DEVELOPMENT THEORY

PIA 3395

Question?

The Role of Normative Theories in an Age of Emiricism

Themes of the Week

Instrumental vs. Structural Theories of Development

Individual vs. Group Focus

Systems Theory and Corporatism

Systems Theory (David Easton) and Structural Functionalism (Almond and Verba, The Civic Culture (1957)

 

1. Individuals and Groups

2. Origins of contemporary Civil Society Model: 

3. “There is a ‘civic culture’ which is the most developed political form.”

 Gabriel Almond and Sidney Verba

  Systems Theory and Structural Functionalism-

Classic Political Science Theories

General Systems Theory

Systems Theory (David Easton. Born June 24, 1917 (age 95)

Structural Functionalism: Gabriel Almond

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interest articulation

Interest aggregation

The Black Box (With-inputs)

Outputs- Policies

Feedback

 Cultural Debates and the Bureaucracy: A Reminder

Disjointed Modernization (Joseph R. Gusfield, University of California at San Diego and Susanne Rudolph, University of Chicago)

  

Misplaced Polarities Theory

Crawford Young

Markovitz Book

Civil Society Collapse and the Impact of (Result of?) Colonialism (Crawford Young)

 The Administrative State

(Picard)

And the Organizational Bourgeoisie (Leonard Markovitz)

Problems with Bureaucracy

Worked on the Colonial state and on the politics of cultural identity in the third world, and presaged the contemporary "instrumentalist" and "constructivist" approaches to political identity.

M. Crawford Young, Born 1931- University of Wisconsin

Debates About Bureaucracy and the Corporate Structure

State centric vs. social centric Development  The importance of bureaucracies and

Institutional Change (Esman and Staudt)   Strong State vs. Strong Bureaucracy: Which

should dominate

 Weak State but Strong Society

 Weak State but strong (Praetorian)

Bureaucracy   

Group Representation Models

Pluralism or Polyarchy?

Corporatism and the Scandinavian Model:

Social Corporatism VS. Polyarchy (Dahl)

Fascism Military Corporatism Religious Corporatism

Class Analysis and Corporatism  

What is Fascism?

Integration of State and Society

Critique of Corporatism

 Class Analysis- Debates About Social Class

Class Analysis: (Marx and his Successors)

Rural vs. Urban

Agricultural vs. Industrial collectivization

Conservative Critique of Class War

Class Analysis: The Dialectic

Historical Dialectic

Is Class Important?

How does it impact Development?

Marx and Class

Class Analysis

The Historical Influence of Marx on Development

Types of Contemporary Corporatism: Examples?

Social Corporatism

Religious Corporatism

Militarist Corporatism

Bureaucratic Corporatism

Class and Corporatism

Discussion

The Role of Normative Theory in an Empirical World