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1Course Overview
2-3The Ideology of Progress, Modernization, Development and PlanningRequired

Amazon logo Friedmann, John. "Two Centuries of Planning Thought: An Over-View." In Planning in the Public Domain. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1985, pp. 51-85. ISBN: 0691022682.

Mazlish, B. "The Idea of Progress." Daedalus 93 (Summer 1963): 447-461.

Amazon logo Rothschild, Emma. "Psychological Modernity in Historical Perspective." In Rethinking the Development Experience: essays provoked by the work of Albert O. Hirschman. Edited by L. Rodwin and D. Schon. Washington, DC: Brookings Institute, 1994, pp. 99-117. ISBN: 0815775512.

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Amazon logo Geertz, Clifford. "Modernities." In After the Fact: Two Countries, Four Decades, One Anthropologist. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995, pp. 136-168. ISBN: 0674008715.

Amazon logo Katznelson, I. "Social Justice, Liberalism and the City: Considerations on David Harvey, John Rawls and Karl Polanyi," "Social Justice and the Urban Experience." In The Urbanization of Injustice. Edited by Andy Merrifield and Erik Swyngedouw. New York, NY: New York University Press, 1995, pp. 45-64, 1-17. ISBN: 0814755763.

Amazon logo Marx, L. "The Idea of Technology and Postmodern Pessimism." In Technology, Pessimism, and Postmodernism. Edited by Yaron Ezrahi, Everett Mendelson, and Howard Segal. Boston, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1994, pp. 11-28. ISBN: 079232630X.

Amazon logo Polanyi, Karl. "Birth of the Liberal Creed." In The Great Transformation. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1957, pp. 135-162. ISBN: 0807056790.

Sen, Amartya. "East and West: The Reach of Reason." New York Review of Books 47, no. 12 (July 20, 2000): 33-38.

Amazon logo ———. Development as Freedom. New York, NY: Anchor Books, 2000, chapter 1. ISBN: 0385720270.

Amazon logo Teresi, Dick. Lost Discoveries: The Ancient Roots of Modern Science - From Babylonians to the Maya. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 2002, pp. 1-20. ISBN: 0684837188.
4-5Historical Awareness of the Origins of Developmental PlanningRequired

Amazon logo Sanyal, Bishwapriya. "From the Benevolent to the Evil State: History of the Rise of the Anti-Government Sentiment in Developmental Discourse." In Cooperative Autonomy: The Dialectic of State-NGO Relationship in Developing Countries. Geneva, Switzerland: International Institute for Labor Studies, 1994, pp. 3-32. ISBN: 9290145307.

Hirschman, A. "The Political Economy of Latin American Development: Seven Exercises in Retrospective." Latin American Research Review 22, no. 3 (1987): 7-36.

Ingham, B. "The Meanings of Development: Interactions Between 'New' and 'Old' Ideas." World Development 21, no. 11 (1993): 1803-1821.

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Amazon logo Agarwala, Ramgopal. Planning In Developing Countries: Lessons of Experience. World Bank Staff Working Paper No. 576, Washington, DC: World Bank, 1982. ISBN: 0821303031.

Amazon logo Alterman, Rachelle. "National Level Planning in Democratic Countries: A Comparative Perspective." In National Level Planning in Democratic Countries: an International Comparison of City and Regional Policy Making. Edited by Rachelle Alterman. Liverpool, UK: Liverpool University Press, 2001, pp. 1-42. ISBN: 0853238456.

Amazon logo Arndt, Heinz Wolfgang. Economic Development: The History of an Idea. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1987, pp. 9-48. ISBN: 0226027228.

Balbo, M. "Urban Planning and the Fragmented City of Developing Countries." Third World Planning Review 15, no. 1 (1993): 23-35.

Bardhan, P. "Symposium on Democracy and Development." Journal of Economic Perspectives 7, no. 3 (1993): 45-49.

Chenery, H. "The Evolution of Development Planning." Journal of Policy Modeling 6, no. 2 (1984): 159-174.

McNeill, D. "The Changing Practice of Urban Planning." Habitat International 7, nos. 5-6 (1983): 117-127.

Amazon logo Peattie, Lisa. Planning: Rethinking Ciudad Guayana. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1987, pp. 7-72, 111-152. ISBN: 0472080695.

Amazon logo Todaro, Michael. "Development Planning: Theory and Practice." In Economic Development in The Third World. New York, NY: Longman, 1981, pp. 429-466. ISBN: 0582295335.
6-7Anti-Planning ArgumentsRequired

Amazon logo Kolsterman, R. "Arguments for and Against Planning." In Readings in Planning Theory. Edited by Scott Campbell and Susan Fainstein. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2003, pp. 86-101. ISBN: 0631223479.

Amazon logo Arndt, Heinz Wolfgang. "Radical Counterpoint: The Left." In Economic Development: The History of an Idea. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1987, pp. 115-147. ISBN: 0226027228.

Amazon logo Berlin, Isaiah. "The Pursuit of the Ideal." In The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters on the History of Ideas. Edited by Isaiah Berlin and Henry Hardy. New York, NY: Knopf, 1991, pp. 1-21. ISBN: 0679401318.

Amazon logo Escobar, A. "Planning." In The Development Dictionary: A Guide to Knowledge and Power. Edited by Wolfgang Sachs. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Zed Books, 1992, pp. 132-145. ISBN: 1856490440.

Amazon logo Bates, Robert. Markets and States in Tropical Africa: The Political Basis of Agricultural Policies. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1981, pp. 81-95. ISBN: 0520052293.

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Amazon logo Popper, Karl R. The Open Society and Its Enemies. London, UK: Routledge, 1994, pp. 169-201. ISBN: 0415282365.

Amazon logo Bauman, Z. "Gamekeepers Turned Gardners." In Legislators and Interpreters: On Modernity, Post-Modernity and Intellectuals. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1987, pp. 51-67. ISBN: 0745601367.

Amazon logo Marglin, Stephen A., et al., eds. Dominating Knowledge. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1990, pp. 1-28. ISBN: 0198286945.

Amazon logo Zukin, S. "Cultural Strategies of Economic Development and the Hegemony Of Vision." In The Urbanization of Injustice. Edited by Andy Merrifield and Erik Swyngedouw. New York, NY: New York University Press, 1995, pp. 223-244. ISBN: 0814755763.

Amazon logo Scott, James C. "The High Modernist City: An Experiment and a Critique." In Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Conditions Have Failed. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998, pp. 103-145. ISBN: 0300070160.

Amazon logo Harvey, D. "On Planning the Ideology of Planning." In Planning Theory in the 1980s: A Search for Future Directions. Edited by R. Burchell and D. Listokin. New Brunswick, NJ: Center for Urban Policy Research, Rutgers University, 1978, pp. 213-234. ISBN: 0882850482.

Yitfachel, O. "Planning and Social Control: Exploring the Dark Side." Journal of Planning Literature 12, no. 4 (May 1998): 395-406.

Roweis, S., and A. J. Scott. "Urban Planning in Theory and Practice: A Reappraisal." Environment and Planning A 9 (1977): 1097-1119.

Amazon logo Arndt, Heinz Wolfgang. "Radical Counterpoint: The Right." In Economic Development: The History of an Idea. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1987, pp. 149-163. ISBN: 0226027228.

Amazon logo Hirschman, Albert. The Rhetoric of Reaction. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 1991, pp. 1-10, 133-148. ISBN: 067476868X.

Srinivasan, T. N. "Neo-Classical Political Economy, the State and Economic Development." Asian Development Review 3, no. 3 (1985): 38-58.

Krueger, A. "The Political Economy of the Rent-Seeking State." American Economic Review 64, no. 3 (1974): 291-303.

Amazon logo Robertson, A. F. "Structure and Process." In People and The State: An Anthropology of Planned Development. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1984, pp. 85-139. ISBN: 052131948X.

Amazon logo Farber, Mike, and Dudley Seers, eds. The Crisis in Planning. London, UK: Chatto and Windus for Sussex University Press, 1977, pp. 39-52. ISBN: 085621003X.
8Why Still Believe in Planning? The Reasons for a Hopeful ViewRequired

Amazon logo Tendler, Judith. Good Government in the Tropics. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Press, 1997, pp. 1-20. ISBN: 0801854520.

Amazon logo Chang, H. Joon. "Institutions and Economic Development: Good Governance in Historical Perspective." In Kicking Away the Ladder: Policies and Institutions for Development in Historical Perspective. London, UK: Anthem Press, 2002, pp. 61-81, 99-123. ISBN: 1843310279.

Amazon logo Sanyal, Bishwapriya. "Social Construction of Hope." In Rethinking The Development Experience. Edited by L. Rodwin and Donald Schon. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1994, pp. 131-144. ISBN: 0815775512.

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Amazon logo Brooks, Michael. "Running the Gauntlet of Planning Critics." In Planning Theory for Practitioners. Chicago, IL: American Planning Association Press, 2002, pp. 35-49. ISBN: 1884829597.

Amazon logo Hirschman, Albert. "In Defense of Possibilism." In Rival Views of Market Society. New York, NY: Viking Press, 1986, pp. 171-175. ISBN: 0670813192.

Amazon logo Borja, Jordi, and Manuel Castells. "Strategic Plans and Metropolitan Projects." In Local and Global: Management of Cities in the Information Age. London, UK: Earthscan Publications, UNCHS, 1997, pp. 151-180. ISBN: 1853834416.

Amazon logo Krumholz, Norman, and John Forester. "Possibilities." In Making Equity Planning Work: Leadership in the Public Sector. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1990, pp. 209-223. ISBN: 0877227012.

Sen, Amartya. "Public Action and the Quality of Life in Developing Countries." Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics 43, no. 4 (November 1981): 287-316.

———. "Development: Which Way Now?" Economic Journal 93, no. 372 (1983): 742-762.

Amazon logo Amsden, Alice. "A Theory of Government Intervention in Late Industrialization." In State and Market in Development: Synergy and Rivalry. Edited by Louis Putterman and Dietrich Rueschemeyer. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1992, pp. 53-84. ISBN: 1555873111.

Amazon logo Paul, Samuel. Managing Development Programs: The Lessons of Success. Boulder, CO: West View Press, 1982, pp. 227-244. ISBN: 086531411X.

Amazon logo Hirschman, Albert. "Underdevelopment, Obstacles to the Perception of Change and Leadership." In A Bias for Hope. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1971, pp. 328-341. ISBN: 0300014902.

Amazon logo Killick, Tony. "Rethinking the Role of the State." In A Reaction Too Far. London, UK: Overseas Development Institute, 1989, pp. 21-33. ISBN: 0850031206.

Toye, J. "Development Planning at the Crossroads." International Journal of Development Planning Literature 5, no. 2 (1990): 43-57.

Streeten, P. "Markets and State: Against Minimalism." World Development 21, no. 8: 1281-1298.

Amazon logo Rueschemeyer, D., and P. Evans. "The State and Economic Transformation: Towards an Analysis of the Conditions Underlying Effective Interventions." In Bringing the State Back In. Edited by P. Evans, et al. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1985, pp. 44-77. ISBN: 0521313139.
9Information Session for Case Studies Selected for Student PresentationsRequired

Amazon logo The African Capacity Building Initiative: Toward Improved Policy Analysis and Development Management: Sub-Saharan Africa. Washington, DC: World Bank, 1999. ISBN: 0821317350.

Brinkerhoff, D., and A. Goldsmith. "Promoting Sustainability and Development Institutions: A Framework for Strategy." World Development 20, no. 3 (March 1992): 369-383.

Amazon logo Sussman, G. I. "The Pilot Project and the Choice of Implementing Strategy: Community Development in India." In Politics and Policy Implementation in the Third World. Edited by Merilee Grindle. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1980, pp. 114-122. ISBN: 0691021953.

Amazon logo Uphoff, Norman. "Analyzing Options for Local Institutional Development." In Local Institutional Development: An Analytical Sourcebook with Cases. West Hartford, CT: Kumarian Press, 1985, pp. 1-19. ISBN: 0931816386.

Jain, P. S. "Managing Credit for the Rural Poor: Lessons from the Grameen Bank." World Development 24, no. 1 (January 1996): 79-89.

McGill, R. "Institutional Building for a Third World City Council: Some Lessons from Practice." International Journal of Public Sector Management 6, no. 5 (1993): 24-33.

Maddock, N. "Local Institutions and the Management of Development Projects." International Journal of Public Sector Management 5, no. 2 (1992): 4-6.

Amazon logo Pasteur, D. "Organizations." In The Management of Squatter Upgrading: A Case Study of Organization, Procedures, and Participation. Farnborough, UK: Saxon House, 1979. ISBN: 0566002663.

Amazon logo Keare, Douglas H., and Scott Parris. Evaluation of Shelter Programs for the Urban Poor. World Bank Staff Working Papers No. 547. Washington, DC: World Bank, 1982, pp. 46-65. ISBN: 0821301144.

Zanetta, C. "The Evolution of the World Bank's Urban Lending in Latin America: From Sites and Services to Municipal Reform and Beyond." Habitat International 25, no. 4 (December 2001): 513-533.
10Organizational Understanding: How Bureaucracies Work or Do Not WorkRequired

Amazon logo Asmeron, H. K., R. Hoppe and R. B. Jain. Bureaucracy and Developmental Policies in The Third World. Amsterdam, Netherlands: University de Boelelaan Press, 1992, pp. 1-34. ISBN: 9053830472.

Amazon logo Tendler, J. Good Government In the Tropics. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997, pp. 21-45. ISBN: 0801854520.

Grindle, M., and M. E. Hilderbrand. "Building Sustainable Capacity in the Public Sector: What Can Be Done?" Public Administration and Development 15 (1995): 441-463.

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Gondim, L. M. "Planning Practice Within Public Bureaucracy: A new Perspective on Roles of Planners." Journal of Planning Education and Research 7, no. 3 (1988): 163-172.

Amazon logo Wilson, J. Q. Bureaucracy: What Government Agencies Do and Why They Do It. New York, NY: Basic Books, 1989, pp. 113-175. ISBN: 0465007856.

———. "The Bureaucracy Problem." The Public Interest 6 (Winter 1967): 3-9.

Amazon logo Weber, M. "Bureaucracy." In Essays in Economic Sociology. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999, pp. 116-119. ISBN: 0691009066.

Amazon logo Bryant, C., and L. G. White. "Administrative Behavior." In Managing Development in the Third World. Boulder, CO: West View Press, 1982, pp. 81-104. ISBN: 0891589287.

Lewis, J. P. "Government and National Economic Development," "A World to Make: Development in Perspective." Daedalus 118 (Winter 1989): 69-88.

Amazon logo Leonard, D. K. "Analyzing the Organizational Requirements for Seeking the Rural Poor." In Institutions of Rural Development for the Poor. Edited by D. K. Leonard and P. R. Marshal. Berkeley, CA: Institute of International Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 1982, pp. 1-39. ISBN: 0877251495.

Jaques, E. "In Praise of Hierarchy." Harvard Business Review 68, no. 1 (January-February 1990): 127-133.

Moore, M. "Competition and Pluralism in Public Bureaucracies." Institute of Development Studies Bulletin 23, no. 4 (1992): 65-78.

Amazon logo Crozier, M. The Bureaucratic Phenomenon. Chicago, IL: Chicago University Press, 1964, chapter 6, pp. 145-174. ISBN: 0226121666.

Amazon logo McCarney, P., ed. The Changing Nature of Local Government in Developing Countries. Toronto, Canada: Center for Urban and Community Studies, University of Toronto, 1996, pp. 5-30. ISBN: 0772714061.

Amazon logo Prokopenko, J., and I. Pavlin, eds. Entrepreneurship Development in Public Enterprises. Geneva, Switzerland: International Labour Office, 1991, pp. 7-32. ISBN: 922107286X.

Chew, D. C. "Internal Adjustments and Falling Civil Service Salaries: Insights from Uganda." World Development 18, no. 7 (1990): 1003-1014.

Altshuler, A., and M. Zegans. "Innovations and Creativity: Comparisons between Public Management and Private Enterprise." The Cities 7, no. 1 (February 1990): 16-24.
11Student Presentations - Lusaka Case Study
12How Planning Decisions are Made or How Decisions HappenRequired

Amazon logo Hirschman, Albert O. "Policy Making and policy Analysis in Latin America - A Return Journey." In Essays in Trespassing: Economics to Politics and Beyond. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1981, pp. 142-166. ISBN: 0521282438.

Amazon logo Alexander, E. "After Rationality: Towards a Contingency Theory of Planning." In Explorations in Planning Theory. Edited by Seymour Mandelbaum, et al. New Brunswick, NJ: Center for Urban Policy Research, 1996, pp. 45-64. ISBN: 0882851543.

Amazon logo Grindle, M., and J. W. Thomas. "Generalizing About Developing Country Policy Environment." In Public Choices and Policy Change. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991, pp. 43-70. ISBN: 0801841569.

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Harowitz, D. L., ed. "Special Issue: Policy making in Developing Countries." Policy Sciences 22 (1989): 197-261.

Brinkerhoff, D. W., and M. D. Ingle. "Integrating Blueprint and Process: A Structural Flexibility Approach to Development Management." Public Administration and Development 4, no. 5 (1989): 487-503.

Rittel, H. W., and M. Webber. "Dilemmas in a General Theory of Planning." Policy Science 4 (1973): 155-169.

Amazon logo March, J. A Primer on Decision Making: How Decisions Happen. New York, NY: The Free Press, 1994, pp. 1-55. ISBN: 0029200350.

Christensen, K. S. "Coping With Uncertainties in Planning." Journal of the American Planning Association 51 (1985): 63-73.

Behn, R. "Management by Groping Along." Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 7, no. 4 (Fall 1985): 643-663.

Amazon logo Faludi, A., ed. "The Rational Comprehensive versus the Disjointed Incrementalist Mode of Planning." In Planning Theory. New York, NY: Pergamon Books, 1973, pp. 150-170. ISBN: 0080177417.

Allison, G., and M. Halperia. "Bureaucratic Politics: A Paradigm and Some Policy Implications." World Politics 24 (supplement): 40-79.

Goulet, D. "Three Rationalities in Development Decision Making." World Development 14, no. 2 (1986): 301-317.

Amazon logo Lindblom, C. B. "The Science of 'Muddling Through." In Readings in Planning Theory. Edited by Scott Campbell and Susan Fainstein. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1996, pp. 196-209. ISBN: 0631223479.

Amazon logo Dryzek, J. "From Science to Argument." In The Argumentative Turn in Policy Analysis and Planning. Edited by F. Fischer and J. Forester. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1993. ISBN: 0822313723.

Amazon logo Hirschman, Albert. "Convergences with Michael Crozier." In A Propensity to Self Subversion. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995, pp. 132-136. ISBN: 0674715586.
13Components of Good Practice: Getting "Things" DoneRequired

Sanyal, Bishwapriya. "Playing as Anticipating Resistance." In Planning Theory. 2005. (Forthcoming.)

Thomas, J. W., and M. S. Grindle. "After the Decision: Implementing Policy Reforms in Developing Countries." World Development 18, no. 8 (1990): 1163-1181.

Wade, R. "How to Make Street Level Bureaucrats Work Better: India and Korea." IDS Bulletin 23, no. 4 (1992): 51-55.

Amazon logo Tendler, J. "Decentralization, Participation and Other Things Local." In Good Government in the Tropics. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997, pp. 142-163. ISBN: 0801854520.

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Amazon logo Hirschman, Albert O. "The Contriving of Reform." In Journeys Toward Progress. New York, NY: Twentieth Century Fund, 1963, pp. 251-297. ISBN: 039300693X.

Amazon logo Grindle, M. S., and J. W. Thomas. "Reforming Policies in the 1980s: Changing Circumstances and Shifting Parameters." In Public Choices and Policy Change: The Political Economy of Reform in Developing Countries. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991, pp. 151-181. ISBN: 0801841569.

Amazon logo Haggard, S. "State Reform in Latin America." In Annual World Bank Conference on Development in Latin America and The Caribbean: Proceedings of a Conference held in Rio De Janeiro: The Challenges of Reform. Edited by Shahid Burki, Sebastian Edwards, and Sri-Ram Eiyer. Washington, DC: World Bank, 1995, pp. 41-60. ISBN: 0821338838.

Bates, R. "The Politics of Economics Policy Reform: A Review Article." Journal of African Economies 2, no. 3 (December 1993): 417-433.

Amazon logo Houtzager, Peter. Changing Paths: International Development and The New Politics of Inclusion. Edited by Peter Houtzager and Mick Moore. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2003, pp. 1-31. ISBN: 0472113224.

Amazon logo Ascher, W. "The Logic and Tactics of Reformism." In Scheming for the Poor: The Politics of Redistribution in Latin America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1984, pp. 212-231. ISBN: 0674790855.

Cheung, A. B. L. "Understanding Public Sector Reforms: Global Trends and Diverse Agenda." International Review of Administrative Sciences 63, no. 4 (1997): 435-458.

Amazon logo Hughes, O. E. "An Era of Change." In Public Management and Administration. Houndmills, UK: Macmillan, 1994, pp. 1-21. ISBN: 0333580168.

Amazon logo Grindle, Merilee, ed. Politics and Policy Implementation in the Third World. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1980, pp. 3-39. ISBN: 0691021953.
14Organizational Understanding: Working with Market InstitutionsRequired

Starr, P. "The Meaning of Privatization." Yale Law and Policy Review 6 (1988): 6-41.

Schneider, B. R. "Elusive Synergy: Business Government Relations and Development." Comparative Politics 31, no. 1 (1998): 101-122.

Evans, P. "Development Strategies across the Public-Private Divide." World Development 24 (1996): 1033-1037.

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Amazon logo Hirschman, Albert. "Does The Market Keep Us Out of Mischief Or Out of Happiness?" In A Propensity to Self-Subversion. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995, pp. 213-320. ISBN: 0674715586.

Bennell, P. "Privatization in Sub-Saharan Africa: Progress and Prospects During the 1990s." World Development 25, no. 11 (1997): 1785-1803.

Amazon logo Frieden, Bernard, and Lynne Sagalyn. Downtown, Inc.: How America Rebuilds Cities. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1989, pp. 107-131. ISBN: 0262560593.
15Organizational Understanding: NGOs as Development AgentsRequired

Sanyal, Bishwapriya. "The Myth of Development From Below." Mimeo. Department of Urban Studies & Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996.

Amazon logo Brown, D. "Professionalism, Participation and the Public Good: Issues of Arbitration in Development Management and the Critique of Neo-Populist Appeal." In Beyond the New Public Management: Changing Ideas and Practices in Governance. Edited by M. Minogue, et al. Cheltenham, UK: E. Elgar, 1998, pp. 132-151. ISBN: 1858989132.

Amazon logo Edwards, M. "Synthesis: Unraveling the Civil Society Puzzle." In Civil Society. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2004, pp. 72-92. ISBN: 0745631339.

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Amazon logo James, Estelle, ed. "The Non-Profit Sector in Developing Countries: The Case of Sri Lanka." In The Non-Profit Sector in International Perspective: Studies in Cooperative Culture and Policy. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1989, pp. 289-318. ISBN: 0195056299.

Fowler, A. "The Role of NGOs in Changing State-Society Relations." Development Policy Review 9, no. 1 (1991): 53-84.

Tendler, Judith. "What Ever Happened to Poverty Alleviation?" World Development 17, no. 7 (1989): 1033-1044.

Amazon logo Salomon, Lester M. "Of Market Failure, Voluntary Failure and Third-Party Government: Towards a Theory of Government-Nonprofit Relations in the Modern Welfare State." In Shifting the Debate: Public/Private Sector Relations in the Modern Welfare State. Edited by Susan A. Ostrander and Stuart Langton. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books, 1987, pp. 29-49. ISBN: 0887381855.

Grossman, A., and V. K. Rangan. "Managing Multisite Nonprofits." Non-Profit Management and Leadership 11, no. 3 (2001): 321-337.
16Organizational Understanding: Communities and Collective ActionRequired

Wade, R. "The Management of Common Property Resources: Collective Action as an Alternative to Privatization or State Regulation." Cambridge Journal of Economics 11 (1987): 95-106.

Amazon logo Ostrom, Elinor. Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1990, pp. 88-104, 207-216. ISBN: 0521405998.

Amazon logo Abers, R. "Reflections on What Makes Empowered Participatory Governance Happen." In Deepening Democracy: Institutional Innovations in Empowered Participatory Governance. Edited by Archon Fung, Erik O. Wright, and Rebecca Abers. New York, NY: Verso Press, 2003, pp. 200-207. ISBN: 1859844669.

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Amazon logo O'Rourke, D. "Community Driven Regulation: Toward an Improved Model of Environmental Regulation in Vietnam." In Livable Cities. Edited by Peter Evans. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2002, pp. 95-131. ISBN: 0520230256.

Altwood, D. W., and B. S. Baviskar. "Why Do Some Cooperatives Work, But Not Others: A Comparative Analysis of Sugar Coops in India." Economic and Political Weekly 22, no. 28 (June 27, 1987): 38-55.

Joshi, A. "Roots of Change: Front-Line Workers and Forest Policy Reform in West Bengal." PhD diss., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000, pp. 8-20.
17Information Session for Case Studies Selected for Student PresentationsRequired

Amazon logo Klitgaard, Robert. Controlling Corruption. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1988, pp. 1-50. ISBN: 0520059859.

Repetto, R. "Skimming in the Water: Rent Seeking and the Performance of the Public Investigation Systems." Research Paper No. 4, Washington, DC: World Research Institute, 1986.

Paul, S. "Accountability in Public Service: Exit, Voice, and Control." World Development 20, no. 7 (July 1992): 1047-1060.

Wade, R. "How to Make Street Level Bureaucracies Work Better: India and Korea." IDS Bulletin 23, no. 4 (1992): 51-55. University of Sussex.

Amazon logo ———. "Politics and Graft: Recruitment, Appointment, and Promotions to Public Office in Italy." In Corruption, Development and Inequality: Soft Touch and Hard Graft. Edited by Peter M. Ward. New York, NY: Routledge, 1989, pp. 73-109. ISBN: 0415019982.

Amazon logo Banfield, E. C. "Corruption as a Failure of Governmental Organization." In Ethics in Planning. Edited by Martin Wachs. New Brunswick, NJ: Center for Policy Research, 1985, pp. 143-161. ISBN: 0882851039.

Ehrenhalt, A. "The Paradox of Corrupt yet Effective Leadership." The New York Times, September 30, 2002, p. A25.

Davis, J. "Corruption in Public Service Delivery: Experience from South Asia's Water and Sanitation Sector." World Development 32, no. 1 (January 2004): 53-71(19).

Amazon logo Anechiarico, Frank, and James B. Jacobs. The Pursuit of Absolute Integrity: How Corruption Control Makes Government Ineffective. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1996, pp. 3-28, 189-208. ISBN: 0226020517.

Amazon logo Rose-Ackerman, Susan. Corruption and Government: Causes, Consequences, and Reform. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp. 39-68, 225-228. ISBN: 0521659124.
18Organizational Understanding: International InstitutionsRequired

Amazon logo Wade, R. "Greening the Bank: The Struggle over the Environment, 1970-1995." In The World Bank: Its First Half Century. Vol. 2. Perspectives. Edited by Devesh Kapur, John P. Lewis, and C. Richard. Washington, DC: The Brookings Institute, 1997, pp. 611-734. ISBN: 0815752342.

Amazon logo Rajagopal, Balakrishnan. "From Resistance to Renewal: Bretton Woods Institutions and the Emergence of the 'New' Development Agenda." In International Law from Below: Development, Social Movements, and Third World Resistance. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2003, pp. 95-134. ISBN: 0521016711.

Kardam, N. "Development Approaches and the Role of Policy Advocacy: The Case of the World Bank." World Development 21, no. 11 (November 1993): 1773-1786.

Paarlbag, P., and M. Lipton. "Changing Missions of the World Bank." World Policy Journal 8, no. 3 (Summer 1991): 475-498.

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Amazon logo Danaher, K. Fifty Years is Enough: The Case Against the World Bank and the IMF. Boston, MA: South End Press, 1993, pp. ix-13. ISBN: 0896084957.

Amazon logo Mellor, J. M., and W. A. Masters. "The Changing Role of Multinational and Bilateral Foreign Assistance." In Transitions in Development: The Role of Aid and Commercial Flows. Edited by Uma Lele and Ijaz Nabi. San Francisco, CA: ICS Press, 1991, pp. 331-363. ISBN: 1558150935.

Amazon logo Payer, Cheryl. The Debt Trap: The IMF and the Third World. Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin Books, 1974, pp. 1-21 and 215-219. ISBN: 0140218440.

Amazon logo ———. The World Bank: A Critical Analysis. New York, NY: Monthly Review Press, 1982, pp. 15-52, 344-356. ISBN: 085345602X.

Amazon logo Kahler, M. "International Financial Institutions and the Policies of Adjustment" In Fragile Coalitions: The Politics of Economic Adjustment. Edited by Joan M. Nelson. Washington, DC: Overseas Development Council, 1989, pp. 139-159. ISBN: 088738787X.

Amazon logo Feinberg, R. E. "An Open Letter to the World Bank's New President." In Between Two Worlds: The World Bank's Next Decade. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books, 1986, pp. 3-30. ISBN: 0887386652.

Childers, E. "Reinventing the United Nations System." Development Dialogue no. 1 (1994): 3-22.

Amazon logo Ayres, Robert L. Banking on the Poor: The World Bank and World Poverty. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1984, pp. 17-52, 229-255. ISBN: 0262510286.

Amazon logo Kumar, Amitava, ed. World Bank Literature. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2003. ISBN: 0816638373.

Amazon logo Brown, Michael B. Africa's Choices: After Thirty Years of the World Bank. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996, pp. 65-82. ISBN: 0813333334.

Amazon logo Mallaby, Sebastian. The World's Banker. New York, NY: The Penguin Press, 2004, pp. 232-260. ISBN: 1594200238.

Amazon logo Rosen, George. "The Ford Foundation and Economics in India: A Group of Voiced? Efforts." Chapter 4 in Western Economists and Eastern Societies: Agents of Change in South Asia, 1950-1970. Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press, 1985, pp. 91-150. ISBN: 0801831873.
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Rajagopal, Balakrishnan. "Limits of law in counter-hegemonic globalization: The Indian Supreme Court and the Narmada valley struggle." Center for the Study of Law and Governance Working Paper 04-04. New Delhi, India: Jawaharlal Nehru University, May 2004. (PDF)

Amazon logo McAuslan, P. "Tenure and the Law: The Legality of Illegality and the Illegality of Legality." In Land, Rights, and Innovation: Improving Tenure Security for the Urban Poor. Edited by Geoffrey Payne. Glasgow, UK: ITDG Publishing, 2002, pp. 23-40. ISBN: 1853395447.

Amazon logo "Introduction." In Building Institutions for Markets: World Development Report. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2002. ISBN: 0195216067.

Amazon logo Fernandes, E., and A. Varley, eds. "Law, the City and Citizenship in Developing Countries: An Introduction." In Illegal Cities: Law and Urban Change in Developing Countries. London, UK: Zed Books Ltd., 1998. ISBN: 1856495507.

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Varley, A. "Private or Public: Debating the Meaning of Tenure Legislation." International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 26, no. 3 (2002): 449-461.

Alford, William. "The More Law, the More...? Measuring Legal Reform in the People's Republic of China." Center for Research on Economic Development and Policy Reform Working Paper No. 59, Stanford, CA: Stanford University, August 2000. (PDF)

Amazon logo Ellickson, Robert C. "Order Without Laws: How Neighbors Settle Disputes." In Perspectives on Property Law. 2nd ed. Edited by Robert C. Ellickson, Carol M. Rose, and Bruce A. Ackerman. Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1995, pp. 215-225. ISBN: 0316231576.

Leaf, M. "Legal Authority in Extralegal Settings: The Case of Land Rights in Jakarta, Indonesia." Journal of Planning Education and Research (Fall 1994): 12-18.

Sanyal, B. "Social norms and Formal Rules: Three Cases from Developing Countries." Paper prepared for the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Cambridge, MA: 2004.

Amazon logo "Legal Institutions and the Rule of Law." In From Plan to Market. World Development Report 1996. Washington, DC: World Bank, 1996, pp. 87-97. ISBN: 0195211073.

Amazon logo Weber, M. "Legal Authority in a Bureaucracy." In Markets, Hierarchies and Networks: The Coordination of Social Life. Edited by Grahame Thompson, et al. London, UK: Sage Publications, 1991. ISBN: 0803985908.

Amazon logo Azevedo, S. "Law and Future of Urban Management in the Third World Metropolis." In Illegal Cities: Law and Urban Change in Developing Countries. Edited by E. Fernandes and A. Varley. London, UK: Zed Books Ltd., 1998, pp. 258-273. ISBN: 1856495507.

De Soto. The Other Path. Foreword by Mario Vargas Llosa.

Amazon logo ———. The Other Path: The Invisible Revolution in the Third World. New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1989, chapter 5. ISBN: 0060160209.
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Davis, D. "The Politics of Economic Liberalization in Mexico: Explaining the North American Free Trade Agreement." Business and the Contemporary World 5, no. 1 (Winter 1993): 144-159.

Amazon logo Grindle, M., and J. W. Thomas. "Finding Room to Maneuver." In Public Choices and Policy Change: The Political Economy of Reform in Developing Countries. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991, pp. 182-194. ISBN: 0801841569.

Amazon logo Brooks, Michael. "The Political Savvy Planner." In Planning Theory for Practitioners. Chicago, IL: American Planning Association Press, 2002, pp. 185-195. ISBN: 1884829597.

Amazon logo Davis, L. "Guidelines for Survival and Success." In Planners on Planning: Leading Planners Offer Real-Life Lessons on What Works, What Doesn't, and Why. Edited by B. W. McClendon and A. J. Catanese. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 1996, pp. 103-117. ISBN: 0787902853.

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Amazon logo Lindenberg, M., and B. Crosby. Managing Development: The Political Dimension. West Hartford, CT: Kumarian Press, 1981, pp. 3-70. ISBN: 0931816270.

Amazon logo Prezeworski, Adam. "The Political Dynamics of Economic Reform." In Democracy and the Market: Political and Economic Reforms in Eastern Europe and Latin America. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1991, pp. 136-187. ISBN: 052142335X.

Amazon logo Nelson, J. M. "How Market Reforms and Democratic Consolidation Affect Each Other." In Intricate Links: Democratization and Market Reforms in Latin America and Eastern Europe. Edited by J. M. Nelson, et al. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books, 1994, pp. 1-36. ISBN: 1560007591.

Amazon logo Evans, Peter, ed. "Political Strategies for More Livable Cities: Lessons from Six Cases of Development and Political Transition." In Livable Cities. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2002, pp. 247-268. ISBN: 0520230256.

Shirk, S. L. "Playing to the Provinces: Deng Xiaoping's Political Strategy of Economic Reform." Studies in Comparative Communism 23, no. 3/4 (Autumn/Winter 1990): 227-258.

Amazon logo Checkoway, Barry, ed. "Political Strategy for Social Planning." In Strategic Perspectives on Planning Practice. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1986, pp. 195-214. ISBN: 0669142271.

Amazon logo Altshuler, Alan. The City Planning Process: A Political Analysis. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1965, pp. 299-331. ISBN: 0801400074.

Amazon logo Fox, Jonathan. "The Sandwich Strategy: Opening From Above Meets Mobilization from Below." In The Politics of Food in Mexico: State Power and Social Mobilization. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1992, pp. 151-205. ISBN: 0801427169.

Amazon logo Krumholz, Norman, and John Forester. "To Be Professionally Effective, Be Politically Articulate." In Making Equity Planning Work: Leadership in the Public Sector. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1990, pp. 225-240. ISBN: 0877227012.

Roberts, N. C., and P. J. King. "Policy Entrepreneurs: Their Activity Structure and Function in the Policy Process." Journal of Public Administration 1, no. 2 (April 1991): 147-175.

Joshi, A., and M. Moore. "The Mobilizing Potential of Anti-Poverty Programs: Concepts and Cases." Journal of Development Studies 37, no. 1 (October 2000): 25-36.

Heller, P. "Moving the State: The Politics of Democratic Decentralization in Kerala, South Africa and Porto Alegre." Politics an
 







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