2024-2025 Academic Catalog

Nov 18, 2024

2024-2025 Academic Catalog

SSJ 333 - Development Mgmt in Developing Countries

In attempting to fulfill the real and perceived needs and aspirations of their people, “developing” countries have employed (through both coercion and agency) various approaches to manage development policies. Yet such development initiatives and the processes of implementing them face enumerable structural constraints, both local and global. This course engages with these concerns and introduces students to the administrative and policy contexts of development in “third world” settings. We critically examine some of the central administrative paradigms and practices that have been used to implement post-war development policies. Consequently, we explore such ideas and practices as public bureaucracy, the new public management, and good governance in developing countries. Significantly, too, the course examines major conditions that third world states encounter as they pursue post-war development aspirations, including public debt, international immigration, international free/fair trade, and crime and violence.

Formerly IDCE 333. Students who have already passed IDCE 333 cannot receive credit for SSJ 333 and should not take this course.

Anticipated Terms Offered: Bi-annually