11.S943
Development, Planning, and Implementation: The Dialectic of Theory and Practice
Fall 2017
Topics
- Introduction—The rationale for the course: Why is it important to understand the difference between conventional theories and actual outcomes?
- Overview of conventional theories of development, planning, and implementation
- Implemenation puzzle: One modernity or multiple modernities?
- Implemenation puzzle: Assessment of development and planning efforts: What has worked and what has not?
- Implemenation puzzle: Bottom-up versus top-down development?
- Implemenation puzzle: Comprehensive versus incremental planning
- Implementation puzzle: Under what conditions do public sector institutions perform well?
- Implementation puzzle: Is politics a hindrance to, or essential for planning?
- Implementation puzzle: How do development professionals define what is ethical practice?
- Implementation puzzle: Rigidity versus flexibility
- Implementation puzzle: Modes of evaluation: What is useful knowledge for practitioners?
- Implementation puzzle: The social construction of learning institutions
- Implementation puzzle: Surety of purpose or humility of not knowing the answer?
Readings
- Friedmann, J. (2002). “A Life in Planning.” In The Prospect of Cities . U of Minnesota Press. – Ch 7. ISBN: 9780816638840.
- Hirschman, A. O. (1995). A Propensity to Self-Subversion . Harvard University Press. – Ch 5. ISBN: 9780674715585.
- Meier, G. (1984) Introduction. In Meier, G. M., & Seers, D. (Eds.). Pioneers in Development (Vol. 375) . New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN: 9780195205428.
- Scott, J. C. (1998). “Authoritarian High Modernism.” In Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed , Yale University Press, 87-102. ISBN: 9780300078152.
- Ferguson, J. (2005). “Decomposing Modernity: History and Hierarchy after Development.” In Anna Loomba et al. (Eds). Postcolonial Studies and Beyond , Duke University Press, 166-181. ISBN: 978082235238.
- Geertz, C. (1996). “Modernities.” In Geertz, C. After the Fact: Two Countries, Four Decades, One Anthropologist . Harvard University Press. ISBN: 9780674008724.
- Inkeles, A., & Smith, D. H. (1974). Becoming Modern: Individual Change in Six Developing Countries . Harvard University Press. – Ch. 2. ISBN: 9780674063761.
- Hirschman, A. O. (1986). “In Defense of Possibilism.” Rival Views of Market Society and Other Recent Essays . Harvard University Press. ISBN: 9780674773035.
- Tendler, J. (1997). Introduction. Good Government in the Tropics . Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN: 9780801860928.
- Hall, P., & Tewdwr-Jones, M. (2010). “Planning, Planners, and Plans.” In Urban and Regional Planning . Routledge. ISBN: 9780415566544.
- Sen, A. (2001). “Market, State, and Social Opportunity in Development.” In Development as Freedom . Oxford University Press. ISBN: 9780195655261.
- Evans, P. B., Rueschemeyer, D., & Skocpol, T. (1985). Bringing the State Back In . Cambridge University Press. – Ch 2. ISBN: 9780521313131.
- Robertson, A. F. (1984). People and the State: An Anthropology of Planned Development . Cambridge University Press. – Ch 2. ISBN: 9780521319485.
- Peattie, L. (1990). “Planning: Rethinking Ciudad Guayana.” In Planning: Rethinking Ciudad Guayana . University of Michigan Press. ISBN: 9780472080694.
- Roll, M. (Ed.). (2014). The Politics of Public Sector Performance: Pockets of Effectiveness in Developing Countries . Routledge. ISBN: 9781138956391.
- Hoch, C. (1994). What Planners Do: Power, Politics, and Persuasion . American Planning Association. ISBN: 9780918286901.
- Krumholz, N. (2011). Making Equity Planning Work: Leadership in the Public Sector . Temple University Press. – Ch 14. ISBN: 9780877227014.
- Brooks, M. P. (2002). “The Political Savvy Planner.” In Brooks, M. P. (2002). Planning Theory for Practitioners . Amer Planning Assn. ISBN: 9781884829598.
- Grindle, M. S., & Thomas, J. W. (1991). “Finding Room for Maneuver.” In Public Choices and Policy Change: The Political Economy of Reform in Developing Countries . JHU Press. P. 182–194. ISBN: 9780801841569.
- Bazerman, M. H., & Tenbrunsel, A. E. (2011). Blind Spots: Why We Fail To Do What’s Right and What To Do About It . Princeton University Press. – Ch 2. ISBN: 9780691156224.
- Giri, A. K., & van Ufford, P. Q. (Eds.). (2003). A Moral Critique of Development: In Search of Global Responsibilities . Routledge. – Ch 9. ISBN: 9780415276269.
- Schwartz, B., & Sharpe, K. (2010). Practical Wisdom: The Right Way To Do the Right Thing . Penguin. – Ch. 3. ISBN: 9781594485435.
- Gutmann, A., & Thompson, D. F. (2014). The Spirit of Compromise: Why Governing Demands It and Campaigning Undermines It. Princeton University Press. ISBN: 9780691160856.
- Tendler, J. (1997). Good Government in the Tropics . Johns Hopkins University Press. Ch. 6. ISBN: 9780801860928.
- Sabel, C. (1993). “Learning by Monitoring: The Institutions of Economic Development.” In Handbook of Economic Sociology , Edited by Neil Smelser and Richard Swedberg. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN: 9780691121260.
- Schwartz, B., & Sharpe, K. (2010). Practical Wisdom: The Rght Way To Do the Right Thing. Penguin . – Ch. 6. ISBN: 9781594485435.
- Polanyi, M. (2009). The Tacit Dimension . University of Chicago Press. ISBN: 9780226672984.
- Hoffman, L. M. (1989). The Politics of Knowledge: Activist Movements in Medicine and Planning . SUNY Press. 191–204. ISBN: 9780887069499.
- Friedmann, J. (1987). Planning in the Public Domain: From Knowledge to Action . Princeton University Press. Appendix A. ISBN: 9780691022680.
- Argyris, C. (2004). Reasons and Rationalizations: The Limits to Organizational Knowledge: The Limits to Organizational Knowledge . Oxford University Press. – Ch. 7. ISBN: 9780199286829.
- Healey, P. (1997). Collaborative Planning: Shaping Places in Fragmented Societies . Palgrave Macmillan. – Ch. 9. ISBN: 9781403949202.
- Stiglitz, J. E., & Greenwald, B. C. (2014). Creating a Learning Society: A New Approach to Growth, Development, and Social Progress . Columbia University Press. – Ch. 16. ISBN: 9780231175494.
- Gardner, H. (2006). Changing Minds: The Art and Science of Changing Our Own and Other People’s Minds . Harvard Business Review Press. – Ch. 9. ISBN: 9781422103296.
- Lear, J. (1998). Open Minded: Working Out the Logic of the Soul . Harvard University Press. – Ch 3. ISBN: 9780674455344.
- Schon, D. (1983). The Reflecive Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action. Basic Books. Pg. 287–354. ISBN: 9780465068784.
Sources
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