Development Policy and Administration
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Course Introduction
This course explores the formulation, implementation, and evaluation of policies aimed at fostering economic, social, and institutional development, with a particular emphasis on developing countries. Students will examine the roles and challenges faced by public institutions and administrators in designing effective development strategies that address issues such as poverty reduction, governance, sustainability, and capacity building. The course integrates theoretical perspectives with real-world case studies, enabling students to analyze how political, economic, and cultural factors influence policy outcomes and the efficacy of administrative processes in achieving development objectives.
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Challenge of Third World Development The 7th Edition by Howard Handelman
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Chapter 1: Understanding Underdevelopment
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Q1) Early modernization theorists erroneously assumed that "all good things go together."
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) The HDI is a multi-variable measure of political underdevelopment.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Fernando Henrique Cardoso's version of dependency theory took into account conditions within developing countries that influenced the nature of their dependency.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) Modernization theorists stressed the importance of cultural values in explaining underdevelopment.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: The Explosion of Third World Democracy
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Q1) The actions of which group were most decisive in determining if Arab Spring revolts succeeded?
A) The universities
B) The military
C) The Muslim clergy
D) The courts
E) Student associations
Answer: B
Q2) Which of the following are characteristic of liberal democracies?
A) Liberal economic policies
B) A stress on economic equality
C) Higher taxes
D) A free press
E) Universal education
Answer: D
Q3) The International Criminal Court has charged a number of Third World leaders with crimes against humanity.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Religion and Politics
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Q1) In countries with Buddhist or Hindu majorities,
A) there are intense conflicts between church and state.
B) those religions are less involved in politics because they have a hierarchically well-organized clergy.
C) those religions are less involved in politics because they lack a hierarchically organized clergy.
D) those religions never challenge the government.
E) those religions are more involved in politics because of their holy scriptures.
Answer: C
Q2) The current Islamist government in Turkey plans to require female students to wear headscarves at school.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) The Catholic Church was a major voice for democracy during the Third Wave.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: The Politics of Cultural Pluralism and Ethnic Conflict
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Q1) Which country's bloody ethnic conflict calls into question the theory that if two ethnic groups have extensive friendships and cross-ethnic marriages they will not experience inter-ethnic violence?
A) Rwanda
B) Egypt
C) Argentina
D) South Korea
E) India
Q2) About half of the world's ethnic groups occupy their own nation-states.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What are the major arguments for and against outside intervention-by individual nations or international organizations such as the U.N.or the African Union-as a means of resolving or simply reducing ethnically based violence? Give 1-2 examples of successful foreign intervention and 1-2 of interventions that failed or made things worse.
Q4) Discuss the relationship between ethnic pluralism and democracy in Third World countries? Where have there been multi-ethnic societies that have achieved consolidated democracy and what actions and values are necessary for such success?
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Chapter 5: Women and Development
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Q1) In the Gulf States of Saudi Arabia and Qatar,women are prohibited from attending university.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Women's literacy rates are
A) much lower than men's rates in all regions of the Third World.
B) about the same as men's rates in all regions of the Third World.
C) are closest to the men's rate in Latin America and the Caribbean.
D) are closest to the men's rate in Sub-Saharan Africa.
E) have declined in the past decade due to the world economic crisis.
Q3) Describe the following methods for increasing the share of women in national parliaments and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each: reserved seats,simple legislated gender quotas for candidates,zipper-style quotas.
Q4) The gaps between male and female adult literacy rates are greatest in South Asia and the Arab world.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Compare how women's status has progressed or failed to make progress in democratic societies versus authoritarian societies.
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Chapter 6: The Politics of the Rural and Urban Poor
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Q1) Most governments in the less developed countries impose price controls on food in order to guarantee farmers a minimum price for their crops and thereby guarantee production.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Discuss the Third World's rural,class structures in terms of the various types of peasants,their major concerns,and their relationship with rural landlords.
Q3) Why are Third World peasants generally dependent on the services of outsiders?
A) Most of them need technical assistance on how to grow their crops
B) They usually want to send their children to religious schools outside of their communities
C) They are frequently barred from traveling outside their villages
D) They need people who can link them to the outside world, including the economy, the Church, the government bureaucracy, and the like
E) They generally live outside the law
Q4) Discuss the major needs of urban migrants when they make their move to the city.What affect do at least some of those needs have on the political system?
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Chapter 7: Revolutionary Change
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Q1) Classical Marx theory (i.e.,as originally laid down by Marx)argued that either the working class or the peasantry could provide the main participants in communist revolutions.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Although Che Guevara was a university-trained,white Argentinean,he managed to win the support of black peasants in Cuba and also the Indian peasants in Bolivia whom he recruited into the revolutionary cause.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which theory indicates that revolutions and rebellions often take place when an extended period of economic growth is followed by an economic downturn?
A) Tilly's theory of alternative sovereignties
B) Davies' J-curve theory
C) Skocpol's theory of decaying legitimacy
D) Nelson's theory of inverted financial trends
E) Gurr's theory of relative deprivation
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Chapter 8: Soldiers and Politics
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Q1) Because they have been successful in reducing ethnic tensions in their own ranks,the armed forces in countries such as Nigeria have a strong record of reducing ethnic tensions in the population as a whole.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Whether or not the armed forces seize power in a particular country is primarily a function of the military's internal cohesion and its own political skills.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Even when military regimes have given way to civilian rule,the armed forces often continue to wield considerable political power.
A)True
B)False
Q4) In time,military rule generally causes a decline in the cohesion of the armed forces.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What are the different goals of left-wing versus right-wing military regimes?
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Chapter 9: The Political Economy of Third World Development
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Q1) What is the meaning of "sustainable development"?
A) Economic growth that can be sustained for a long period of time
B) Development plans that are carefully planned out well into the future
C) Economic growth that does not bring a country into conflict with neighboring countries
D) Economic development that does not compromise the ability of future generations to meet their own needs
E) Economic growth that is neither too rapid nor too slow
Q2) Which of these countries challenges the widespread belief that democracies are not well suited for the early expansion of industrialization?
A) China
B) India
C) Nigeria
D) Mexico
E) Singapore
Q3) Discuss the successes and failures of Latin American statism as an economic model.
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