Development Policy and Politics (PPD-DED)
Área
AC Economia > UC Doutoramentos
Activa nos planos curriculares
Estudos de Desenvolvimento > Estudos de Desenvolvimento > 3º Ciclo > Unidades Curriculares Obrigatórias > Development Policy and Politics
Nível
Doutoramento (D)
Tipo
Não Estruturante
Regime
Semestral
Carga Horária
Aula Teórica (T): 0.0 h/semana
Aula TeoricoPrática (TP): 26.0 h/semana
Trabalho Autónomo: 160.0 h/semestre
Créditos ECTS: 7.5
Objectivos
Development is all about politics and political strategies. There is now a general agreement that to understand development policy processes we need to understand how structures, institutions and political agents operate and interact to shape and frame developmental processes. Structures and institutions not only determine the capacity of governments to enact laws and implement policies but also mould the perceptions, preferences and actions of individuals or groups, and allocate power and political relations between contending individuals or groups in society. Yet, structures and institutions are themselves the product or outcome of (un)intended policy and political feedback or strategies by individuals or groups. In this sense, political agents become architects of structural and institutional formation, maintenance and change....
Programa
The curricular unit is divided in three modules:
The first module will offer an conceptual and methodological framework to under-stand how a political economy analysis is more suitable to explain poor or good development performance through an analytical and reflexive debate on the interplay between structures, institutions and agency;
MODULE 1: Understanding Politics in Development
Week 1: From Political Economy Analysis to Political Analysis
Week 2:Structure and Institutions
Week 3: History and Path Dependence
Week 4: Agency Behaviour and Institutional Change
MODULE 2: International Development Cooperation from the End of World War II to the present days
Week 5: Bipolar World and International Development Cooperation, 1949-1989: Between West and East and Capitalism and Socialism
Week 6: The changing paradigm in Inter-national Development Cooperation, 1989-2000: Beyond the OECD-DAC leader-ship
Week 7: From Development Assistance to Development Cooperation: New Actors, Instruments and Geographies of Poverty
Week 8: The experience of Portuguese cooperation
Week 9: Space and scales in development policies
Finally, the third module will debate a particular case study of exogenously-imposed development policy choices and their impact in conditioning governance in developing countries, i.e., the so-called Washington Consensus.
MODULE 3: Conditionalities in Devel-opment Policies
Week 10: The emergence of Washington Consensus: Stabilization and Structural Adjustment Policies
Week 11: Expanded Washington Consensus: Caring for Social Issues and Good Governance
Week 12: Post-Washington Consensus: Forgiving Debt (HIPC) and Poverty Fighting (PRSP)
Week 13: Beyond Washington Consensus? Current Issues in Development Policies
Metodologia de avaliação
Design and production of a 15-page political economy diagnosis paper associated with the individual research project of each Phd student (100%)
There is no final written exam
Bibliografia
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