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PIA 3090. COMPARATIVE PUBLIC MANAGEMENT AND POLICY. Comparative Public Management and Policy. International Linkages and Bureaucratic Politics: Development Management as a Field of Study. The Main Event. I. Golden Oldies: II. Literary Map: III. Synthesis:.
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PIA 3090 COMPARATIVE PUBLIC MANAGEMENT AND POLICY
Comparative Public Management and Policy International Linkages and Bureaucratic Politics: Development Management as a Field of Study
The Main Event I. Golden Oldies: II. Literary Map: III. Synthesis:
Development Management as a Field of Study • 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 • “Development and Management is an Oxymoran.” An Old Philosopher
Development Issues: A Review and Overview
Core Terms and Assumptions: 1. Development Administration- Comparative Administration Group (CAG) Names: Milt Esman: Government John Montgomery: Grassroots Norm Uphoff: Local Orgs. Ferrel Heady: Comparative Politics Fred Riggs: Intermediate Models Bill Siffin: Policy Models 2. The Problem: Ford Foundation and Vietnam
The Foundation Role • Ford • Carnegie • Rockefeller • MacArthur
Other Core Terms • Development Management • Comparative Public Administration • International Administration • Development Planning vs. Development Economics: Basis in Keynesianism • Modernization: Basis for Development Management • Development Policy vs. Development Politics= Public Policy?
An Issue: People Centered Development? a. Bottom Up b. Community Development c. Micro-enterprises, micro-loans and micro-credit d. Rapid Rural Appraisal
Mini-Discussion: What Does People Centered Development Mean?
The Theories of Fred Riggs (Special Attention) 1. Prismatic society 2. Sala model 3. Diffused and diffracted 4. Institutional development and culture 5. Problem of ethnocentricity of modernization 6. Bureaucratic Politics and the Organizational Bourgeoisie
Review: 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)
Development Management Issues (Continued) 5. Hierarchy vs. Democracy- How does one reconcile? 6. Local Government absence of personnel in LDCs =Key: lack of fiscal and personnel devolution 7. Development Administration vs. Representative Bureaucracy
Development Management Issues (Continued) 8. Development Management: National Policy or Donor Driven (Projectization of Aid) =Critique: The Project
Legacy of Affirmative Action From the “Right Side” From Society?
Final Quotes • "One of the major Problems encountered so far has been is with the management of the project." James Mackie • "Administrative corruption...[is] the institutionalized abuse of public resources by civil servants." David Gould
Mock Question Does Development Management exist? Is it different from Development Administration? To what extent is the latter term an oximoran? What is the relationship between state centric views of development and people centered development? Lets Deconstruct the question.
Deconstruction • Does Development Management exist? Why or Why Not • Is it different from Development Administration? Historical Context • To what extent is the latter term an oximoran? Why Administration Not Development? • What is the relationship between state centric views of development and people centered development? State Centric vs. People Centered Neo-Classical vs. Keynesian vs. Collectivist?