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Citizen Participation, Community Development, and Urban Governance in the Developing World
Spring 2007
Topics
- Introduction to the course
- Setting the context: Globalization and development
- Setting the context (2): Globalization and cities
- Setting the context (3): Decentralization
- Normative approaches (1): Civil society
- Normative approaches (2): Social capital
- Normative approaches (3): Deliberation and the public sphere
- Case studies and debates (1): Empowered participatory governance
- Case studies and debates (2): Non-governmental organizations
- Case studies and debates (3): Political concatenates
- Latin American cases
- South Asian cases
- African cases
Readings
- Hickey, Samuel, and Giles Mohan, eds. Participation - From Tyranny to Transformation? Exploring New Approaches to Participation in Development . London, UK: Zed Books, 2005. ISBN: 9781842774618.
- Evans, Peter, ed. Livable Cities? Urban Struggles for Livelihood and Sustainability . Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780520230255.
- Harriss, John, Kristian Stokke, and Olle Tornquist. “Introduction: The New Local Politics of Democratization.” In Politicising Democracy: The New Local Politics of Democratisation . Hampshire, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. ISBN: 9781403934819.
- Evans, chapter 1.
- Melo, Marcus Andre, and Gianpaolo Baiocchi. “Deliberative Democracy and Local Governance: Towards a New Agenda.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 30 (2006): 587-600.
- Carley, Michael. “Top-Down and Bottom-Up: The Challenge of Cities in the New Century.” In Urban Development and Civil Society . Edited by Michael Carley, et al. London, UK: Earthscan Publications, 2001. ISBN: 9781853837173.
- Pierre, Jon. “Comparative Urban Governance: Uncovering Complex Causalities.” Urban Affairs Review 40 (2005): 446-462.
- Dahl, Robert. “A Democratic Dilemma: System Effectiveness versus Citizen Participation.” Political Science Quarterly 109 (1994): 23-24.
- McGee, T. G. “Globalization and the Rural-Urban Relations in the Developing World.” In Globalization and the World of Large Cities . Edited by Fu-Chen Lo and Yue-Man Yeung. Tokyo, Japan: United Nations University Press, 1998. ISBN: 9789280809992.
- Ponte, de Giulia. “Changing Ideas on the City: Multilateral Development Aid Institutions.” International Social Science Journal 172 (2002): 205-216.
- McCarney, Patricia. “Disjunctures, Divides, and Disconnects: The Promise of Local Government in Development.” Isandla Institute Dark Roast Occasional Paper Series 2 (2000).
- van Vliet, Willem. “Cities in a Globalizing World: From Engines of Growth to Agents of Change.” Environment and Urbanization 14, no.1 (2002): 31-40.
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- United Nations Centre for Human Settlements. Cities in a Globalizing World: Global Report on Human Settlements . London, UK: Earthscan Publications, 2001, chapter 3. ISBN: 9781853838057.
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- United Nations Development Programme. “Decentralized Governance for Development: A Combined Practice Note on Decentralization, Local Governance and Urban/Rural Development.” In UNDP Publications , April 2004. (Skim)
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- Törnquist, Olle. “The Political Deficit of Substantial Democratisation.” In Politicising Democracy: Local Politics and Democratisation in Developing Countries. Edited by John Harriss, Kristian Stokke, and Olle Tornquist. Hampshire, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, chapter 1. ISBN: 9781403934819.
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- Lewis, David. “Civil Society in African Contexts: Reflections on the Usefulness of a Concept?” Development and Change 33 (2002): 569-586.
- Alagappa, Muthiah, ed. Civil Society and Political Change in Asia: Expanding and Contracting Democratic Space . Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2004, pp. 25-40. ISBN: 9780804750974.
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- Rosenblum, Nancy, and Robert Post, eds. Civil Society and Government . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001, pp. 1-25, 370-399. ISBN: 9780691088020.
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- Bohman, J. “Citizenship and Norms of Publicity.” Political Theory 27 (1999): 176-203.
- Hajer, M. A., and H. Wagenaar, eds. Deliberative Policy Analysis: Understanding Governance in the Network Society . Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2003. ISBN: 9780521530705.
- Eade, Deborah, ed. Development, NGOs, and Civil Society . Oxford, UK: Oxfam, 2000. ISBN: 9780855984427.
- Mercer, Claire. “NGOs, Civil Society and Democratization: A Critical Review of the Literature.” Progress in Development Studies (2002): 5-22.
- Obiyan, A. Sat. “A Critical Examination of the State versus Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in the Policy Sphere in the Global South: Will the State Die as the NGOs Thrive in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia?” African and Asian Studies 4, no. 3 (2005): 301-326.
- Kamat, Sangeeta. “NGOs and the New Democracy: The False Saviors of International Development.” Harvard International Review 25, no. 1 (2003): 65-69.
- Heller, P. “Moving the State: The Politics of Democratic Decentralization in Kerala, South Africa and Porto Alegre.” Politics and Society 29 (2001): 131-163.
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- Avritzer, L. Democracy and the Public Space in Latin America . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002, chapters 3-4. ISBN: 9780691090887.
- Carley, et al., eds. Urban Development and Civil Society . London, UK: Earthscan Publications, 2001, chapter 11. ISBN: 9781853837173.
- Montgomery, Mark. “The Challenge of Urban Governance.” In Cities Transformed . Edited by Richard Stren, et al. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 2003, chapter 9. ISBN: 9780309088626.
- Grindle, M. Audacious Reforms: Institutional Invention and Democracy in Latin America . Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000, introduction and chapter 1. ISBN: 9780801864216.
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- Melo, M., and F. Rezende. “Decentralization and Governance”. In Democratization and Democratic Governance in Latin America. Edited by Joseph Tulchin and Andrew Selee. Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars, 2004.
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- Harriss, John. “Politics Is a Dirty River: But Is There a ‘New Politics’ of Civil Society?” Perspectives from Global Cities of India and Latin America . Paper, 2005, p. 16.
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- Carley, Michael, et al., eds. Urban Development and Civil Society . London, UK: Earthscan Publications, 2001, chapter 3. ISBN: 9781853837173.
- Heinrich, Volkhart Finn. “The Role of NGOs in Strengthening the Foundations of South African Democracy.” Voluntas 12 (2001): 1-15.
- McCarney, Patricia, and Richard Stren, eds. Governance on the Ground . Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2003, chapter 8. ISBN: 9780801878503.
- Eade, Deborah, ed. Development, NGOs, and Civil Society . Oxford, UK: Oxfam, 2000, pp. 109-114 and 175-188. ISBN: 9780855984427.
- Friedman, Steven, and Caroline Kihato. “South Africa’s Double Reform: Decentralization and the Transition from Apartheid.” In Decentralization, Democratic Governance, and Civil Society in Comparative Perspective: Africa, Asia, and Latin America . Edited by Philip Oxhorn, Joseph S. Tulchin, and Andrew D. Selee. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004, pp. 75-114. ISBN: 9780801879197.
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- Carley, Michael, et al., eds. Urban Development and Civil Society . London, UK: Earthscan Publications, 2001, chapter 11. ISBN: 9781853837173.
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