62912 GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIAL WELFARE

Autumn Quarter 2016

Days/Time: Thursdays, 5:30-8:20 Room: E-II Course site: http://chalk.uchicago.edu

Office: BW-16 Office Hrs: Tuesdays 4:30-5:30, and by appointment Email: [email protected]

A. Course Description

The persistence of disparities in social development across countries is one of the major problems societies struggle to understand and address. This course will critically examine the major theories of global development along with contemporary debates relating to international social welfare. Students will assess how political, economic, historical, and environmental factors influence different nations’ development trajectories, and compare how alternative models of service delivery and social intervention serve or fail to serve their intended populations. The geographic focus of the course will be Latin America and Africa, though case studies may also be drawn from other regions of the world. The course will be useful for both students who have had previous international experience and students who are interested in international social work and/or development practice.

B. Course Objectives

Several objectives will guide our course activities, including lectures, discussions, and written assignments. By the end of the course, it is expected that students will:

 Gain exposure and familiarity with the fundamental writings and academic literatures concerning global economic and political development  Critically analyze and evaluate competing arguments concerning social intervention across diverse settings and contexts  Apply key ideas and concepts to contemporary debates concerning global development and international social work practice  Synthesize and distill broad-ranging academic and public policy literatures into discrete conclusions and recommendations for development policy and/or social work practice

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 Develop effective oral and written communication skills necessary to work with different individuals, groups, and organizations within the international development community and to serve diverse populations through social work practice in international settings

C. Required Books

There are four required books for the course listed below. The books have been ordered at the University bookstore for convenience, but you are free to obtain them wherever is easiest and most affordable. All other required readings will be available on the course website through the University of Chicago Chalk system. Note that students are expected to have all required readings available for reference during class sessions (paper or digital copies are acceptable).

1. Sen, Amartya. 1999. Development as Freedom. New York: Oxford University Press.

2. Acemoglu, Daron, and James Robinson. 2012. Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty. New York: Crown Publishing Group.

3. Gibson, Clark C, Krister Andersson, Elinor Ostrom, and Sujai Shivakumar. 2005. The Samaritan’s Dilemma: The Political Economy of Development Aid. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.

4. Banerjee, Abhijit, and Esther Duflo. 2011. Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty. New York: PublicAffairs.

D. Grading and Written Assignments

Your grade in the course will be based on four assignments and class participation in the following proportions:

 Class participation and attendance: 15%  Short paper and leading discussion (1): 10%  Short paper and leading discussion (2): 10%  Take-home midterm exam: 25%  Take-home final exam: 40%

Class participation and attendance: Students are expected to come to class prepared to discuss the required readings and to make several contributions each week. Beginning in the second week, all students will be expected to post at least one discussion question per reading to the course website by 9 AM on the day of our class session (Thursdays). Our class sessions are ultimately a collective exercise, and all students benefit when their classmates arrive prepared and ready to critically engage the readings. It is expected that all students will respect the values and views expressed by their classmates, while still critiquing them and considering alternative perspectives. All students should expect that they will be pushed to consider the value basis of their ideas, the empirical evidence supporting them, and their relevance to policy and social work practice. It is important that we allow each other to have strong opinions (or not) but also that

2 we keep our discussions professional. Participation is critical to learning in this class, and therefore it will compose 15% of your final grade.

Short papers and leading discussions: Each student will complete two short papers (3-pages double-spaced each) during the term and will be responsible for leading the group discussion during the two corresponding class sessions. Students are expected to develop an argument in these short papers and by doing so synthesize and draw connections among the week’s readings. These papers provide students the opportunity to explore in detail an issue or idea raised across a given topic’s readings. Additionally, students should prepare 5-8 discussion questions related to the required readings and include those on the fourth/final page of their papers. Short papers must be submitted and received electronically in MSWord format by 9 AM on the Wednesday prior to class. No late papers will be accepted, barring extenuating circumstances. Then, students who have submitted papers for the week will be responsible for leading discussion during the second half of the corresponding class period; when multiple students submit papers for the same session, they are encouraged to collaborate in planning and leading the discussion. Students will sign up for their short paper and discussion leading weeks on the first day of class. Each paper, along with leading the class discussion for that week, is worth 10% of your final grade.

Midterm and final exams: Students will complete two take-home exams at the midterm and finals periods of the term. The midterm exam will be distributed in advance and is due between the 5th and 6th class meetings of the term on Monday, October 31st. The final exam will be handed out near the end of the quarter and it is due on Thursday, December 8th. Both the midterm and final exams will give students opportunities to discuss key concepts covered in the course, apply those ideas in new settings, make connections across readings, critically evaluate arguments, and write in a clear and professional manner. Students who have concerns about their writing skills may consider attending the SSA writing seminar. No late submissions will be accepted for either exam, barring extenuating circumstances. The midterm exam is worth 25% of your grade and the final exam is worth 40%.

E. Accommodations for Disabilities

Any student with special needs or difficulties in learning and completing course assignments should see the instructor as soon as possible. Please refer to the Student Manual or the relevant portion of the University website (http://disabilities.uchicago.edu/accommodation_process) for student rights and available resources pertaining to assistance and accommodation for special needs or disabilities.

F. Academic Integrity

It is contrary to academic integrity and to the spirit of intellectual inquiry to submit the statements or ideas of work of others as one's own. Proper acknowledgment of another's ideas, whether by direct quotation or paraphrase, is expected. If any written or electronic source is consulted and material is used from that source, directly or indirectly, the source should be identified by author, title, and page number, or by website and date accessed. Any questions

3 about what constitutes "use" should be addressed to the instructor. Also, please note that students may not use the same assignment content to fulfill different course requirements.

G. Course Outline

The course will be divided into 10 weekly sessions as follows:

 Week 1: Conceptualizing development (September 29th)  Week 2: Geography and natural resources (October 6th)  Week 3: Legacies of colonialism and slavery (October 13th)  Week 4: Culture, identity, and interests (October 20th)  Week 5: States, markets, and development models (October 27th)  Week 6: Globalization and neocolonialism (November 3rd)  Week 7: Foreign aid and humanitarianism (November 10th)  Week 8: Political institutions and governance (November 17th)  Week 9: Thanksgiving – NO CLASS (November 24th)  Week 10: State capacity and contemporary reforms (December 1st)

Below are the assigned readings for the course, as well as optional recommended readings and optional related materials. Students are responsible for completing all required readings prior to coming to class on the assigned week. The optional readings and materials are there to serve as a resource for students particularly interested in a given topic during the course or in the future. Students are responsible for bringing all required readings to class, either in print or electronic form. Occasionally the required readings may be modified and students will be notified as to any changes in the assigned readings at the end of previous week’s class meeting.

“Acemoglu & Robinson” refers to the Acemoglu & Robinson (2012) book, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

“Sen” refers to the Sen (1999) book, Development as Freedom

“Banerjee & Duflo” refers to the Banerjee & Duflo (2011) book, Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty

“Gibson et al.” refers to the Gibson, Andersson, Ostrom, & Shivakumar (2005) book, The Samaritan’s Dilemma: The Political Economy of Development Aid

*All other required readings can be found on the course website, http://chalk.uchicago.edu.

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Week 1: Conceptualizing development  Class meeting on September 29, 2016

Required Readings: 1. Acemoglu & Robison (2012): Preface and Chapter 1 2. Sen (1999): Introduction, Chapter 1, and Chapter 2 3. United Nations Development Programme. 2015. “Technical Notes for Human Development Report 2015: Work for Human Development.” http://hdr.undp.org/sites/default/files/hdr2015_technical_notes.pdf 4. Brunner, Ronald D. 2004. “Context-Sensitive Monitoring and Evaluation for the .” Policy Sciences 37(2): 103–36. 5. Vance, Marion Ritchey. 2009. “Measures to Match the Mission: How the Grassroots Development Framework Came to Be.” Grassroots Development 30(1): 20–29.

Optional Recommended Readings:  Grindle, Merilee S. 2004. “Good Enough Governance: Poverty Reduction and Reform in Developing Countries.” Governance 17(4): 525–48.  Bray, David Barton. 2009. “What Big Development Thinkers Ignore: 40 Years of Getting Ahead Collectively.” Grassroots Development 30(1): 2–9.  Ramalingam, Ben, Harry Jones, Toussaint Reba, and John Young. 2008. Exploring the Science of Complexity: Ideas and Implications for Development and Humanitarian Efforts. London, England: Overseas Development Institute. Working Paper.  United Nations Development Programme. 2015. “Human Development Report 2015: Work for Human Development.” http://hdr.undp.org/sites/default/files/2015_human_development_report.pdf [skim tables on pages 207-269]  Banerjee, Abhijit V., and Esther Duflo. 2006. “The Economic Lives of the Poor.” MIT Department of Economics Working Paper No. 06-29.  Nussbaum, Martha C. 2011. Creating Capabilities: The Human Development Approach. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Optional Related Materials:  “200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes,” BBC Four The Joy of Stats with Hans Rosling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbkSRLYSojo  “Problems with GDP as an Economic Barometer,” Joseph Stiglitz: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUaJMNtW6GA  “Median Income as a Better Measure of Development Progress,” CGD Podcast with Nancy Birdsall and Christian Meyer: http://www.cgdev.org/blog/median-income-better- measure-development-progress-nancy-birdsall-and-christian-meyer  “Portfolios of the Poor,” Development Drums Episode 18: http://developmentdrums.org/267  “Complexity and Development,” Development Drums Episode 33: http://developmentdrums.org/627

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Week 2: Geography and natural resources  Class meeting on October 6, 2016

Required Readings: 1. Diamond, Jared. 1997. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. 1st ed. W. W. Norton & Company. [Prolouge, p. 87, and Afterword] 2. Bloom, David E., and Jeffrey D. Sachs. 1998. “Geography, Demography, and Economic Growth in Africa.” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (2): 207–95. [Pages 207-240 and 263-289] 3. Sachs, Jeffrey, and Pia Malaney. 2002. “The Economic and Social Burden of Malaria.” Nature 415(6872): 680–85. 4. Acemoglu & Robison (2012): Chapter 2, pages 48-56 (The Geography Hypothesis) 5. Ross, Michael L. 2012. The Oil Curse: How Petroleum Wealth Shapes the Development of Nations. Princeton University Press. [Chapters 1 and 4]

Optional Recommended Readings:  Diamond, Jared. 1997. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. 1st ed. W. W. Norton & Company. [Chapters 1-19]  Sachs, Jeffrey D., and Andrew M. Warner. 2001. “The Curse of Natural Resources.” European Economic Review 45(4–6): 827–38.  Haber, Stephen, and Victor Menaldo. 2011. “Do Natural Resources Fuel Authoritarianism? A Reappraisal of the Resource Curse.” American Political Science Review 105(01): 1–26.  Andersen, Jørgen J., and Michael L. Ross. 2013. “The Big Oil Change A Closer Look at the Haber–Menaldo Analysis.” Comparative Political Studies: 0010414013488557.  Dunning, Thad. 2008. Crude Democracy: Natural Resource Wealth and Political Regimes. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press.

Optional Related Materials:  “The magic washing machine,” Ted Talk by Hans Rosling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZoKfap4g4w  “Our Economy Depends on Maintaining the Forests,” CGD Podcast: http://www.cgdev.org/blog/our-economy-depends-maintaining-forests-podcast-brazils- amazon-champion  “Can Deliberative Democracy Cure the Resource Curse?,” CGD Podcast with Justin Sandefur: http://www.cgdev.org/blog/can-deliberative-democracy-cure-resource-curse- podcast-justin-sandefur  “Defying the Resource Curse,” CGD Podcast: http://www.cgdev.org/blog/defying- resource-curse

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Week 3: Legacies of colonialism and slavery  Class meeting on October 13, 2016

Required Readings: 1. Acemoglu & Robison (2012): Chapter 9 2. Sokoloff, Kenneth L., and Stanley L. Engerman. 2000. “History Lessons: Institutions, Factors Endowments, and Paths of Development in the New World.” The Journal of Economic Perspectives 14(3): 217–32. 3. Lange, Matthew, James Mahoney, and Matthias vom Hau. 2006. “Colonialism and Development: A Comparative Analysis of Spanish and British Colonies.” American Journal of Sociology 111(5): 1412–62. 4. Nunn, Nathan. 2008. “The Long-Term Effects of Africa’s Slave Trades.” The Quarterly Journal of Economics 123(1): 139–76. 5. Nunn, Nathan, and Diego Puga. 2010. “Ruggedness: The Blessing of Bad Geography in Africa.” Review of Economics and Statistics 94(1): 20–36.

Optional Recommended Readings:  Migdal, Joel S. 1988. Strong Societies and Weak States: State-Society Relations and State Capabilities in the Third World. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. [Intro to Part 2 and Chapters 2-4]  Acemoglu, Daron, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson. 2001. “The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation.” The American Economic Review 91(5): 1369–1401.  Nunn, Nathan, and Leonard Wantchekon. 2011. “The Slave Trade and the Origins of Mistrust in Africa.” American Economic Review 101(7): 3221–52.  Young, Professor Crawford. 1994. The African Colonial State in Comparative Perspective. Press.

Optional Related Materials:  Wainaina, Binyavanga. 2006. “How to Write about Africa.” Granta Magazine. https://granta.com/how-to-write-about-africa/ (September 23, 2016).  “Rewriting Africa,” Binyavanga Wainaina on Talk to Al Jazeera: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMODRFS2Pbc

Week 4: Culture, identity, and interests  Class meeting on October 20, 2016

Required Readings: 1. Rostow, W. W. 1971. The Stages of Economic Growth: A Non-Communist Manifesto. Cambridge University Press. [“The Five Stages of Growth – a Summary,” pages 4-16] 2. Learner, Daniel. 1958. The Passing of Traditional Society. Free Press. [“The Grocer and The Chief: A Parable,” pages 37-49]

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3. Inglehart, Ronald, and Christian Welzel. 2007. Modernization, Cultural Change, and Democracy: The Human Development Sequence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Introduction and Chapter 1] 4. Easterly, William, and Ross Levine. 1997. “Africa’s Growth Tragedy: Policies and Ethnic Divisions.” The Quarterly Journal of Economics 112(4): 1203–50. 5. Habyarimana, James, Macartan Humphreys, Daniel N. Posner, and Jeremy M. Weinstein. 2007. “Why Does Ethnic Diversity Undermine Public Goods Provision?” American Political Science Review 101(04): 709–25. 6. Acemoglu & Robison (2012): Chapter 2, pages 56-63 (The Culture Hypothesis)

Optional Recommended Readings:  Sen (1999): Introduction, Chapter 10  Weber, Max. 2001. The Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism. London; New York: Routledge.  Granato, Jim, Ronald Inglehart, and David Leblang. 1996. “The Effect of Cultural Values on Economic Development: Theory, Hypotheses, and Some Empirical Tests.” American Journal of Political Science 40(3): 607–31.  Jackman, Robert W., and Ross A. Miller. 1996. “The Poverty of Political Culture.” American Journal of Political Science 40(3): 697–716.  Granato, Jim, Ronald Inglehart, and David Leblang. 1996. “Cultural Values, Stable Democracy, and Economic Development: A Reply.” American Journal of Political Science 40(3): 680–96.  Posner, Daniel N. 2004. “The Political Salience of Cultural Difference: Why Chewas and Tumbukas Are Allies in Zambia and Adversaries in Malawi.” The American Political Science Review 98(4): 529–45.  Kuran, Timur. 2011. The Long Divergence: How Islamic Law Held Back the Middle East. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Optional Related Materials:  “Populism and Nationalism are a Threat to Global Cooperation,” CGB Podcast with IMF’s Christine Lagarde: http://www.cgdev.org/blog/populism-and-nationalism-are- threat-global-cooperation-podcast-imf-christine-lagarde

Week 5: States, markets, and development models  Class meeting on October 27, 2016

Required Readings: 1. Young, Professor Crawford. 1994. The African Colonial State in Comparative Perspective. Yale University Press. [Chapter 2] 2. Sen (1999): Chapter 5 3. Gilpin, Robert. 2001. Global Political Economy: Understanding the International Economic Order. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. [Chapter 12] 4. Williamson, John. 1990. “What Washington Means by Policy Reform.” In Latin American Adjustment: How Much Has Happened?, chapter 2, ed. John Williamson. Washington, DC: Institute of International Economics.

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5. Bremmer, Ian. 2009. “State Capitalism Comes of Age: The End of the Free Market?” 88(3): 40–55. 6. Bates, Robert H. 1981. Markets and States in Tropical Africa: The Political Basis of Agricultural Policies. University of California Press. [Introduction, Chapter 5, and Chapter 9] 7. Pritchett, Lant, Michael Woolcock, and Matt Andrews. 2013. “Looking Like a State: Techniques of Persistent Failure in State Capability for Implementation.” The Journal of Development Studies 49(1): 1–18.

Optional Recommended Readings:  Acemoglu & Robison (2012): Chapter 5  Haggard, Stephan. 1990. Pathways from the Periphery: The Politics of Growth in the Newly Industrializing Countries. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press.  Przeworski, Adam. 1991. Democracy and the Market: Political and Economic Reforms in Eastern Europe and Latin America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.  Soto, Hernando de. 2003. The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else. 1st ed. Basic Books.  Edwards, Sebastian. 2012. Left Behind: Latin America and the False Promise of Populism. University Of Chicago Press.  Williamson, Jeffrey G. 2011. Trade and Poverty: When the Third World Fell Behind. The MIT Press.

Optional Related Materials:  “How Fair is Fair Trade?,” CGD Podcast with Kimberly Elliot: http://www.cgdev.org/blog/how-fair-fair-trade-%E2%80%93-kimberly-elliott

**MIDTERM EXAM DUE ON MONDAY, OCTOBER 31ST**

Week 6: Globalization and neocolonialism  Class meeting on November 3, 2016

Required Readings: 1. World Bank. 2005. World Development Report 2006: Equity and Development. Washington, D.C.: The World Bank & Oxford University Press. [“Overview,” pages 1- 17] 2. Sen (1999): Chapter 4 3. Dos Santos, Theotonio. 1970. “The Structure of Dependence.” The American Economic Review 60(2): 231–36. 4. Valenzuela, J. Samuel, and Arturo Valenzuela. 1978. “Modernization and Dependency: Alternative Perspectives in the Study of Latin American Underdevelopment.” Comparative Politics 10(4): 535–57.

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5. Berg, Andrew, and Jonathan Ostry. 2011. “Equality and Efficiency: Is There a Trade-Off Between the Two or Do They Go Hand in Hand.” Finance and Development 48(3): 12– 16. 6. Stiglitz, Joseph E., and Andrew Charlton. 2006. “Fair Trade for All: How Trade Can Promote Development.” World Ark Magazine March/April: 9–17. 7. Birdsall, Nancy. 2014. “Thomas Piketty’s Capital and the Developing World.” Ethics & International Affairs 28(4): 523–38.

Optional Recommended Readings:  Sen (1999): Chapter 3  Frank, Andre Gunder. 1966. “The Development of Underdevelopment.” Monthly Review 18(4): 17–31.  Toye, John, and Richard Toye. 2003. “The Origins and Interpretation of the Prebisch- Singer Thesis.” History of Political Economy 35(3): 437–67.  Williamson, Jeffrey G. 2011. Trade and Poverty: When the Third World Fell Behind. The MIT Press.  William, Easterly. 2007. “Inequality Does Cause Underdevelopment: Insights from a New Instrument.” Journal of Development Economics 84(2): 755–76.  Deaton, Angus. 2015. The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality. Princeton University Press.  Piketty, Thomas. 2015. The Economics of Inequality. Cambridge, Massachusetts; London, England: Belknap Press.

Optional Related Materials:  “From Poverty to Power,” Development Drums Episode 37: http://developmentdrums.org/756  “CDI 2015: How Do Rich Countries’ Policies Affect Development?,” CGD Podcast: http://www.cgdev.org/blog/cdi-2015-how-do-rich-countries-policies-affect-development- podcast-owen-barder  “Reducing Inequality Does Not Equal Reducing Poverty,” CGD Podcast with Nora Lustig: http://www.cgdev.org/blog/reducing-inequality-does-not-equal-reducing- poverty-podcast-nora-lustig  “Whether and How to Measure Inequality Post-2015,” CGD Podcast with Alex Cobham: http://www.cgdev.org/blog/whether-and-how-measure-inequality-post-2015

Week 7: Foreign aid and humanitarianism  Class meeting on November 10, 2016

Required Readings: 1. Sachs, Jeffrey. 2006. The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time. Penguin Books. [Chapters 13 and 14] 2. Easterly, William. 2007. The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good. First Edition. Penguin Books. [Chapter 1]

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3. Burnside, Craig, and David Dollar. 2000. “Aid, Policies, and Growth.” American Economic Review 90(4): 847–68. 4. Gibson et al. (2005): Chapters 1, 7, 9-11 5. Banerjee & Duflo (2005): Chapter 1

Optional Recommended Readings:  Radelet, Steven. 2006. A Primer on Foreign Aid. Washington, DC: Center for Global Development. Working Paper Number 92.  Easterly, William R. 2002. The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists’ Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics. The MIT Press.  Przeworski, Adam, and James Raymond Vreeland. 2000. “The Effect of IMF Programs on Economic Growth.” Journal of Development Economics 62(2): 385–421.  Van de Walle, Nicolas. 2001. African Economies and the Politics of Permanent Crisis, 1979-1999. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press. [Chapter 5]

Optional Related Materials:  “Rewriting Africa,” Binyavanga Wainaina on Talk to Al Jazeera: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMODRFS2Pbc  “The Great Escape (Angus Deaton),” Development Drums Episode 41: http://developmentdrums.org/824  “Mind, Society and Behavior,” Development Drums Episode 45: http://developmentdrums.org/904  “Beyond Planning,” Development Drums Episode 19: http://developmentdrums.org/278

Week 8: Political institutions and governance  Class meeting on November 17, 2016

Required Readings: 1. Acemoglu & Robison (2012): Chapters 3, 11-12, and 15 2. Sen (1999): Chapter 6 3. Banerjee & Duflo (2005): Chapter 10 and Conclusion 4. Olson, Mancur. 1993. “Dictatorship, Democracy, and Development.” The American Political Science Review 87(3): 567–76. 5. Lake, David A., and Matthew A. Baum. 2001. “The Invisible Hand of Democracy: Political Control and the Provision of Public Services.” Comparative Political Studies 34(6): 587–621. 6. Ross, Michael. 2006. “Is Democracy Good for the Poor?” American Journal of Political Science 50(4): 860–74.

Optional Recommended Readings:  Bates, Robert H. 2009. Prosperity & Violence: The Political Economy of Development, Second Edition. W. W. Norton & Company.  Baum, Matthew A., and David A. Lake. 2003. “The Political Economy of Growth: Democracy and Human Capital.” American Journal of Political Science 47(2): 333–47.

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 Stasavage, David. 2005. “Democracy and Education Spending in Africa.” American Journal of Political Science 49(2): 343–58.  Brown, David S., and Wendy Hunter. 1999. “Democracy and Social Spending in Latin America, 1980-92.” The American Political Science Review 93(4): 779–90.  Grindle, Merilee S. 2009. Going Local: Decentralization, Democratization, and the Promise of Good Governance. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.  Faguet, Jean-Paul. 2012. Decentralization and Popular Democracy: Governance from Below in Bolivia. University of Michigan Press.  Van de Walle, Nicolas. 2001. African Economies and the Politics of Permanent Crisis, 1979-1999. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press. [Chapter 6]  Slater, Dan. 2008. “Can Leviathan Be Democratic? Competitive Elections, Robust Mass Politics, and State Infrastructural Power.” Studies in Comparative International Development 43(3-4): 252–72.

Optional Related Materials:  “Why Nations Fail,” Development Drums Episode 40: http://developmentdrums.org/795  “Accountability and Openness,” Development Drums Episode 36: http://developmentdrums.org/744

Week 9: Thanksgiving  NO CLASS meeting on November 24, 2016

Week 10: State capacity and contemporary reforms  Class meeting on December 1, 2016

Required Readings: 1. Migdal, Joel S. 2001. State in Society: Studying How States and Societies Transform and Constitute One Another. New York: Cambridge University Press. [Chapter 1] 2. Keefer, Philip, and Stuti Khemani. 2005. “Democracy, Public Expenditures, and the Poor: Understanding Political Incentives for Providing Public Services.” The World Bank Research Observer 20(1): 1–27. 3. Easterly, William. 2007. The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good. First Edition. Penguin Books. [Chapter 5] 4. Ferguson, James. 1994. “The Anti-Politics Machine: ‘Development’ and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho.” The Ecologist 24(5): 176–81. 5. Andrews, Matt. 2013. The Limits of Institutional Reform in Development: Changing Rules for Realistic Solutions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Chapters 1 and 10] 6. Banerjee & Duflo (2005): Chapters 6-9

Optional Recommended Readings:  Sen (1999): Chapter 8 and 11

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 Acemoglu & Robison (2012): Chapter 14  Grindle, Merilee S. 2007. “Good Enough Governance Revisited.” Development Policy Review 25(5): 533–74.  Geddes, Barbara. 1994. Politician’s Dilemma: Building State Capacity in Latin America. University of California Press. [Chapters 1 and 2]  Mares, Isabela. 2005. “Social Protection Around the World: External Insecurity, State Capacity, and Domestic Political Cleavages.” Comparative Political Studies 38(6): 623– 51.  Bussell, Jennifer L. 2010. “Why Get Technical? Corruption and the Politics of Public Service Reform in the Indian States.” Comparative Political Studies 43(10): 1230–57.  Faguet, Jean-Paul. 2012. Decentralization and Popular Democracy: Governance from Below in Bolivia. University of Michigan Press.  Grindle, Merilee S. 2000. Audacious Reforms: Institutional Invention and Democracy in Latin America. Baltimore: Press.  Kenny, Charles. 2012. Getting Better: Why Global Development Is Succeeding--And How We Can Improve the World Even More. New York, NY: Basic Books.

Optional Related Materials:  “Social experiments to fight poverty,” Ted Talk by Esther Duflo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zvrGiPkVcs  “David Roodman on Microfinance,” Development Drums Episode 31: http://developmentdrums.org/561  “Corruption,” Development Drums Episode 20: http://developmentdrums.org/284  “Millions Saved: What Works in Global Health?,” CGD Podcast with Amanda Glassman: http://www.cgdev.org/blog/millions-saved-what-works-global-health- podcast-amanda-glassman  “Transforming Humanitarian Aid with Cash Transfers,” CGD Podcast with Degan Ali and Owen Barder: http://www.cgdev.org/blog/transforming-humanitarian-aid-cash- transfers-podcast  “Why Kids are Dropping Out of School and What Works in Education,” CGD Podcast with Karthik Muralidharan: http://www.cgdev.org/blog/why-kids-are-dropping-out- school-and-what-works-education-podcast-karthik-muralidharan

**FINAL EXAM DUE ON THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8TH**

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