Development Studies:



Development Studies:

Development Management as a Field of Study

I. Golden Oldies:

II. Literary Map:

III. 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. Development Administration

Comparative Administration Group

Names:

Milt Esman

John Montgomery

Norm Uphoff

Ferrel Heady

Fred Riggs

Bill Siffin

Ford Foundation and Vietnam

2. Development Management

3. Comparative Public Administration

4. Development Planning vs. Development Economics: Basis in Keynesianism

5. Modernization: Basis for Devlopment Mananagement

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

7. People Centered Development?

a. Bottom Up

b. Community Development

c. Micro-enterprises and micro-credit

d. Rapid Rural Appraisal

V. 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

VI. 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 absence of personnel in LDCs

=Key: lack of fiscal and personnel devolution

7. Development Administration vs. Representative Bureaucracy

8. Development Management: 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 an oximoran? What is the relationship between state centric views of development and people centered development?

Deconstruct the question.

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