Governance for Development

Module code: DEV7035-B

Module Aims       

To investigate the changing nature of the state and its relation to the market under conditions of globalization and neo-liberalization;
to analyse the role of the state in development as envisaged in different theories of development;
to examine the implications of different theoretical approaches to governance and the state for the policy process;
to investigate the implications of this for development policy in the global south.

Outline Syllabus

The new institutionalism: institutions that govern human interactions (North); rationalism and collective action; principal-agent problems.
Critiques of the new institutionalist approach. 
The shift from government to governance, the changing role of the state and the changing nature of state-market relations.
Central and local government relations and decentralization.
Global-national relations, sovereignty, conditionality and development partnerships.
Quality of governance indicators, the methodologies behind them and critiques of these. 
Principles and methods for conflict sensitivity.
Governance failures including anarchy, state-capture, and corruption.

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