Development Management As a Field of Study

Development Studies:

Development Management as a Field of Study

I. Golden Oldies:

II. Literary Map:

III. Synthesis:

IV. Quotes:

"Administrative corruption...[is] the institutionalized abuse of public resources by civil servants."

David Gould Public administration is..."the scarcest resource...the lack of such managerial and administrative capability is the single scarcest public resource in the developing world."

Michael Todaro

"One of the major Problems encountered so far has been is with the management of the project."

James Mackie

“Development and Management is an Oxymoran.”

An Old Philosopher IV. Core Terms and Assumptions:

1. Comparative Public Administration- Structural Functionalism in 1950s

2. Development Administration- 1960s

Comparative Administration Group

Names:

Milt Esman John Montgomery Norm Uphoff Ferrel Heady Fred Riggs Bill Siffin

3. Special Attention: The Theories of Fred Riggs

1. Prismatic society 2. Sala model

3. Diffused and diffracted

4. Institutional development and culture

5. Problem of ethnocentricity of modernization

Ford Foundation and Vietnam

“Madame Nhu and MSU”- Ramparts Magazine

Michigan State in Vietnam and Security Training in Iraq

1975- End of the Development Management and Growth Era 4. Development Management- involves private sector and non-profits in government coordinated development activities

5. Development Planning vs. Development Economics: Basis in Keynesianism (Rejected by neo-orthodoxy)

6. Modernization Theory: Basis for Development Management

7. Development Policy vs. Development Politics= Public Policy?

8. People Centered Development?

a. Bottom Up

b. Community Development c. Micro-enterprises and micro-credit

d. Rapid Rural Appraisal

V. Review: Development Management Issues:

1. Development Administration vs. Development Management (people centered development?) What is the difference?

2. The flat pyramid principle

3. The critique of the bureaucratic form

4. Capacity building, NGOs and Organizational weakness (PVO experiences)

=Critique: the project 5. Hierarchy vs. Democracy- How does one reconcile?

6. Local Government and absence of personnel in LDCs

=Key: lack of fiscal and personnel devolution

7. Development Administration vs. Representative Bureaucracy

=Merit

=Representation

=Political Loyalty

8. Development Management in the 21st century: National Policy or Donor Driven V. Mock Question:

Does Development Management exist? Is it different from Development Administration? To what extent is the latter term (or both terms) an oxymoron? What is the relationship between state centric views of development and people centered development?

Deconstruct the question.