Part I. Introduction
Week 1: Deprivation and plenty in the contemporary world—introduction to the politics of development (1 and 2)
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Part II. Explaining development
Week 1: Modernization and neoliberalism (1 and 2)
Week 4: Historical legacies 1—colonialism and dependency/underdevelopment (1 and 2)
Week 5: Historical legacies 2—institutions and institutionalism
Week 6: Parts I and II review
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Part III. Political development
Week 7: States, state capacity, and the origins of capable states (1 and 2)
Week 8: Developmental states and contemporary state-building (1 and 2)
Week 9: Seeing like a state—the developmental pitfalls of capable states (1 and 2)
Week 10: Neopatrimonialism and the developmental pitfalls of sociability (1 and 2)
Week 11: Political regimes and the developmental benefits of sociability (1 and 2)
Week 12: The patterns of domination—state, society, and development
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Part IV. What is to be done?
Week 13: Development interventions (1 and 2)
Week 14: Trade and migration (1 and 2)
Week 15: Review