Introduction to Planning & Institutional Processes in Developing Countries

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SES #	SECTION #	TOPICS
1	I	Introduction
2-3	II	Historical Advances in Developing and Developing Countries: Lessons for Planning
4-5	III	Paths Toward Reform
6-7	IV	Planning and the “Right” Technical Choice IVA: Traits of Technology as Determinant: Constraining and Facilitating IVB: The Social Construction of Technical Choices
8-11	V	How Organizations Behave (Government, Firms, NGOs) VA: Service-Delivery Organizatons and Civil Servants: Front-line Workers/Street-level Bureaucrats, Professionals
12-13	VI	What Works and What Doesn’t: Interpretations and Misinterpretations
14-15	VII	Working with Corruption
16-17	VIII	Traditional Institutions (Politics, Patronage, and Clientelism): Hinders, Helps, or Both?
18-21	IX	Implementation Experiences IXA: Inter-agency Coordination, and Redundancy IXB: Decentralization and Local Government IXC: Mediating Inherent Disagreement and Conflict (Case study led by Prof. Xavier Briggs (Harvard JFKennedy School of Government/DUSP-HCED): double session, second half optional) IXD: Decentralization and Local Government (continued)
22-25	X	Public-Private Synergy between Government and Civil Society: Business Associations, NGOs, etc. XA: Synergy XB: Special Session: “Contested High Modernism: the Politics of Development Planning in Durban, South Africa” (Professor Patrick Heller and Bongani Ngqulunga (Brown University, Sociology Department): double session, second half optional) XC: Synergy (continued) XD: What History Tells Us
26		Student Comments