Development Policy and Politics

Recommended Prerequisites

NA

Teaching Methods

Classes are based on lectures and seminars. PhD candidates are stimulated to participate actively through the preparation and presentation of their individual seminars as well as in the discussion in the classes. The conducting intellectual line underpinning the program will be stressed throughout the classes to guarantee the coordination of its different parts.

Learning Outcomes

The goal of this curricular unit is to offer PhD candidates a political economy analytical framework to reflect about international cooperation and development experiences, performances, policies and impacts.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

MODULE 1
Week 1: Structure and Institutions

Week 2: History and Path Dependence
Week 3: Agency Behaviour and Institutional Change

Week 4: From Political Economy Analysis to Political Analysis
MODULE 2
Week 5: Bipolar World and International Development Cooperation, 1949-1989
Week 6: The changing paradigm in International Development Cooperation, 1989-2000
Week 7: From Development Assistance to Development Cooperation
Week 8: The experience of Portuguese cooperation

Week 9: Space and scales in development policies
MODULE 3: Conditionalities in Deve- lopment Policies
Week 10: The emergence of Washington Consensus
Week 11: Expanded Washington Consensus
Week 12: Post-Washington Consensus

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Research work: 100.0%

Bibliography

Andrews, Matt, The Limits of Institutional Reform in Development: Changing Rules for Realistic Solutions (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013).

Brenner, N. (2001). The limits to scale? Methodological reflections on scalar structuration. Progress in human geography, 25 (4), 591-614.

Chatuverdi, Sachin, Thomas Fues and Elisabeth Sidiropoulos (eds.) (2012). Development Cooperation and Emerging Powers. London and New York: Zed Books.

Hyo-sook Kim and David M. Potter (eds.) (2012). Foreign Aid Competition in Northeast Asia. Boulder CO: Kumarian Press.

Kentikelenis, Alexander E., Thomas H. Stubbs and Lawrence P. King. 2016. IMF Conditionality and Development Policy Space, 1985-2014, Review of International Political Economy, vol. 23, n°4, pp. 543-582.

Lingebiel, Stephan (2014). Development Cooperation: Challenges of the New Aid Architecture. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.