PLS 341 Lecture Slides

Part I. Introduction

Week 1: Deprivation and plenty in the contemporary world—introduction to the politics of development (1 and 2)

Part II. Explaining development

Week 1: Modernization and neoliberalism (1 and 2)

Week 3: Geography (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

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

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