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PIA 3395
DEVELOPMENT
THEORIES
The Main Event
I. Golden Oldies:
II. Literary Map:
III. Synthesis:
Development Management
as a Field of Study
Defined
 Development Management is the process of
determining and monitoring of planning
applications, and other associated
applications in the promotion of economic
and social change. It ideally involves public,
private and non-profit collaboration.
Core Terms and Assumptions:
1. Comparative Public AdministrationStructural Functionalism in 1950s
2. Development
Administration- 1960s
Core Concepts, Two
3. Comparative Administration Group (Sponsored
by the Ford Foundation).
Names:
Milt Esman
John Montgomery
Norm Uphoff
Ferrel Heady
Fred Riggs
Bill Siffin
Core Concepts, Three
4. Special Attention: The Theories of Fred
Riggs
1.
Prismatic society
2.
Sala model
3.
Fused and diffracted
4.
Institutional development and culture
The Problem of Vietnam
Core Concepts, Four
5. Problem of ethnocentricity of modernization
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Ford Foundation and Vietnam
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“Madame Nhu and MSU”- Ramparts Magazine
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Michigan State in Vietnam (CIA Infiltration) and
Security Training in Iraq
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1975- End of the Development Management and
Growth Era
Ramparts cover of April 1966
Reference
Ralph Smuckler and Louis A. Picard, “Higher
Education, Capacity Building, and Aid: Lessons
Learned,” in Foreign Aid and Foreign Policy: Lessons
for the Next Half-Century, edited by: Louis A.
Picard; Robert Groelsema; Terry F. Buss (New York:
M.E. Sharpe, 2008).
Core Concepts, Five
6. Development Management- involves private
sector and non-profits in government
coordinated development activities
7. Development Planning vs. Development
Economics: Basis in Keynesianism (Rejected by
neo-orthodoxy)
8. Modernization Theory: Basis for Development
Management
Anti-Keynesian Debates:
Douglass C. North-Nobel Laureate
Core Concepts, Six
 9. Development Policy vs. Development Politics= Public Policy?
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 10. People Centered Development?
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a. Bottom Up
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b. Community Development
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c. Micro-enterprises and micro-credit
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d. Rapid Rural Appraisal
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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)
=Mini-Discussion: Critique: the project
Non-Profits
 Centro de Derechos
Humanos y Democracia,
Brigada 2506 (MIAMI)
Development Management Issues
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
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?
Quotes
"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
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
Exercise
Group Four: Deconstruct Question
Group Three: Identify Ten authors and write
ten one sentence summaries that can be used
in the question
Groups Two and One: Write mock comp.
questions for each quote above