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POL447H POLITICAL ECONOMY OF DEVELOPMENT

Summer 2015

Professor Dickson Eyoh 120 Wetmore Hall New College 300 Huron St 416.978-8288 dickson.eyoh@utoronto.ca Meeting Time: MW 2-4PM Meeting Place: SS2129 Office Hours: Tuesday 3-4PM or By Appointment

1. Overview This course explores some key issues in the study and practice of international development. It aims to deepen appreciation of major substantive and theoretical debates taking place in the political economy of development. It is organized in roughly four parts: overview of definitions of development and major perspectives on the political economy of development and development practice in the post-WW2 era; the emergence and evolution of neoliberal theory and development practice since the 1980s; comparison of the development trajectories (South Korea, India, and Nigeria); and examination of analysis and debate on a number contentious issues in the field today. 2. Format The seminar will be mainly driven by student participation and discussion. Emphasis during the seminar will be placed on critical interpretation of assigned readings through the active participation of students in classroom dialogue and debate. Useful participation will be informed by knowledge of the readings and a willingness to share doubts as well as insights and certainties. Each session will open with different students providing succinct summaries of one or two of the required readings to lay the groundwork for discussion. These summaries will be for a maximum of 7 minutes. They will specify the key issues being addressed, the main arguments of the reading(s) and the supporting evidence and offer an opinion on the strengths and limitations of authors’ analysis. This presentation will be assessed as part of the participation mark and is separate from the weekly reaction papers required of all. The number of presentations by students will be determined by class size. I will assign the readings for presentation of summaries, strictly by alphabetical order. If your assignment is inconvenient, it is your responsibility to arrange a swap with someone else. You will be penalized for failing to present when you are supposed to. Presentations begin in Session 3 (July 8) and first weekly reaction papers are due July 05 for readings for Session 2.

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3. Requirements: The course requirements are as follows. Attendance and Participation 20% Steady but quiet attendance yields 40% of the total marks for this element. Active and informed participation yields higher grades. Weekly Reaction Papers: 20% Weekly reaction papers of a maximum of one single-spaced page (about 300 words) summarizing the arguments in two of the required readings for Sessions 2-11 (one reading Session 8 on Nigeria). WRPs are to be posted on Blackboard by 9PM on the night before the relevant session. WRPs are intended to facilitate discussion in seminars. You can use them to ask for clarification of issues in the readings you do not understand and to raise questions you think are important for the class to consider. The first weekly response paper is due Session 2 (July 5). The reactions papers will not be graded, but you will be penalized for failing to post them before the relevant session and if they are not clearly written, coherent, and grammatically correct. You are expected to read and reflect on the reaction papers of other seminar participants prior to class meetings. This will inform you of the reactions of other class members to the readings. Book Review (July 13) 20% Write a critical review of 3-4 single spaced pages reflecting on the cogency of the main argument in a sole or jointly-authored book in the list of recommended readings for any session. You can also, with my prior approval, review a book on a theme related to the political economy of development not on the recommended list. The emphasis is on concise, focused thought. You need to identify the author(s) thesis, and respond critically to that thesis. Is the argument logically sound? Is it supported both by the evidence that the author cites and by further data or knowledge of which you are aware? Does the book pose an ‘important’ question in a challenging manner? Is the book well-organized and clearly written? Does it suggest interesting new avenues for thought or research? Some of these questions, and perhaps others, should guide your critical reaction. Analytical Paper (June 27) 15% Treat this assignment as the first part of your final paper (see below). The analytical paper will be a maximum of 6 double-spaced pages. It will: (1) specify the issue you will write your paper on and why it is important; (2) present your main hypothesis or argument; (3) sketch and briefly justify your intended theoretical approach; (4) discuss the type of evidence you will use to sustain your analysis; and (5) provide an annotated sample bibliography of a minimum of seven items (articles in academic journals, books and/book chapters) you will use for the paper. Secure my approval of your essay topic before beginning work on this assignment. Final Paper (August 10) 25% Write a critical essay exploring an issue covered in the seminar. Feel free to use a case study or comparison of cases to sharpen your discussion. Alternatively, you may write on a pertinent issue not covered in the seminar (for example, neoliberalism and gender, neoliberalism and nature, neoliberalism and informal economies, the emerging economies and development theory/practice, urbanization and development etc.). Either way, the paper will elaborate the conceptual and substantive issues laid out in

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the analytical paper due June 2. Therefore, be sure to get my approval of your essay topic before you start work on the analytical paper. Maximum length: 16 double-spaced pages (approximately 4,000 words), exclusive of cover page, notes and bibliography. 4. Note on Plagiarism i. “Plagiarism is a serious offence and will be dealt with accordingly. For clarification and information, see the University of Toronto’s policy on Plagiarism at http://www.writing.utoronto.ca/advice/using-sources/how-not-to-plagiarize” ii. “Keep rough and draft work and hard copies of your essays before handing them in. Keep them until

the marked assignments have been returned.”

iii. “Normally, students will be required to submit their course essays to Turnitin.com for a review of

textual similarity and detection of possible plagiarism. In doing so, students will allow their essays to be

included as source documents in the turnitin.com reference database, where they will be used solely for

detecting plagiarism. Terms that apply to the University’s use of the turnitin.com service are described

on the turnitin.com web site.”

5. Accessibility Needs

The University of Toronto is committed to accessibility. If you require accommodations or have any

accessibility concerns, please visit http://www.accessibility.utoronto.ca/ as soon as possible.

6. Late penalty: Two percentage points per day, including weekends. The penalty will be strictly enforced. 7. Submission of written work Written assignments must be submitted in class or to the Department of Political Science office on dates due. Electronic submissions will not be accepted or acknowledged. 8. Readings for the Course

This syllabus identifies required readings for each topic, plus recommended readings. You should find the latter useful in preparing your presentation and essay and following up on a subject which particularly interests you. Obviously, you must read the required readings for each week if we are to have a stimulating seminar. The required readings are available in physical or electronic format through University of Toronto Libraries with these designations: RCR - Robarts Course Reserves EJ– Electronic Journal available through UT Library E-book– e-book available through UT Library

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Session 1/ June 29: Overview of the course Content and organization of course, expectations, evaluation etc.

Pogge, Thomas. 2005. “World Poverty and Human Rights.” Ethics & International Affairs 19(1):1-7 (EJ).

July 1: No Class

Session 2/ July 06 Meanings of Development What does “development” mean? Why is there no agreed upon definition of “development”? How does development theory connect to policy and practice? Required Gustavo Esteva. 2010. “Development,” pp. 1-23 in Wolfgang Sachs, ed. The Development Dictionary: A Guide to Knowledge as Power. 2nd ed. London: Zed Pres (RCR – HD75 D4868 2010) Gilbert Rist. 2014. History of Development: From Western Origins to Global Faith. 4th ed. Zed Press, pp. 8-24(RCR – HD78 R5714 2014) Amartya Sen. 1988. ``The Concept of Development` pp. 9-26 in H. Chenery and T. N. Srinivasan, eds. Handbook of Development Economics. Vol. 1. North Holland: Elsevier (RCR – HD82 H275 1988) Andy Storey. 2009. “Measuring Development”, pg. 25-40 in Gerald McCann and Stephen McCloskey, eds. From the Local to the Global: Key Issues in Development Studies. 2ND ed. London: Pluto Press (RCR – HD82 F76 2009)

Recommended: E. A. Brett. 2009. “Chapter 2: The Basic Assumptions of Development Theory,” in Reconstructing Development Theory. London: Palgrave. Clark, David. 2006. “Capabilities Approach,” in D. Clark, ed. Edgar Companion to Development Studies. Northampton, MASS: Edward Edgar Publishers. Highly recommended collection of overview essays. Michael Cohen and Robert Shenton. 1995. “The Invention of Development.” Pp. 27-43 in Jonathan

Crush (ed), Power of Development. London and New York: Routledge (e-book).

Corbridge, Stuart. 2007. “The (im)possibility of development studies.” Economy and Society 36(2):179-

211.

David Crocker. 2008. Ethics of Global Development: Agency, Capability and Deliberative Democracy.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

James Ferguson. 1994. “Epilogue.” Pp. 279-288 in The Anti-Politics Machine: Development,

Depoliticization, and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.

Christian Lund. 2010. “Approaching development: an opinionated review.” Progress in Development

Studies 10(1):19-34.

David Little. 2003. The Paradox of Wealth and Plenty: Mapping the Ethical Dimensions of Global Development. Boulder: Westview Press, chaps 1, 4 and 5. Gunnar Myrdal. 1974. “What is Development?” Journal of Economic Issues 8(4):729-736.

Martha Nussbaum. 2000. Women and Human Development: The Capabilities Approach. Cambridge:

Cambridge University Press.

Seers, Dudley. 1972. “What are we trying to Measure?” Journal of Development Studies 8(3):21-36.

Sen, Amartya. 1999. Development as Freedom. New York: Anchor Books. Introduction and chapter 1. Immanuel Wallerstein. 1984. “The Development of the Concept of Development.” Sociological Theory

2:102-116.

Thomas, Allen “Meanings and Views of Development” pp. 23-48 in T. Allen and Alan Thomas, eds.

Poverty and Development into the 21st Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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Session 3/July 8: Political Economy of International Development –Overview

Emergence of development as key component of post-war international order; politics, power and

interest in shaping the rise and decline and rise of dominant discourses and policy approaches to

development; the merits of interdisciplinary approach to development theory.

Required Aidian Leftwich, “Politics in Command: Development Studies and the Rediscovery of Social Science.” New Political Economy 10, 4 (2005):573-607 (EJ) John Rapley, 2007. Understanding Development: Theory and Practice in the Third World, 2nd ed. Boulder: Lynne Rienner, chap. 1 and 2. (RCR – HC59.9 R272 2007) David Williams, 2011. International Development and Global Politics: History, theory and practice

London and New York: Routledge, pp. 11-46. ((RCR – JV1318 W5475 2012) Recommended: Alice Amsden, 2007 Escape from Hell: The Developing World’s Journey from Heaven to Hell. Cambridge: MIT Press. Edward Brett, 2009. Reconstructing Development Theory: International Inequality, Institutional Reform and Social emancipation. London: Palgrave Macmillan Colin Leys, 1996. The Rise and Fall of Development Theory. London: James Currey D. Clark. 2005. “Introduction: Development Studies in the 21st Century,” pp. xxvi-xli in David Clark, ed. Elgar Companion to Development Studies. Northampton, MASS: Edward Elgar. David Ekbaldh, 2011. The Great American Mission: Modernization and the Construction of an American World Order. Princeton: Princeton University Press John Harries, 2014. “Development Theories” chapter 2 in Bruce Currie-Alder et. al, eds. International Development: Ideas, Experience and Prospects. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press (E-Book) R. Kanbur, 2002. “Economics, Social Science and Development,” World Development, 30:3:477-86 Gilbert Rist. 2014. History of Development: From Western Origins to Global Faith. 4th ed. London: Zed Books. Chapter 4 & 5. B.H.Mogens & L. Lauridsen. “The Past, Present and Future of Development Studies.” Forum for Development 39:3, 2012, pp. 293-300. A. Payne & N. Phillips. Development. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2010. (highly recommended primer on

development theory)

Rob Potter et. al. 2012. Key Concepts in Development Geography. London: Sage (Chapter 2: Theory and Practice of Development) M. Staniland, What is Political Economy? New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1985, chaps. 1 & 2. David Williams, 2014. “The Study of Development” chapter 1 in Bruce Currie-Alder et. al, eds. International Development: Ideas, Experience and Prospects. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press (e-book) Session 4/July 13: Neoliberalism and Development Theory since 1980s: From Washington to Post-Washington Consensus Is neoliberalism best understood as a development paradigm, an institutional arrangement or a class project (in Harvey’s terms), or some combination of these three? What were the theoretical foundations of the Washington Consensus and why did it become so influential? Is the Post-Washington Consensus actually, as the term suggests, a replacement of the Washington Consensus or is it rather an augmentation of the latter? Required David Harvey, 2005. A Brief History of Neoliberalism. Oxford and New York: Oxford Univ. Press, chapter 1 and 2, skim chapter 3. (e-book)

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David Williams, 2012. International Development and Global Politics: History, theory and practice.

London and New York: Routledge, pp. 91-124 (RCR - JV1318 W5475 2012) Deepak Lal, 1985. “The misconceptions of ‘development economics’.” Finance and Development 22(2):10-13 (EJ) Recommended: Nancy Birdsall and F. Fukuyama. 2011. “The Post-Washington Consensus: Development after the Crisis,” Foreign Affairs, Vol. 90, No. 2 (March/April), pp. 45-53. Nancy Birdsall and F. Fukuyama (eds.) 2011. New Ideas on Development after the Financial Crisis.

Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press.

John Brohman, 1995. “Economism and Critical Silences in Development Studies`` Third World Quarterly

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T. Biersteker, 1995. “The ‘Triumph’ of Liberal Economic Ideas in the Developing World,” pp. 174-96 in Barbara Stallings (ed.), Global Problems, Regional Responses. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Christopher Colcough and James Manor, eds. 1991. States or Markets: Neo-Liberalism and Development Policy Debates. Oxford: Clarendon, especially introduction (excellent overview of neoliberal/neo-classical turn in development economics). D. Craig and D. Porter, Development Beyond Neoliberalism? Governance, Poverty Reduction and Political Economy .London: Routledge, 2006. D. Eyoh and R. Sandbrook, “Pragmatic Neo-liberalism and Just Development in Africa,” in A. Kohli et al.(eds), States, Markets and Just Growth: Development in the 21st Century. Tokyo: UNU Press, 2003. B. Fine, “Neither the Washington nor the Post-Washington Consensus,” in B. Fine et al. Development Policy in the 21st Century, pp. 1-27. London: Routledge, 2001 B. Fine. 2009. “Development as Zombieconomics in the Age of Neoliberalism.” Third World Quarterly 30(5):885-904. C. Gore, 2000. “The Rise and Fall of the Washington Consensus as a Paradigm for Developing Countries,” World Development 28 (5): 789-804 R.N. Gwynne and C. Kay, 2000. “Views from the Periphery: Futures of Neoliberalism in Latin America.” Third World Quarterly, 21 (1): 141-156. G. Harrison, Neoliberal Africa: The Impact of Global Social Engineering (London: Zed, 2010). Eric Helleiner. 2014. Forgotten Foundations of Bretton Woods: International Development and the Making of the Post-War Order. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. Ravi Kanbur. 2009. “The Co-Evolution of the Washington Consensus and the Economic Development

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Anne Krueger. 1990. “Government Failures in Development.” Journal of Economic Perspectives 4 (3):9-23. M. Naim, 2000. “Fads and Fashions in Economic Reforms: Washington Consensus or Washington

Confusion?” Third World Quarterly 21 (3): 505-28

Z. Onis & F. Senses, 2005. “Rethinking the Emerging Post-Washington Consensus,” Development and Change, 36 (2): 263-90 Peet, Richard. 2003. “Globalism and Neoliberalism.” Pp. 1-23 in Unholy Trinity: The IMF, World Bank and WTO. London and New York: Zed Books. J. Pender, 2001. “From ‘Structural Adjustment’ to ‘Comprehensive Development Framework’: Conditionality Transformed?” Third World Quarterly 22 (3): 397-411. John Rapley, 2007. Understanding Development: Theory and Practice in the Third World, 2nd ed. Boulder: Lynne Rienner, chap. 4 and 5. L. Richardson, Contending Liberalisms in World Politics: Ideology and Power. Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2001.

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D. Rodrik, “Goodbye Washington Consensus, Hello Washington Confusion,” Journal of Economic

Literature 44:4, 2006, 973-87.

Narcis Serra and Joseph Stiglitz, ed. 2008. The Washington Consensus Reconsidered: Towards a New

Global Governance. New York: Oxford University Press, chapters 1-4 by Stiglitz, Williamson and

Krugman.

E. van Waeyenberger, 2006. “From Washington to Post-Washington Consensus: Illusions of Development,” pp. 21-45 in Jomo K. S. and Ben Fine (eds). The New Development Economics After the Washington Consensus. London: Zed Press (RCR – HD82 N466 2006)

Session 5/July 15: State-led Development in Comparative Historical Perspective

What is the role of the state in the economy? What role has it played in the economic development of today’s industrialized countries? What is a “developmental state”? Is a “developmental state” still possible today?

Required: Peter Evans, “In Search of the 21st Century Developmental State,” The Centre for Global Political Economy, University of Sussex, Working Paper No. 4, December 2008. [Available online at www.sussex.ac.uk/cgpe/documents/cgpe-wp04-peter-evans.pdf.] Bob Fine, “The Developmental State and the Political Economy of Development,” in Jomo K.S. and B. Fine (eds.), The New Development Economics After the Washington Consensus, pp. 101-22. London: Zed Books, 2006. HD82 N466 2006 John Rapley, Understanding Development, 3rd Edition, Chapter 3, pp. 35-62. Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2007. E.S. Reinert, “The Role of the State in Economic Growth,” in P.A. Toninelli (ed.), The Rise and Fall of State-Owned Enterprise in the Western World,” pp. 73-99. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. E-book Recommended: Nancy Birdsall and F. Fukuyama. 2011. “The Post-Washington Consensus: Development after the Crisis,” Foreign Affairs, Vol. 90, No. 2 (March/April), pp. 45-53. Nancy Birdsall and F. Fukuyama (eds.) 2011. New Ideas on Development after the Financial Crisis.

Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press.

L.C. Bresser-Pereira, “From the National-Bourgeoisie to the Dependency Interpretation of Latin America,” Latin American Perspectives, Vol. 38, No. 3 (May), 2011, pp. 40-58. H.J. Chang. 2003. Globalisation, Economic Development and the Role of the State. London: Zed Books, . H.J. Chang. 2004. “The East Asian Development Experience,” in H.-J. Chang (ed.), Rethinking Development Economics, pp. 107-24. London: Anthem Press. H.J. Chang and I. Grabel. 2004. Reclaiming Development – An Alternative Economic Policy Manual. London and New York: Zed Books. Y.H. Chu. 1995. “The East Asian NICs: A State-Led Path to the Developed World,” in B. Stalling (ed.), Global Change, Regional Response: The New International Context of Development, pp. 199-237. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. M. Cimoli, G. Dosi, and J. Stiglitz. 2009, “The Political Economy of Capabilities Accumulation: The Past and Future of Policies for Industrial Development,” in M. Cimoli, G. Dosi, and J. Stiglitz (eds.), Industrial Policy and Development, The Political Economy of Capabilities Accumulation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. R. French-Davis, O. Muñoz, and G. Palma, “The Latin American Economies, 1950-1990.” Cambridge History of Latin America. Vol. 6. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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E. Frankema and J.-P. Smits. 2005. “Exploring the Historical Roots of Eastern Asia’s Post-war Catch-Up Growth: A Trade Perspective, 1906-1999,” Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, Vol. 10, No. 2, 178-94. A. Foxley, Markets vs States: Post Crisis Economics in Latin America. Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment, 2010. (Available online at http://carnegieendowment.org/files/market_versus_state.pdf.) C. Johnson. 1999. “The Developmental State: Odyssey of a Concept,” in M. Woo-Cumings (ed.), The Developmental State, pp. 32-60. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press. C. Kay, “The Structuralist School of Development,” in his Latin American Theories of Development and Underdevelopment, pp. 25-57. London and New York: Routledge, 1989. A. Kohli. 1999. “Where Do High-Growth Political Economies Come From? The Japanese Lineage of Korea’s ‘Developmental State,’” in M. Woo-Cumings (ed.), The Developmental State, pp. 93-137. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press9. A. Kohli, State-Directed Development: Political Power and Industrialization in the Global Periphery. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2005. J. Martinusen. 1997. “The State and the Development Process,” in Ch. 16 of his Society, State & Market. A Guide to Competing Theories of Development. London and New York: Zed Books Ltd., 1997, pp. 219-36. P. Meller (ed.), The Latin American Development Debate. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1991. G. Palma, “Latin America during the Second Half of the Twentieth Century,” in H.-J. Chang (ed.), Rethinking Development Economics, pp. 125-51. London: Anthem Press, 2004. R. Prebisch. 1950. The Economic Development of Latin America and its Principal Problems. New York: United Nations. A. Saad-Filho, “The Rise and Decline of Latin American Structuralism and Dependency Theory.” In K.S. Jomo and E.S. Reinert (eds.). 2005 The Origins of Development Economics, pp. 128-45. London and New York: Zed Books. J. Toye. 1993. The Dilemmas of Development, Second Edition, Chapters 3-4, pp. 68-117. New York: Basil Blackwell. R. Wade. 1990. Governing the Market: Economic Theory and the Role of the Government in East Asian Industrialization. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1990. M. Woo-Cumings (ed.). 1990. The Developmental State. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1999.

Session 6/ July 20: Institutional Turn in Development Theory and Policy

The context for emergence of interest in institutions in development theory and policy. Are institutions key to economic development and, if so, how does a country get “good” institutions? How is ‘good governance’ defined? What is its relationship to democracy? Can the widely accepted view that democratic governments are better a instigating “breakthroughs” in development be sustained in light of the ‘success’ of the East Asian NICs and also China since 1979? Required D. Acemoglu, S. Johnson & J. Robinson, “The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development,” American Economic Review 91:5 (2001), 1369-1401. EJ. D. Acemoglu, “Root Causes: A Historical Approach to Assessing the Role of Institutions in Economic Development,” Finance & Development 40 (June 2003), 27-30. EJ. Peter Evans, 2004. “Development as Institutional Change: The Pitfalls of Monocropping and the Potentials for Deliberations,” Studies in Comparative in International Development, 38 (4):30-52. EJ. M. Andrews, 2008 “The Good Governance Agenda: Beyond Indicators without Theory,” Oxford Development Studies, 36 (4): 379-407 EJ J. Sachs, “Government, Geography and Growth: The True Drivers of Economic Development,” Foreign Affairs, 91:5 (2012), 142-50. EJ Recommended:

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Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson. 2012. Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty. New York: Crown, 2012. Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James Robinson. 2002. “Reversal of Fortune: Geography and Institutions in the Making of the Modern World Income Distribution.” Quarterly Journal of Economics 117: 1231-1294 J. Aron, “Growth and Institutions: A Review of the Evidence,” World Bank Research Observer 15:1, 2000, pp. 99-135. D. Booth & F. Golooba-Mutebi, “Developmental Patrimonialism? The Case of Rwanda.” WP 16, Africa Power and Politics Programme, ODI, London, March 2011. Nancy Birdsall and Francis Fukuyama, 2011. “The Post-Washington Consensus: Development after the Crisis,” Foreign Affairs March-April, pp.45-53. N.F. Campos & J.B. Nugent, “Development Performance and the Institutions of Governance: Evidence from East Asia and Latin America,” World Development. 27:3, 1999, pp. 439-52. S. Davajaran and Ravi Kabur, “Development Strategy: Balancing Market and Government Failure,” Chapter 4 in Bruce Currie-Alder et. al, eds. International Development: Ideas, Experience and Prospects. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press (E-book) A. Diop et al., “Is Per Capita Growth in Africa Hampered by Poor Governance and Weak institutions?” African Development Review 22:2 (2010), 265-75. U. Engel & R. Olsen, eds., The African Exception: Notes on Governance in Africa. London: Ashgate, 2005. Engerman, Stanley L. and Kenneth L. Sokoloff. 2002. “Factor Endowments, Inequality, and Paths of Development Among New World Economies.” National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 9259. William Easterly, 2006. “You can’t Plan a Market,” chapter 3 in Whiteman’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest have Done so Much Ill and So Little Good. New York: Penguin. A.A. Goldsmith, “Africa’s Overgrown State Reconsidered: Bureaucracy and Economic Growth,” World Politics 51:4 (1999), 520-46. EJ M. Grindle, “Good Enough Governance: Poverty Reduction and Reform in Developing Countries,” Governance, 17:4, 2004, pp. 525-48. EJ M. Grindle, 2007. “Good Enough Governance Revisited.” Development Policy Review 25(5):533-74. EJ S. Haggard, Pathways from the Periphery: The Politics of Growth in the Newly Industrializing Countries. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990 (especially pp. 254-69). G. Harrison, The World Bank and Africa: The Construction of Governance States. London: Routledge, 2004. V. M. Hewitt `Empire, International Development and the concept of Good Government‟ 30-44 in Duffield and Hewitt (ed) Empire, Development and Colonialism : The Past in the Present James Curry 2009. A. Kohli et al. (eds.) States, Markets and Just Growth: Development in the 21st Century. Tokyo: UNU Press, 2003. (good selection of essays relating to all regions of the developing world) Jomo K. S. and Ben Fine, eds. 2006 The New Development Economics After the Washington Consensus. London: Zed Press (good collection of critical essays on range of pertinent issues.) Matthew Lange, James Mahoney and Matthias vom Hau. 2006. “Colonialism and Development: A Comparative Analysis of Spanish and British Colonies.” American Journal of Sociology 111(5): 1412-1462 I. Lienert, “Civil Service Reform in Africa: Mixed Results after 10 Years,” Finance and Development 35:2 10 (1998), 42-5. James Mahoney, 2010. Colonialism and Postcolonial Development: Spanish America in Comparative Perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Chap.1 and 6. J. Martinussen, Society, State and Market: A Guide to Competing Theories of Development, chapters 17-18

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Thandika Mkandawire, “Stylizing Accumulation in African Countries and the Role of the State in Policy Making,” in M. Lundahl and B.J. Ndulu, eds., New Directions in Development Economics. London; Routledge, 1996, pp. 323-51. Thandika Mkandawire, 2012 ``Institutional Mono-cropping and Monotasking in Africa,” pp. 80-112 in A. Noman et al. Good Growth and Governance in Africa. New York: Oxford University Press. Thandika Mkandawire 2001. “Thinking about Developmental States in Africa,” Cambridge Journal of Economics 25 (3): 289-314. EJ M. Moore, 1995. “Promoting Good Government by Supporting Institutional Development?” IDS Bulletin, 26 (2): 89-96. EJ B.J. Ndulu & S.A. O’Connell, 1999. “Governance and Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa,” Journal of Economic Perspectives 13(3): 41-66. EJ Douglass North, 1990. Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. B. Olowu, “Redesigning African Civil Service Reforms,” Journal of Modern African Studies 37:1 (1999), 1-23. D. Olowu and A. Williams, Governance and Democratization in West Africa. Dakar: CODESRIA, 1999. P. Oxhorn & P.K. Starr, eds., Markets and Democracy in Latin America: Conflict or Convergence? Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 1999. R. Palan, “Recasting Political Authority: Globalization and the State,” in R. D. Germain, ed., Globalization and its Critics. New York: St. Martin’s, 2000. A. Przeworski, “Institutions Matter?” Government and Opposition 2004, 527-40. J. Rapley, Understanding Development, Chapter 6. D. Rodrik, A. Subramanian and F. Trebbi, “Institutions Rule: The Primacy of Institutions over Integration and Geography in Economic Development,” IMF WP/02/189, 2002. D. Rodrik, 2003. “Introduction”, in D. Rodrik, ed., In Search of Prosperity. Princeton: Princeton U. Press. R. Sandbrook. 1993. The Politics of Africa’s Economic Recovery, chs. 1, 3, 4. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. J. Swift-Morgan. 2014. “Confronting the Informal in Good Governance: The Case of Decentralized Education System Reform in Guinea,” Development Policy Review 32:4, 399-425.12 R. Palan, “Recasting Political Authority: Globalization and the State,” in R. D. Germain, ed., Globalization D. Rodrik, 2000. “Institutions for High-Quality Growth: What They Are and How to Acquire Them,” Studies in Comparative International Development, 35 (3): 3-31 e-journal D. Rodrik. 2003. “Introduction”, in D. Rodrik, ed., In Search of Prosperity. Princeton: Princeton U Press. J. Sach, 2003. “Institutions Don’t Rule: The Direct Effects of Geography on Per Capita Income” NBER Working Paper No. 9490 (www.nber.org/papers/w9490) Nicolas Van de Walle, 2001 African Economies and the Politics of Permanent Crisis, 1979-1999. Cambridge University Press.

Session 7/July 22: Comparative Cases (1): South Korea and East Asian Developmental State

Role of state in shaping South Korea’s the post-ww2 development trajectory; what combination of

historical factors and political circumstances account for the emergence of South Korea’s developmental

state? Is this experience replicable?

Required Alice Amsden H. 1992. Asia's Next Giant: South Korea and Late Industrialization. New York: Oxford University Press. E-book Atul Kohli 1994. “Where do high growth political economies come from? Japanese Lineage of Korea’s developmental state,” World Development 22, 19, pp. 1269-93 EJ

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Richard Doner, Dan Slater, and Bryan Ritchie. 2005. "Systemic Vulnerability and the Origins of Developmental States: Northeast and Southeast Asia in Comparative Perspective." International Organization 59 (2):327 - 61. EJ Recommended: See Session 5 for additional resources Dae-oup Chang. 2009.Capitalist Development in Korea: Labour, Capital and the Myth of the Developmental State. London: Routledge. Peter Evans, 1995. Embedded Autonomy: States and Industrial Transformation. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Chalmers Johnson, 1987. “Political Institutions and Economic Performance,” pp. 136-164 Frederic Deyo, ed. The Political Economy of East Asian Industrialism. Ithaca, NY: Cornel University Press Atul Kohli, 2004. State-Directed Industrialization: Political Power and Industrialization in the Global Periphery. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Chapters 2-3 Dani Rodrik, 1994. “King Kong Meets Godzilla: The World Bank in the East Asian Miracle,” pp. 13-38 in Albert Fishlow, et al., Miracle or Design? Lessons from East Asian Experience. Washington, DC.: ODC Policy Essay No. 11. Robert Wade, 1990. Governing the Market: Economic Theory and the Role of Government in East Asian Industrialization. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Meredith Woo-Cumings, ed. 1999. The Developmental State. Ithaca, NY: Cornel University Press. Session 8/July 27 Comparative Cases (2): Nigeria and the Development-inhibiting state?

Why has the postcolonial state in Nigeria not been more successful as a vehicle for development? How

much of this failure is explained by its colonial origins?

Required Atul Kohli, 2004. State-Directed Industrialization: Political Power and Industrialization in the Global Periphery. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press chapters 8-9 E-Book Recommended: Paul Collier, C. Soludo and C. Pattilo, ed. 2008. Economic Policy Options for a Prosperous Nigeria. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1-92 Tom Forrest. 1995. Politics and Economic Development in Nigeria. Boulder: Westview Press. Milton Iyaho and Dickson Iriahki, 2015. “Explaining African Economic Growth Performance: the Case of Nigeria,” chap. 18 in Benno Ndulu et al, eds. The Political Economy of Economic Growth in Africa, vol. 2. Country Case Studies Cambridge: Cambridge U. Press. Peter Lewis. 2007. Growing Apart: Oil, Politics and Development in Indonesia and Nigeria. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press Chaps 5, 8 and 9. Michael Peel, 2009. A Swamp Full of Dollars: Pipelines and Paramilitaries at Nigeria’s Oil Frontier. London: I.B. Taurus. David Smith, 2007. A Culture of Corruption: Everyday Deception and Popular Discontent in Nigeria. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Usman Tar, 2009. Politics of Neoliberal Democracy in Africa: State and Civil Society in Nigeria. London: I. B. Taurus.

Session 9/July 29: Democracy, Authoritarianism and Development Is there clear evidence to back claims that democratic or authoritarian regimes are better at promoting development? How is ‘good governance’ related to democracy? How does advocacy of democracy intersect with hierarchies of contemporary globalization? How convincing is the argument that democracy is an inherent value and this is sufficient enough grounds for its advocacy? Required:

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John Gerring et. al 1995. “Democracy and Economic Growth: A Historical Analysis,” World Politics 57 (3): 324-63 EJ Adam Przeworski and Fernando Limongi. 1993. "Political Regimes and Economic Growth." Journal of Economic Perspectives 7 (3):51-69. EJ Michael Ross. 2006. “Is Democracy Good for the Poor?” American Journal of Political Science 50(4): 860-874 EJ Amartya Sen, 1999. “Democracy as a Universal Value,” Journal of Democracy 10 (3): 3-17 EJ Recommended Doran Acemoglu and James Robinson, 2006. Economic Origins of Democracy and Dictatorship. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, chap. 1 (E-Book) Caroline Beer. 2009. “Democracy and Gender Equality,” Comparative Studies in International Development 44 (3):212-27 EJ R. Burkhart and M. Lewis-Beck. 1994. “Comparative Democracy, the Economic Development Thesis',” American Political Science Review, 88 (4): 903-10. EJ John Gerring, S. Thacker and R. Alfaro, 2012. “Democracy and Human Development,” Journal of Politics 74 (1):1-17 EJ Arthur Goldsmith, 2001 “Donors, Dictators and Democrats in Africa,” Journal of Modern African Studies 39 (3):411-36 EJ F. Helliwell. 1994 “Empirical Linkages between Democracy and Economic Growth,” British Journal of Political Science, 24: 225-48. EJ Huntington, S. 1987. “The Goals of Development” in Huntington, S. and Weiner, M (eds.). 1987. Understanding political development: an analytic study. Boston: Little, Brown. Sarantis Kalyvitis and Irene Vlachaki. 2010. “Democracy Aid and the Democratization of Recipients,”

Contemporary Economic Policy 28(2): 188–218. EJ

Terry Lynn Karl, “Economic Inequality and Democratic Instability,” Journal of Democracy 11, 1 (2000): 149-156. EJ T. Landman, 1999. ‘Economic Development and Democracy: The View From Latin America,” Political Studies, 47 (4). EJ Ellen Lust and Stephen Ndegwa, ed.(2012). Governing Africa’s Changing Societies: Dynamics of Reform. Boulder: Lynne Rienner. (especially, Michael Bratton, “ Democracy-Governance Connection” and Peter Lewis, “Democracy and Economic Performance”). James Manor, 1998. “Democratization and the Developmental State,” chap. 4 in M. Robinson and G. White, ed. The Democratic Developmental State: Political and Institutional Design. New York: Oxford University Press. Gerardo Munck, 2009. “Democracy and Development in a Globalizing World: Thinking About Latin America from Within” Studies in Comparative International Development 44 (4): 337-58 EJ Ronaldo Munck, 2002. “Globalization and Democracy: A New “Great Transformation?” ANNALS, AAPSS, 581, 10-21. EJ P. Oxhorn & P.K. Starr, eds. 1999. Markets and Democracy in Latin America: Conflict or Convergence? Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 1999. A. Przeworski, A. et al. 2000. Democracy and Development: Political Institutions and the Well-Being of the World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Chap. 3 and 4. Dieter Rueschemeyer, E. Stephens, and J. Stephens. 1992. Capitalist Development and Democracy, Cambridge: Polity Press. R. Sandbrook and J. Oelbaum, 1997. "Reforming Dysfunctional Institutions Through Democratization? Reflections on Ghana,” Journal of Modern African Studies, 3 (5): 603-46 EJ James Scott and Carie A. Steele. 2011. “Sponsoring Democracy: The United States and Democracy Aid to

the Developing World, 1988–2001.” International Studies Quarterly 55 (1): 47-69 EJ

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Larry Sirowy and Alex Inkeles. 1990. "The Effects of Democracy on Economic Growth and Inequality: A

review." Studies In Comparative International Development 25 (1):126-157. EJ

Kurt Weyland, 1996. Democracy without Equity: Failures of Reform in Brazil. Pittsburgh: University of

Pittsburgh Press, pp.29-78.

Ashutosh Varshney, “Why Have Poor Democracies Not Eliminated Poverty? A Suggestion,” Asian Survey 40:5 (2000): 718-736 EJ Dali Yang. 2006. "Economic Transformation and its political discontents in China: Authoritarianism, Unequal Growth, and the Dilemmas of Political Development." Annual Review of Political Science 9 (1):143 - 64. EJ August 3: No class

Session 10/August 5: Aid and Development

What has been the justification of foreign aid for development in the post-www2 era? What are the key

determinants of patterns of aid allocation? Has foreign aid been beneficial or not to development? How

are emerging aid donors from the global South (China in this case) reshaping the international aid

architecture and is this a good or bad thing?

Required: A. Alesina and D. Dollar. 2000. “Who Gives Foreign Aid to Whom and Why?” Journal of Economic Growth 5(1): 33-63EJ Deborah Brautigam, 2010. “China, Africa and the International Aid Architecture,” http://www.afdb.org/fileadmin/uploads/afdb/Documents/Publications/WORKING%20107%20%20PDF%20E33.pdf (Working Paper No. 107). Jeffrey Sachs, 2006. The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Times. New York: Penguin. Chap. 15 and 16. RCR – HC59.72 P6 S225 2006 Ngaire Woods, 2008, “Whose Aid? Who’s Influence? China, Emerging Donors and the Silent Revolution in Development Assistance,” International Affairs 84(6): 1205-21 e-journal Recommended Carol Adelman, 2007. “Foreign Aid: Advancing Security Interests,” Harvard International Review 29 (3): 62-67. e-journal Carol Adelman, 2009. “Global Philanthropy and Remittances: Reinventing Foreign Aid,” Brown Journal of World Affairs, 15 (2):23-33 e-journal E. Aryeety et. al, eds. 2012. The Oxford Companion to the economics of Africa. Oxford Univ. Press (see entries by P. Guillaumont, “Aid and Development”, Homi Kharas, “Private Aid to Africa” and N. Ndung’u, “HIPC Debt Relief in Sub-Saharan Africa”) Deborah Brautigam, 2009. The Dragon’s Gift: The Real Story of China in Africa. New York: Oxford University Press. Paul Collier, 2010. Conflict, Political Accountability and Aid. London: Routledge. Part 3 Paul Collier, 2007. The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are failing and what can be done about it. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press (online or EB), especially chap. 1 and 7 William Easterly, William. 2006. The white man's burden: why the West's efforts to aid the rest have done so much ill and so little good. New York: Penguin Press. Chapter 1. Arturo Escobar, 1995. Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, chap. 2. James Ferguson. 1994. Antipolitics Machine: “Development”, Depoliticization and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

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H. Kharas and J. Hermas, 2008. `The New Realities of Aid. Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution http://www.brookings.edu George Mavrotas, ed. 2010. Foreign Aid for Development: Issues, Challenges, and the New Agenda. New York: Oxford University Press. **Emma Mawdsley, 2012. “From Recipients to Donors: Emerging Powers and the Changing Development Landscape. London: Zed. **Dambisa Moyo, 2009. Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There is a Better Way for Africa. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, pp. 2-68. Highly recommended polemic on the damaging effects of systemic aid to Africa’s development. Todd Moss, G. Petterson and N. van de Walle, 2008. “An Aid’s Institution Paradox? A Review Essay on Aid Dependency and State-Building in Sub-Saharan Africa,” chap. 8 in W. Easterly, ed. Reinventing Foreign Aid. Cambridge: MIT Press. E. Reusse, 2002. The Ills of Aid: An Analysis of Third World Development Policies. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Roger Riddell, 2007. Does Foreign Aid Really Work?: Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp.31-50, 355-80, 389-413. Sara Walcott and Lawrence Haddad, 2011. ‘Reimagining Aid for the Next Ten Years: What do Donors Think?,” IDS Bulletin 42 (5): 81-86. E-journal Ngaire Wood, 2005. “The Shifting Politics of Foreign Aid,” International Affairs 81 (2): 393-409 e-journal

Session 11/August 10: Violence, Security and Development

What are the bases of the claim that violence and conflict are incompatible with development? What is

meant by the security-development nexus? How has securitization of development shaped the

orientation of development policy, including the allocation of foreign aid?

Required: Mark Duffield, 2001. Global Governance and the New Wars: The Merging of Security and Development. London: Zed Press, chap. 1-4. (RCR HC59.72 D44 D84 2001) Bjorn Hettne, 2010. “Development and Security: Origins and Future,” Security Dialogue 41 (1):31-52. e-

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Jo Beall, T. Goodfellow, and J. Putzel, 2006. “Introductory Article: On the Discourse of Security, Development and Terror,” Journal of International Development 18 (1):51-67. EJ (special issue on development and security after 9/11). Keith Krause. 2014. “Violence, Security and Crime in Development Thought.” Chapter 22 in Bruce Currie-Alder et. al, eds. International Development: Ideas, Experience and Prospects. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press (E-Book) Recommended: Lars Burr, S. Jensen and F. Stepputat, eds. 2007. Security-Development Nexus: Expressions of

Sovereignty and Securitization in South Africa. Pretoria: Human Sciences Research Council

Paul Collier, 2007. The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are failing and what can be done about it. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, especially chap. 2. Paul Collier et al., 2003. Breaking the Conflict Trap: Civil War and Development Policy. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Mark Duffield, 2010. “The liberal way to Development and the Security-Development Impasse: Exploring the Global Life-Chance Divide” Security Dialogue 41 (1): 25-76

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Mark Duffield, 2007. ”Symphony of the Damned: Racial Discourse, Humanitarian Interventions and Complex Emergencies,” Disasters 20 (3):173-193 Mark Duffield, 2007. Development, Security and Unending War: Governing the World of Peoples. Cambridge: Polity Press David Ekbaldh, 2011. The Great American Mission: Modernization and the Construction of an American World Order. Princeton: Princeton University Press (Chapter 8: New Developments: From Cold War to War on Terror). Francois Fouinat. 2004. “A Comprehensive Framework for Human Security,” Conflict, Security and Development 4 (3):289-97 (other useful essays in this special issue on security and development). EJ Patrick Gowan, 2001. “Neoliberal Cosmopolitanism,” New Left Review 82 (Sept-Oct): 82-93 e-journal Jude Howell, 2006. “The Global War on Terror, Development and Civil Society,” Journal of International Development 18 (1):121-35 e-journal or Jude Howell et al. 2008. “The Backlash against Civil Society in the Wake of the Long War on Terror,” Development in Practice 18 (1):82-93. e-journal David Chandler, 2006. Empire of Denial: Politics of State-Building, Oxford: Pluto Press Mary Kaldor, 2007. New and Old Wars: Organized Violence in the Global Era, 2nd ed. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press. Nana Poku and J. Therkelsen. 2012. “Development and Security,” chapter 16 in Alan Collins (ed.) Contemporary Security Studies. 3rd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press (Excellent survey essay). Maria Stern and Jaokim Ojendal, 2010. “Mapping the Development-Security Nexus: Conflict, Complexity, Cacophony, Convergence?,” Security Dialogue 41 (1):5-30. e-journal (special issue on security-development nexus revisited). Francis Stewart, 2004. “Development and Security,” Conflict, Security and Development 4 (3):261-88. e-journal. Francis Stewart and E. V. K. Fitzgerald, eds. 2001. War and Underdevelopment, vol. 1. The Economic and Social Consequences of Conflict. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Joseph Stiglitz, 1998. Towards a New Paradigm of Development: Strategies, Policies and Processes” Prebish/UNCTAD Lecture (download www.unctad.org/en/docs/prebisch9th.en.pdf. A. Stoddard, A., and A. Harmer, 2006. “Little room to maneuver: The challenges to humanitarian action in the New Global Security Environment,” Journal of Human Development 7 (1):23-41 e-journal Necla Tshirgi, M. Lund and F. Mancini, ed. 2009. Security and Development: Searching for Critical Connections. Boulder: Lynne Rienner. Peter Uvin, 1999. Development Aid and Structural Violence: The case of Rwanda. Development 42 (3):49-56. e-journal Peter Uvin, 1998. Aiding Violence: The Development Enterprise in Rwanda. West Hartford: Kumarian Press. World Bank. World Development Report 2011: Conflict, Security nd Development. New York: Oxford

Univ. Press.