1. Development Policy and Management PIA 2501 Week Seven

2. Reminder: Development Themes Development Theory Development Planning and Management Governance, Local Government and Civil Society Human Resource Development Donors and Development

3. Three Post-September 11 Issues: 1.Governance 2.NGOs and Civil Society 3.Human Resource Development The Shift in Development Priorities

4. Theme Three Governance, Local Government and Civil Society

5. Development Themes-Authors I. Planning vs. Implementation- The Limits of Governance Jeffery Pressman Naomi Caiden Aaron Wildavsky

6. Development Themes II. Gender and Development- A Democracy issue Isabel Allende Sue Ellen Charlton Kathleen Staudt

7. Governance Themes III. Cultural Issues: Clash of Civilizations and Chaos Theories V.S. Naipaul Samuel Huntington Monte Palmer Jorge Luis Borges

8. JORGE LUIS BORGES

9. Governance

10. Governance: Focus on Local Administration and Development Myths of the Grass Roots

12. Governance and Sovereignty "[T]ransformation (and globalization) has led to a reinvention of government and what it does“ - Anonymous

13. Reinventing Government?

14. Governance: an Overview of Issues Focus of International Development: Post-2001: “Democracy and Governance” Human Rights (First Generation- Political) But not second (social) or third (economic)

16. Terms Basic Terms: 1. The Environment of Development 2. Governance-Manner in which the state is created, modified or overthrown 3. Rule of Law

17. Governance and the State 4. Sovereignty –Authority to Govern (Ostrom) 5. Presumption of “Independence” –A National Government status given by International Community and by use of International Law "States will necessarily remain central actors in development policy and development management." Milton Esman

19. Governance Issues- Continued 7. Local Government Primary unit of government that has both political leadership and bureaucratic structures

20. What Local Government Does

21. Governance Issues 8. Civil Society Associations and organizations that are beyond the clan and the family and short of the state (does not include state organs)

23. Civil Society Definition: –Networks of organizations, groups and individuals pursuing socio-economic interests "Beyond the family but short of the state” - Hegal "Human Rights, Basic Needs and the Stuff of Citizenship” - First vs. Second and Third generation

24. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

25. 9. Democracy Two Views

26. Democracy: What is it? "It is only when men learn what it means to be free, and struggle to maintain proper limits upon the exercise of authority so that no one is allowed to become master of the others that human beings have the possibility of creating mutual relationships which they may freely enter and leave as they seek mutually productive patterns of human development." - Vincent Ostrom

27. Vincent Ostrom, Tej Kumari Mahat and Elinor Ostrom

28. Democracy: What is it? “The policy makers have rational interests--to develop their countries, to improve the condition of their people, to acquire or stay in power, or to steal as much as possible.” Peter Berger, Pyramids of Sacrifice

29. Peter L. Berger Central to Peter Berger's work is the relationship between society and the individual

30. Types of Democracy: Terms Direct Democracy –Actual direct participation of a population in decision-making about laws and regulations Town hall or village model Indirect Democracy –Some form of representative democracy Pluralism –Existence of various diverse interest associations, individuals and groups within society (Focus on Tolerance)

31. New England Town Hall

32. Types of Democracy, cont. Polyarchy –Diverse interest associations of society compete with each other over policy issues (Structured Pluralism) Cooperative Movements (or Corporatism) –Diverse interest associations cooperate with each other and with organs of the state to make policy

33. Robert Dahl and Polyarchy

34. James Madison and Democracy: The Warning The problem with majorities Tyranny Factions

35. Direct Democracy vs. Representative Democracy Problem with Populism –Mob Justice Minority rights Shifting majorities Problem with Plebiscites Size and the Need for Indirect Representation

36. Governance and Sovereignty Rules of the Game politics: –Zero/sum vs. sum/sum politics "Splintering” –Break up of states--centrifugal forces Interest Group Liberalism: The goal? Civil Society as organizational –Not the individual or the mass

37. The Nature of Conflict

38. Governance and Sovereignty The need for apathy? Constitutional vs. Social stability Institutional structures: –Checks and balances –The Institutional State What is the "Institutional State?” Why is it important?

39. Ten Minute Break

40. Decentralized Governance Subsidiarity- higher units of Government should not do what can be done by lower units

41. The Principle

43. What Local Government Does: Redeux Services: local roads, sanitation, water, basic health, primary education Depend Upon: Skilled Personnel –Fiscal/budget allocation Taxes and transfers –Planning Strategic priorities –Managing Implementing

44. Local Government and the Local State Local State vs. Local Government Functional vs. Territorial Control Devolution –Urban vs. Rural –Urban linked with Rural

46. State Societal Linkages Central State - Macro Civil Society - Micro WeakStrong State-mezzo WeakStrong Mono-State…... INTERGOVERNMENTAL Systems in place. …..Local State SOFT STATE…………………………….PREDATORY STATE Local - SOFT STATE….………………LOCAL GOVERNMENT WeakStrong

47. Local Government and Development: The Goal Bottom Up Participation Planning vs. politics: myths of participation

48. The Goal Learning Process Model--“incrementalism“- theoretical alternatie Bottom up and interactive Village development committees vs. local planning officers Paternalism of the district officer vs. patronage of local level minor networks Street level bureaucrats vs. agents from center

50. The Primary Unit of Government Municipality: Lowest level with Bureaucrats English/American –Town vs. county (Rural vs. Urban) Continental European –Commune (no distinction between rural and urban)

51. Decentralization and Local Government: Models Devolution Deconcentration Delegation Privatization

52. Deconcentration Functional vs. Prefectoral Prefectoral integrated Prefectoral unintegrated

53. Control Systems Home AffairsLocal Govt. Council Labor District Labor Office Education District Ed. Office Agriculture District Ag. Office Public Works Office Functional

54. Control Systems InteriorLocal Govt.Public WorksAgricultureEducationLabor Council/Chief Prefectoral - Integrated District Office District Labor Office District Ed. Office District Ag. Office Public Works Office

55. Control Systems Local Govt. Council/ Chief Prefectoral - Unintegrated Police InteriorLabor District Labor Office Education District Ed. Office Agriculture District Ag. Office Public Works Office District Office

56. Picard, “Socialism and the Field Administrator”

57. Books of the Week for Next Week Janine Wedel, Collision and Collusion Deborah Scroggins, Emma’s War

58. Next Week’s Authors Janine Wedel and Deborah Scroggins

59. John Seitz, Michael Edwards and John Rapley

60. Discussion What Does the Reading (Thus Far) Tell Us About Development Policy and Management?  John Seitz  Michael Edwards  John Rapley

61. Jorge Luis Borge and Isabel Allende

62. “Case Studies” Isabel Allende, “Clarrisa” Jorge Luis Borges, “ The Book of Sand”

63. The Odd Couple: V.S. Naipaul and Paul Theroux

64. This Weeks Books V.S. Naipaul, A Bend in the River Paul Theroux, The Mosquito Coast

65. Discussion