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Exploring Development Management Theories & Challenges

Dive into the world of development management theories, from comparative public administration to modernization theory. Explore core concepts and key figures in the field like Fred Riggs, and analyze the evolution of development policies in the 21st century. Uncover the complexities of balancing hierarchy and democracy, and delve into the debate between development administration and management. Evaluate the role of non-profits in capacity building and organizational weaknesses, and question the extent to which development management differs from development administration. Join the discourse on state-centric views versus people-centered development, and ponder the quote that "development and management is an oxymoron." This comprehensive study will challenge your understanding of managing socio-economic change.

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Exploring Development Management Theories & Challenges

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  1. PIA 3395 Development Theories

  2. The Main Event I. Golden Oldies: II. Literary Map: III. Synthesis:

  3. Development Management as a Field of Study

  4. 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.

  5. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)

  6. Core Terms and Assumptions:Core Terms and Assumptions:  1. Comparative Public Administration- Structural Functionalism in 1950s  2. Development Administration- 1960s

  7. 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

  8. Core Concepts, Three 4. Special Attention: The Theories of Fred Riggs • Prismatic society • Sala model • Fused and diffracted • Institutional development and culture

  9. The Problem of Vietnam

  10. Core Concepts, Four 5. Problem of ethnocentricity of modernization • Ford Foundation and Vietnam • “Madame Nhu and MSU”- Ramparts Magazine • Michigan State in Vietnam (CIA Infiltration) and Security Training in Iraq • 1975- End of the Development Management and Growth Era

  11. Ramparts cover of April 1966

  12. 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).

  13. Ralph Smuckler Ralph H. Smuckler was a faculty member at Michigan State University from 1951 until his retirement in 1993.

  14. 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

  15. Anti-Keynesian Debates: Douglass C. North-Nobel Laureate

  16. “Bottom Up?”

  17. Core Concepts, Six • 9. Development Policy vs. Development Politics= Public Policy? • 10. People Centered Development? • a. Bottom Up • b. Community Development • c. Micro-enterprises and micro-credit • d. Rapid Rural Appraisal

  18. 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

  19. Non-Profits • Centro de Derechos Humanos y Democracia, Brigada 2506 (MIAMI)

  20. 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

  21. 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? Mock Question:

  22. 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

  23. 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

  24. Exercise: Next Week Group One: Deconstruct Question Group Two: Identify Ten authors and write ten one sentence summaries that can be used in the question Both Groups: Write mock comp. questions for each quote above

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