POLS 280 Class Slides

Part I. Introduction and key concepts

Class 1: Introduction

Classes 2 & 3: Development

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Part II. Explaining development

Class 4: Modernization theory

Class 5: Neoliberalism

Class 7: Geography

Class 9: Historical legacies 1–Colonialism

Class 10: Historical legacies 2–Dependency/underdevelopment theories

Class 11: Historical legacies 3–Institutions and institutionalism

Class 12: Explaining development

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Part III. Political development

Class 13: States, state capacity, and the origins of capable states

Class 14: Developmental states

Classes 15 & 16: Seeing like a state–the developmental pitfalls of capable states

Class 17: Political regimes and their developmental performance

Class 18: Neopatrimonialism

Classes 19 & 20: Patterns of domination–state, society, and development

Class 21: The politics of collective identities and its developmental effects

Class 22: Political violence, conflict, and development

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Part IV. What is to be done?

Class 23: Foreign aid, the development and humanitarian relief industry, and the efficacy of development interventions

Class 24: Trade and migration

Class 25: Review