBN: 9780585227368.
- McDougal, Topher L. “Insurgent Violence and the Rural–Urban Divide: The Case of Maoist India.” In Ethnic Conflict, Civil War and Cost of Conflict (Contributions to Conflict Management, Peace Economics and Development). Vol. 17. Edited by Raul Caruso. Emerald Group Publishing, 2011, pp. 69–98. ISBN: 9781780521305.
- Davis, Diane E. Chapters 4 and 5 in Discipline and Development Middle Classes and Prosperity in East Asia and Latin America . Cambridge University Press, 2004. ISBN: 9780521807487.
- Midgley, James. “Community Participation: History, Concepts and Controversies.” In Community Participation, Social Development, and the State . Methuen, 1986, pp. 13–44. ISBN: 9780416398205.
- Webster, N. “Democracy, Development and the Institutionalized Participation of the Poor for Poverty Reduction.” In Applying Public Administration in Development: Guideposts to the Future . Edited by Paul D. Collins. John Wiley and Sons, 2000, pp. 315–28. ISBN: 9780471877363.
- Tendler, Judith. “Decentralization, Participation, and Other Things Local.” In Good Government in the Tropics . Johns Hopkins Press, 1998, pp. 142–63. ISBN: 9780801860928.
- Ferguson, James. The Anti–Politics Machine: “Development.” Depoliticization, and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho . University of Minnesota Press, 1994, pp. 1–22 and 251–78. ISBN: 9780816624379.
- Grindle, M. “The Good, the Bad, and the Unavoidable: Improving the Public Service in Poor Countries.” In For the People Can We Fix Public Service? Edited by John D. Donahue and Joseph S. Nye. Brookings, 2003, pp. 90–113. ISBN: 9780815718963.
- Klitgaard, Robert. Controlling Corruption . University of Chicago Press, 1988, pp. 1–50. ISBN: 9780520059856.
- Wade, R. “Politics and Graft: Recruitment, Appointment, and Promotions to Public Office in Italy.” In Corruption, Development and Inequality: Soft Touch and Hard Graft . Edited by Peter M. Ward. Routledge, 1989, pp. 73–109. ISBN: 9780415019989.
- Banfield, E. C. “Corruption as a Failure of Governmental Organization.” In Ethics in Planning . Edited by Martin Wachs. Center for Policy Research, 1985, pp. 143–61. ISBN: 9780882851037.
- Suri, Navdeeep. “Offshore Outsourcing of Services as a Catalyst of Economic Development: The Case of India.” In Global Capitalism Unbound: Winners and Losers from Offshore Outsourcing . Edited by Eva Paus. Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, pp. 163–80. ISBN: 9781403984296.
- Briening–Kaufman, Chrine. “The Right to Food and Trade in Agriculture.” In Human Rights and International Trade . Edited by Thomas Cottier, et al. Oxford University Press, 2006, pp. 341–81. ISBN: 9780199285822.
- Hensman, Rohini. “Can Labor Standards Improve Under Globalization? International Labor Standards: Globalization, Trade, and Public Policy.” British Journal of Industrial Relations 42, no. 4 (2004): 761–3.
- Easterly, William. Chapters 5 and 11 in The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done so Much Ill and so Little Good . Penguin Press, 2006. ISBN: 9781594200373.
- Sachs, Jeffrey. Chapters 13 and 15 in The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time . Penguin Press, 2005. ISBN: 9781594200458.
- Roy, Ananya. Chapter 1 in Poverty Capital: Microfinance and the Making of Development. Routledge, 2010. ISBN: 9780415876728.
- Aning, Kwesi. “China and Africa: Towards a New Security Relationship.” In The Rise of China and India in Africa: Challenges, Opportunities and Critical Interventions. Edited by Fantu Cheru and Syril Obi. Zed Books, 2010. ISBN: 9781848134362.
- Mondiale, Banque. Post Conflict Reconstruction The Role of the World Bank . World Bank, 1998. ISBN: 9780821342152.
Fall 2003 · Introduction to Planning & Institutional Processes in Developing Countries
Topics
- Introduction
- Historical Advances in Developing and Developing Countries: Lessons for Planning
- Paths Toward Reform
- What Works and What Doesn’t: Interpretations and Misinterpretations
- Working with Corruption
- Traditional Institutions (Politics, Patronage, and Clientelism): Hinders, Helps, or Both?
- Student Comments
Readings
- Chang, Ha-Joon. “Institutions and Economic Development: ‘Good Governance’ in Historical Perspective.” Chapter 3 in Kicking Away the Ladder? - Policies and Institutions for Development in Historical Perspective . London: Anthem Press, 2002, pp. 61-81, 99-123 (rest optional).
- Hirschman, Albert O. “Unbalanced Growth: An Espousal.” Chapter 4 in The Strategy of Economic Development New Haven: Yale University Press, 1958, pp. 62-75.
- Teaford, Jon C. “Trumpeted Failures and Unheralded Triumphs,” “Triumph with the Taste of Defeat.” In The Unheralded Triumph: City Government in America, 1870-1900 . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1984, pp. 1-14, 307-314.
- Tendler, Judith. “Introduction.” Chapter 1 in Good Government in the Tropics . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997, pp. 1-20.
- Hirschman, Albert O. “The Contriving of Reform.” Chapter 5 in J_ourneys Toward Progress: Studies of Economic Policy-Making in Latin America_. New York: The Twentieth Century Fund, 1963, pp. 251-264 and 271-275 (rest optional).
- Houtzager, Peter P. (2003). “Introduction: From Polycentrism to the Polity.” Chapter 1 in Changing Paths: International Development and the New Politics of Inclusion. Edited by Peter Houtzager and Mick Moore. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, pp. 1-31.
- March, James G. “Model Bias in Social Action.” Review of Educational Research 42 (Fall 1972): 413-429.
- Fox, Jonathan. “The Sandwich Strategy: Opening from Above Meets Mobilization from Below.” Chapter 6 in The Politics of Food in Mexico: State Power and Social Mobilization . Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992, pp. 151-205.
- Joshi, A. “A Third Narrative: Frontline Workers and the WBSFSA.” In Roots of Change: Front Line Workers and Forest Policy Reform in West Bengal. Ph.D. Dissertation, Cambridge, MA: Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000, pp. 1-2 and 177-242.
- Moore, Mick P. “Arguing the Politics of Inclusion.” Chapter 10 in Changing Paths: International Development and the New Politics of Inclusion. Edited by Peter Houtzager and Mick Moore. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2003, pp. 260-279.
- Hirschman, Albert O. Development Projects Observed . Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 1967 (reissued 1995), Chapter 1 (pp. 1-8), Chapters 3 and 4 (pp. 86-159).
- Tendler, Judith. Electric Power in Brazil: Entrepreneurship in the Public Sector . Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1968, Chapter 1 (pp. 1-6), Chapter 6 (pp. 175-209).
- Ostrom, Elinor. “A Public Choice Approach to Metropolitan Institutions: Structure, Incentives, and Performance.” Social Science Journal 20 (July 1983): 79-96.
- McGuire, Patrick, and Mark Granovetter. “Shifting Boundaries and Social Construction in the Early Electricity Industry, 1878-1910.” In Making Commercial Domains. Edited by Joseph Porac and Marc Ventresca, 1996.
- Berlan, Jeane-Pierre, and Richard Lewontin. “The Political Economy of Hybrid Corn.” Monthly Review 38 (1986): 35-47.
- Wilson, James Q. Bureaucracy: What Government Agencies Do and Why They Do It . Basic Books: Harper Collins Publishers, 1986, Preface (pp. ix-x) and Part II (pp. 31-110); rest optional. (Available in paperback.)
- Ayee, Joseph. “Survey of Environmental Health Officers (EHOs)”. CEPRESE, Accra, Ghana, 2003, pp. 1-3.
- March, James. “Preface,” “Limited Rationality” (Chapter 1). In A Primer on Decisionmaking: How Decisions Happen. New York: The Free Press, 1994, pp. 1-35. (Available in paperback.)
- DiMaggio, Paul J., and Walter W. Powell. “The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organization Fields.” In The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis. Edited by Walter W. Powell and Paul J. DiMaggio. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991, Chapter 3 (pp. 63-82).
- Tendler, Judith. Inside Foreign Aid . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975, Chapters 1, 5, 8 (pp. 1-7, 54-72, 102-110), rest optional.
- Pfeffer, Jeffrey, and Gerald R. Salancik. The External Control of Organizations . New York: Harper and Row, 1978, Chapters 1, 4 (pp. 1-22, 62-91).
- Lawrence, Paul R., and Jay W. Lorsch. Organization and Environment: Managing Differentiation and Integration . Homewood, Illinois: Richard D. Irwin, 1969, Chapters 1 and 8 (pp. 1-22, 185-203).
- Lipsky, Michael. Street Level Bureaucracy, Dilemmas of the Individual in Public Services. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1980, Chapters 1, 2, 11-13 (pp. 3-25, 159-179, 181-211).
- Oorthuizen, Joost. Water, Works and Wages . New Delhi: Orient Longman Private Ltd, 2003, pp. 1-3 and Chapter 5 (pp. 164-202).
- Justice, Judith. “The Invisible Health Worker: The Peon,” and “Sources of Information.” In Policies, Plans & People: Culture and Health Development in Nepal , Judith Justice. Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1986, pp. 101-106.
- Tendler, Judith. “Preventive Health: The Case of the Unskilled Meritocracy.” In Good Government in the Tropics . Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press [published in Portuguese by Editora Revan and ENAP (Escola Nacional de Administraçno Pública) (Rio de Janeiro), 1998], 1997, pp. 21-45.
- Teaford, Jon C. “The Professionals.” In The Unheralded Triumph: City Government in America , 1870-1900 . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1984, pp. 132-173.
- Pollitt, Christopher. “Justification by Works or by Faith? Evaluating the New Public Management.” Evaluation 1, no. 2 (1995): 133-154.
- Roe, Emery M. “Development Narratives, Or Making the Best of Blueprint Development.” World Development 19, no. 4 (1991): 287-300.
- Joshi, A. “A Third Narrative: Frontline Workers and the WBSFSA.” In Roots of Change: Front Line Workers and Forest Policy Reform in West Bengal . Ph.D. Dissertation, Cambridge, MA, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, pp. 1-2 and 177-242.
- Ehrenhalt, Alan. “The Paradox of Corrupt Yet Effective Leadership.” The New York Times, September 30, 2000, p. A25.
- Bunker, Stephan G. “Collaboration, Competition, and Corruption in Colonization Projects.” In Underdeveloping the Amazon. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988, pp. 180-198.
- Wade, Robert. “The Management of Irrigation Systems: How to Evoke Trust and Avoid the Prisoners’ Dilemma,” World Development 16, no. 4 (April, 1988): 489-500.
- Hojman, David. “Rent-Seeking and Corruption in a Successful Latin American Country: Chile in the 1990s.” In Problems of Democracy in Latin America . Edited by Roberto Espindola. Stockholm: Stockholm University Institute of Latin American Studies, 1996, pp. 35-51.
- Scott, James C. “Corruption, Machine Politics, and Political Change.” American Political Science Review 63, no. 4 (December 1969): 1142-1158.
- Woodall, Brian. " Japan under Construction." In Corruption, Politics, and Public Works . Berkeley: University of California Press, Introduction and Conclusion, pp. 1-24, 124-148.
- Davis, Jennifer. “Corruption in public service delivery: experience from South Asia’s water and sanitation sector.” World Development . 2003. (Forthcoming)
- Tendler, Judith. Rural Works Programs in Bangladesh: Community, Technology, and Graft . For the Transportation Department of the World Bank. Executive summary, 1979, pp. iii-xix.
- Gibson, Edward L. “The Populist Road to Market Reform: Policy and Electoral Coalitions in Mexico and Argentina.” World Politics 49 (April 1997): 339-370.
- Nelson, Joan M. “Poverty, Equity, and the Politics of Adjustment.” In The Politics of Economic Adjustment. Edited by Haggard, Stephan, and Robert R. Kaufman. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992, pp. 221-261.
- Schady, N. R. “The Political Economy of Expenditures by the Peruvian Social Fund (FONCODES), 1991-95.” American Political Science Review 94, no. 2 (2000): 289-304.
- Tendler, Judith. “Why are Social Funds So Popular?” Chapter 17 in Companion Volume of the World Development Report 1999/2000. Edited by S. Yusuf, W. Wu and S. Evenett. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
- Piattoni, Simona. “‘Virtuous Clientelism’: The Southern Question Resolved.” In Italy’s ‘southern question: orientalism in one country . Edited by Jane Schneider. Oxford: Berg, 1998, Chapter 10 (pp. 225-245).
- Krishna, Anirudh. “Structure and Agency: New Political Entrepreneurs and the Rise of Village-Based Collective Action.” Chapter 3 in Active Social Capital: Tracing the Roots of Development and Democracy. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003, pp. 32-54.
- Ananth, Kripa Pur. “Interfaces in local governance in Karnataka.” Economic and Political Weekly, India (October 19, 2002): 4283-4287.
- Gay, Robert. “Between Clientelism and Citizenship: Exchanges, Gifts & Rights in Contemporary Brazil.” Connecticut College, July 2001.
- O’Gorman, Frank. “Patronage and the Reform of the State in England, 1700-1860.” In Clientelism, Interests, and Democratic Representation: The European Experience in Historical and Comparative Perspective . Edited by Simona Piattoni. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
- Weiss, Janet A. “Pathways to Cooperation Among Public Agencies.” Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 7 (1987): 94-117.
- Tendler, Judith. “Reinventing the Projects.” Executive summary and chapter 2 in New Lessons From Old Projects: The Workings of Rural Development in Northeast Brazil. A World Bank Operations Evaluation Study. 1993, pp. xix-xxvi and 14-33.
- Landau, Martin. “Redundancy, Rationality, and the Problem of Duplication and Overlap.” Public Administration Review 29 (July-August 1969): 346-358.
- Miranda, Rowan, and Allan Lerner. “Bureaucracy, Organizational Redundancy, and the Privatization of Public Services.” Public Administration Review 55, no. 2 (March/April 1995): 193-200.
- Bendor, Jonathan. Parallel Systems: Redundancy in Government . Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1985.
- Crook, Richard C., and James Manor. “Democratic Decentralization and Institutional Performance: Four Asian and African Experiences Compared.” Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics 33, no. 3 (November 1995): 309-334.
- Tendler, Judith. “Decentralization, Participation, and Other Things Local.” In Good Government in the Tropics . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997 [published in Portuguese by Editora Revan and ENAP (Escola Nacional de Administraçào Pública) (Rio de Janeiro) 1998], pp. 142-163.
- Ananor, Kojo, and David Brown. “Making Environmental Management More Responsive to Local Needs: Decentralisation and Evidence-based Policy in Ghana.” ODI [Overseas Development Institute] Policy Briefing , no. 3 (April 2003): 1-4. [See especially the box on p. 3 on charcoal]
- Ayee, Joseph, and Richard Crook. “Toilet Wars: Urban Sanitary Services and the Politics of Public-Private Partnerships in Ghana.” Working Paper. CEPRESE, Accra, Ghana: Institute of Development Studies at Sussex, 2003.
- Fox, Jonathan, and Josefina Aranda. Decentralization and Rural Development in Mexico: Community Participation in Oaxaca’s Municipal Funds Program. La Jolla: University of California, Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies. Monograph Series, 42, 1996. (F)
- Olowu, Dele, and Paul Smoke. “Determinants of Success in African Local Governments: an Overview.” Public Administration and Development 12 (1992): 1-17.
- Baiocchi, Gianpaolo. Radicals in Power: The Workers’ Party and Experiments in Urban Democracy in Brazil . New York and London: Palgrave, 2003. Preface, Chapters 1 and 11 (pp. 12-48, 310-337).
- Evans, Peter B. “Introduction: Development Strategies across the Public-Private Divide,” and “Government Action, Social Capital and Development: Reviewing the Evidence on Synergy.” World Development 24, no. 6 (June 1996): 1033-1037, 1119-1132.
- Houtzager, Peter, Adrián Gurza Lavalle, and Arnab Acharya. “Who Participates? Civil Society and the New Democratic Politics in São Paulo, Brazil.” IDS Working Paper, July 2003. Institute of Development Studies at Sussex.
- James, Estelle. “Why Do Different Countries Choose a Different Public-Private Mix of Educational Services?” JHR-The Journal of Human Resources 28, 3 (Summer 1993): 571-592.
- Tendler, Judith. “What Ever Happened to Poverty Alleviation?” World Development 17, no. 7 (1989): 1033-1044.
- Overseas Development Institute. “The Impact of NGO Development Projects.” Briefing Paper 2, May 1996.
- Vivian, Jessica. “NGOs and Sustainable Development in Zimbabwe: No Magic Bullets.” Development and Change 25, no. 1 (1994): 167-193.
- Herring, Ronald J. “Authority and Scale in Political Ecology: Some Cautions on Localism.” In Biological Diversity: Balancing Interests Through Adaptive Collaborative Management . Edited by Louise Buck et al. Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press, 2003, pp. 187-205. (Forthcoming)
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Prerequisites & course information
Prereq: None G (Fall) Not offered regularly; consult department 3-0-9 units
Sources
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- MIT OpenCourseWare ↗Fall 2003
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- Historical MIT OpenCourseWare offering. Named reading entries and schedule topics are automatically extracted from the linked source pages.
- Historical MIT OpenCourseWare offering. Named reading entries and schedule topics are automatically extracted from the linked source pages.