Type of Credit: Elective
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This is a doctoral level seminar that demands heavy readings and intensive in-class discussion. It will cover issues in development and politics as well as policies in responding to these issues. Concrete cases will be brought up for demonstration purpose.
能力項目說明
This course will adopt a comparative perspective to discuss the dynamics and synergy between state and society in a globalized context. It is a doctoral level seminar that aims at triggering interests in researching on related phenomena and issues. Through the introduction of theories on development and empirical cases, this class will analyze institutions, strategies, and governing models to build up a knowledge base for doctoral students to conduct germane research.
Theme One: Theoretical Foundations
Week 1 Overall Introduction
Week 2 Analytical Approach
Thelen, Kathleen, 1999. “Historical Institutionalism in Comparative Politics,” American Review of Political Science 2: 369-404.
Frey, Bruno, and Stephan Meier, 2003, “Pro-social Behavior in a Natural Setting,” Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 54: 65-88.
Levi, Margaret 1997. "A Model, A Method and a Map: Rational Choice in Comparative and Historical Analysis," in Mark Lichbach and Alan Zuckerman eds., Comparative Politics. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
Week 3 Development in the Context of Globalization
Stiglitz, Joseph E., 2003. Globalization and Its Discontents. New York, NY: W.W. Norton. pp. 23-88.
Week 4 Liberal Approach, Neoliberalism
Amsden, Alice H. 2001. The Rise of “The Rest”: Challenges to the West from Late-Industrializing Economies. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. pp. 31-121.
Fagerberg, Jan, Martin Srholec, and Mark Knell, 2007. “The Competitiveness of Nations: Why Some Countries Prosper While Others Fall Behind”, World Development 35 (10): 1595-1620.
Week 5 Rational Choice Perspective
Bates, Robert H., 1981. Markets and States in Tropical Africa: The Political Basis of Agricultural Policies. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
Meier, Stephan. 2007. “A Survey of Economic Theories and Field Evidence on Pro-Social Behavior.” In Economics and Psychology: A Promising New Cross-Disciplinary Field, eds. Bruno S. Frey, and Alois Stutzer. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, pp. 51-88. PDF
Week 6 Continental Approach: Foucault, Bourdieu
Nustad, Knut, 2001. “Development: The Devil We Know?” Third World Quarterly 2 (4): 479-489.
Peet, Richard and Elartwick Hartwick, 2009. Theories of Development: Contentions, Arguments, Alternatives. New York, NY: Guilford Press.
Assignment: Offer the topic of your term paper
Week 7 How Institutions/Policies Matters?
Acemoglu, Daron and James A. Robinson, 2012. Why Nations Fall. New York, NY: Crown.
Haber, Stephen, Armando Razo, Noel Maurer, 2004. The Politics of Property Rights: Political Instability, Credible Commitments, and Economic Growth in Mexico, 1876-1929. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
Theme Two: Dynamics and Synergetic Development
Week 8 Economic, Social, and Political Interactions
Morduch, Jonathan. 1999. “The Microfinance Promise.” Journal of Economic Literature 37: 1569-1614. PDF
Fukuyama, Francis. 2001. “Social Capital, Civil Society and Development.” Third World Quarterly 22 (1): 7-20. PDF
Week 9 Political and Social Interaction
Wang, Xu. 1999. “Mutual empowerment of state and society: Its Nature, Conditions, Mechanisms, and Limits” Comparative Politics 31 (2): 231-49. PDF
Assignment: Offer Term Paper Outline
Week 10: Just and Sustainable Development
Hopwood, Bill, Mary Mellor, Geoff O'Brien, 2005. “Sustainable Development: Mapping Different Approaches,” Sustainable Development 13 (1): 38-52.
Week 11: Elements, Factors, Routes and Modes of Development
Piketty, Thomas (Goldhammer, Arthur), 2014. Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Week 12 Civil, Economic and Political Dynamics
Putnam, Robert, 1993. Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Woolcock, Michael, 1998. “Social Capital and Economic Development: Toward a Theoretical Synthesis and Policy Framework,” Theory and Society, 27: 151-208.
Week 13 Mid-term Examination
Theme Three: Developmental Challenges and Institutions Solutions
Week 14 Challenges and Responding Strategies
Powell, Walter and Kaisar Snellman, 2004, “The Knowledge Economy,” Annual review of Sociology, 30: 199-220.
Chandler, Alfred D., and Takashi Hikino. 1997. “The Large Industrial Enterprise and the Dynamics of Modern Growth,” in Chandler et al. eds., Big Business and the Wealth of Nations. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
Week 15 Alternative Development
Pieterse, Nederveen, 1998. “My Paradigm or Yours? Alternative Development, Post-Development, Reflexive Development,” Development and Change, 29, 343-373.
Week 16-18 Mini-conference
1. Class Attendance and Active Participation (30%):
All students are required to attend each class meeting, and be ready to discuss the reading materials and major issues with others. This course will be taught in a diagnostic mode in which students’ own works will be put under examination in the class, the discussion demands a basic politeness and courtesy.
2. Two Assignments (15% each, 30% total)
3. Final Paper (40%):