(Course Outline: POLI 362) LEVEL 300 : Development Administration Second Semester, 2012/2013

FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES

DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE

UNIVERSITY OF GHANA

LEVEL 300    : Development Administration

Second Semester, 2012/2013

Lecturer: Dr. Philip Duku Osei

DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION

This course is designed to give a broad overview of critical approaches pertaining to the

management of development issues, mainly in the Third World. The aim is to help

students understand and evaluate conceptual and practical approaches to

development management. It will focus on key economic, institutional, policy and

management issues, particularly as they relate to administrative capacity building,

policy implementation and problem solving. The role of the international policy

networks and actors in development  will be highlighted, as well as the results of development efforts over the past six decades.

The course at a glance

Module 1	The development problematic in developing countries; What are the key development theories that underpin development administration?
Module 2	Paradigm shift from development administration to development management? Analysis of the controversy. Has there been a transition? What are characteristics of this transition?
Module 3	Development Management and Public Sector Capacities and Core  Capabilities for Service Delivery: Agencification
Module 4	What are the prescribed strategies for successful development administration and management? (a)  Development Planning (b) Economic Structural Adjustment; (c) Political underpinnings of administrative and institutional reform- change of direction in governance;  (d) Capacity development  and Institutional development  – the two the same?; (e) Decentralisation in the Public sector;
Module 5	Public-Private Partnerships and Tripartite Partnerships for economic development
Module 6	Governing by Contract
Module 7	Co-ordination in public policy
Module 8	Development Co-operation – Evolution, innovation and efficacy of development policies and new approaches to Country-Owned Poverty Reduction Strategies
Module 9	Round up, Reflections and Course evaluation by students and multi-faceted development

Module 1     

 

               The development problematic in developing countries; What are the key development theories                 that underpin development administration?

Chang, Ha-Joon and Grabel, Ilene (2004) Reclaiming Development: An Alternative Economic Policy Manual. London; Zed books.

Esman, Milton J. (1991) Management Dimensions of Development: Perspectives and Strategies. West Hartfield, CT, USA: Kumarian Press.

Escobar, Arturo (1995) Encountering Development: The making and unmaking of the Third World. Chap. 2.  (b) The problematisation of Poverty: tale of three worlds. 21-54. Conclusion - Imagining a Post-Development era. 212-226. Princeton, NJ: Princetin University Press.

Shuurman, Frans J. (1993) Beyond the Impasse: New directions in development theory. In Introduction to Development Theory in the 1990s. 1-41.

Leftwich, Adrian (2000) States of Development: On the primacy of politics in Development. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press. Core Text

Hoogvelt, Ankie (1997) Globalisation and the Post Colonial World: The New Political Economy of Development. Baltimore, Maryland: The Johns Hopkins University Press. Chaps 1, 2, 8 and 10.

Delapalme, Nathalie (2011) African Governance: The Importance of More and Better Data. Governance: An International Journal of Policy, Administration, and Institutions, Vol. 24, No. 1, January 2011 (pp. 1–3). Commentary.

GRINDLE, MERILEE S. (2011) Governance Reform: The New Analytics of Next Stepsgove_1540 4 Governance: An International Journal of Policy, Administration, and Institutions, Vol. 24, No. 3,

July 2011 (pp. 415–418). Commentary.5c

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Martinussen, John (1995) Society, State and Market: A Guide to Competing Theories of Development. London: Zed Books Ltd. Chapter 1, 2, 3, 11,

Module 2

Paradigm shift from development administration to development management? Analysis of the controversy. Has there been a transition? What are characteristics of this transition?

Kathleen Staudt, writing in 1991 noted that “A text that twins development management … also helps internationalize studies of public administration and politics” (Staudt 1991: 1) and she makes further assertions that “A development management focus also moves beyond politics and policy-making into organization for action, whether that occurs within or outside of government”. These two quotes represent typical perspectives on the paradigm shift.

This module therefore examines the appreciable shift from administration to development management and the implications that this has had on the role of the state in development (state activism vrs market leadership and the moderating influence of regulation).

Learning objective

To facilitate students understanding of the current theoretical debates and equip them to be able to appreciate where we are in the public administration-public management debate.

Batley, Richard (2002) The changing role of the state in development. The Companion to Development Studies, Edited by Vandana Desai and Robert B. Potter. London: Arnold. 135-138.

Turner, Mark and Hulme, David (1997) Governance, Administration and Development: making the State Work. London: Macmillan.

Dwivedi, O. P., Khator, Renu and Nef,  Jorge (2007) Managing Development in the Global Context. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Part 2, 3, and 4.

Module 3

Development Management and Public Sector Capacities and Core Capabilities: Agencification

Melian-Gonzales, A., Batista-Canino, R and Snachez-Medina, A. 2010. Identifying and assessing valuable resources and core capabilities in public organisations. In International Review of Administrative Sciences, Vol. 76, No. 1, March.

Grindle, Merilee S. (1997) Getting Good Government: Capacity Building in the Public Sectors of Developing Countries. Harvard: Harvard Institute of International Development. 1, 2, 3, 4, and 14.

Thomas, Allan (1999) What makes for Good Development Management? Development in practice, Vol. 9, Nos. 1 & 2. Pp. 9-17.

Robinson, Dorcas (1999) The Development management Task and Reform of “Public” social Services. Development in Practice, Vol. 9, Nos. 1&2. Pp. 78-87.

Talbot, C. (2004) A radical departure? Executive agencies in Jamaica. In Unbundled Government: A critical analysis of the global trend to agencies, quangos and contractualisation, edited by Christopher Pollitt and Colin Talbot. London: Routledge. Chapter 16.

Osei, P. D. (2001) Executive Agencies: Intellectual background to the Search for Appropriate Institutional Forms. Caribbean Journal of Public Sector Management, Vol. 3, No. 1. November. Pp. 73-83.

Jones, E. (2001) Executive Agency: A Manifesto Against ‘Administrivia’. Caribbean Journal Public Sector Management, Vol. 3, No. 1. November. Pp. 30-42. Other articles in this issue of the journal are equally useful.

Araujo, J. F. E. D. (2001) Improving Public Service Delivery: The Crossroads between NPM and Traditional Bureaucracy. Public Administration, Vol. 79, No. 4. Pp. 915-932.

Caribbean Centre for Development Administration (2003) The Executive Agency Model: Legal and Policy Management Issues in Jamaica. CARIFORUM/EDF Project No. RCA 008 ACP 005. www.unpan.org

Talbot, C. (2004) ‘The Agency idea: sometimes old, sometimes new, sometimes borrowed, sometimes untrue’. In Unbundled Government: A critical analysis of the global trend to agencies, quangos and contractualisation, edited by Christopher Pollitt and Colin Talbot. London: Routledge. Chapter 1.

Module 4

What are the prescribed strategies for successful development Administration and management?

What are the key prescribed strategies for achieving successful development management? (a) Development Planning (b) Economic Structural Adjustment; (c) Political underpinnings of administrative and institutional reform- change of direction in governance;  (d) Capacity development  and Institutional development  – the two the same?; (e) Decentralisation in the Public sector.

Learning objectives

To facilitate students’ appreciation of the various strategies that have been adopted in development administration, their strengths and weaknesses, and how mixes of these strategies have worked in practice.

Aucoin, Peter (2012) New Political Governance in Westminster Systems: Impartial Public Administration and Management Performance at Risk. Governance Volume 25, Issue 2,  177–199, April 2012

Kannji, Nazneen (2002) Social Funds in Africa: how effective for poverty reduction? In World Poverty: New policies to defeat an old enemy, Edited byPeter Townsend and David Gordon. Bristol, UK: The Policy Press. Chapter 8, 233-250.

Martin, Lawrence L. and Kettner, Peter M. (1996) Measuring the Performance of Human Service Programmes. Thousand Oaks, London and Delhi: Sage Publications. Sage Human Services Guide, 71.

Ayee, Joseph R. A. (2007) Trends in Public Sector Reforms. In Ghana at 50: Government, Politics and Development. 163-196.

Sandbrook, Richard (2000) Closing the Circle: Democratization and Development in Africa. Chapters 4 and 5. London: Zed Books.

Starr, Paul (2010) The Liberal State in a Digital World. Governance: An International Journal of Policy, Administration, and Institutions, Vol. 23, No. 1, January 2010 (pp. 1–6).

Willy McCourt and Martin Minogue (2001) The Internationalisation of Public Management. Cheltenham, UK and Northampton MA, USA: Edward Elgar.

Paul Mosley, Jane Harrigan and John Toye (1991) Aid and Power: The World Bank and Policy-based Lending. London: Routledge. Vol. 1. Chaps 1 and 2.

Matthew Martin (1993) Neither Phoenix nor Incarus: Negotiating Economic Reform in Ghana and Zambia, 1983-1992. In Hemmed In: Responses to Africa’s Economic Decline. Edited by Thomas Callaghy and John Ravenhill. New York: Colombia University Press.

John Toye (1991) Ghana. In Aid and Power: The World Bank and Policy-based Lending. London: Routledge. Vol. 2.

Module 5

Public-Private Partnerships and Tripartite Partnerships for economic development

Agere, Sam (2000) Promoting Good Governance: Principles, Practices and Perspectives. London: Commonwealth Secretariat. Pp. 66-83, and 100-122. These pages deal with Public-private partnership.

Linder, Stephen and Rosenau, Pauline V. (2000) Mapping the Terrain of Public Private Policy Partnership. In Public Private Policy Partnerships. Edited by Rosenau, Pauline Vaillancourt. Cambridge, MA and London: The MIT Press.

Linder, Stephen (2000) Coming to Terms with the Public-Private Partnership: A Grammar of Multiple Meanings. Pp. 19-37. In Public Private Policy Partnerships.

Fiszbein, Ariel and Lowden, P. (1999) Working together for a Change: Government,

Civic and Business Partnerships for Poverty Reduction in Latin America and the

Caribbean. Economic Development Institute. The World Bank. EDI Learning

Resources Series. Washington, D.C.

Osei, Philip D. (2002) Re-engineering Poverty Reduction: What has been the role of Partnerships? Conference on Poverty Reducing Strategies in the Caribbean". Organised by the Comparative Research on Programme on Poverty (CROP) and CLACSO, Havana, Cuba. 3-6 November, 2002.

Muller, M. (2003) Public-Private Partnerships in Water: A South African Perspective on the Global Debate. Journal of international Development, Vol. 15, no. 8. pp. 1115-1126.

Deakin, N. (2002) Public-Private Partnership: A UK Case Study. Public management Review, Vol. 4, No. 2. Pp. 149-166.

Osei, Philip D. (2004) ‘Public-Private Partnerships in Service Delivery in Developing Countries: Jamaican Examples’. In Public-Private Partnerships: Policy and Experience, Edited by Abby Ghobadian, David Gallear, Nicholas O’Reagan and Howard Viney. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 251-268.

Osei, Philip D. (2004) Tripartite Social Partnerships in Small States: Barbados and Jamaica in Comparative Perspective. In Globalization and Governance, Edited by Ann Marie Bissessar. USA: McFarland Press. 34-55.

Module 6       

Governing by Contract - Models and efficacy

Walsh, K. (1995) Public Services and Market Mechanisms: Competition, Contracting and the New Public Management. Basingstoke and London: Macmillan Press Ltd.

Government of Ghana. (2003) Public Procurement Board Act. (Act 663)

Government of Jamaica. Annual Report of the Contractor-General. Various years. See also www.ocg.gov.jm for the governance structure for contracting in Jamaica.

Schmid, H. (2003) Rethinking the policy of Contracting Out social services to NGOs: Lessons and Dilemmas. Public Management Review, Vol. 5, No. 3. Pp. 307-324.

Cooper, P. J. (2003) Governing by Contract: Challenges and Opportunities for Public Managers. Washington, DC: CQ Press. Chapters 4, 5 & 6.

Module 7       

Co-ordination in public policy

As actors, networks and partnerships have multiplied and governance has become more complex, what is the state of theorisation on co-ordination in public action? and how adequate are the tools and technologies available to the policy and public manager?

James, O. (2004) Executive Agencies and Joined-Up Government in the UK. In Unbundled Government: A critical analysis of the global trend to agencies, quangos and contractualisation, edited by Christopher Pollitt and Colin Talbot. London: Routledge. Chapter 2.

Sullivan, H. and Skelcher, C. (2002) Working across Boundaries: Collaboration in Public Services. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Pollitt, C. (2003) Joined-up Government: A Survey. Political Studies Review, Vol. 1 no. 1. Pp. 34-49.

Huxham, C. (2003) Theorising Collaboration Practice. Public Management Review, Vol. 5, No. 3. Pp. 401-424.

Guy Peters, B. (1998) Managing Horizontal Government: The politics of Co-ordination. Public Administration, Vol. 76, no. 2. Pp. 295-312.

Skelcher, C. and Lowndes (1998) The Dynamics of Multi-organisational Partnerships: An analysis of changing modes of governance. Public Administration, Vol. 76, No. 2. Pp. 313-334.

Stoker, Gerry (2003) Joined-Up Public Services: A Briefing Note for IPEG’s Public Service Cluster. Institute of Political & Economic Governance (IPEG), University of Manchester, UK. www.man.ac.uk. Accessed 2/12/2004.

Hahn, Andrew and Leavitt, Tom (2003) ‘Joined-Up Government’: Coordination and Collaboration Opportunities to Strengthen Multi-Sectoral Youth Policy Implementation in Jamaica. Brandeis University, Heller. Graduate School of Social Policy and Management, Centre for Youth and Communities.

International Labour Organisation (2003) Coordination in Crisis Response and Reconstruction. InFocus Programme on Crisis Response and Reconstruction. ILO. Geneva.

            http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---ed_mas/---eval/documents/publication/wcms_083424.pdf

Module 8

Development Co-operation – Evolution, innovation and efficacy of development policies and new approaches to Country-Owned Poverty Reduction Strategies

To facilitate students exploration of the shifts in the focus of development co-operation from OECD domination to so-called Country Ownership perspectives and critiques the emerging results. Students will be encouraged to take a multiple factor approach in examining the results using tools such as the usage of measures harmonized institutions and country share of the cost of development projects and sustainability after expiration of aid.

GENERAL REFERENCES

Todaro, M.P. 2000. Economic Development in the 3rd world. New York: Longman.

Republic of Ghana. 2009. Growth and Poverty Reduction Strategy II

Republic of Ghana. 2005. Ghana Poverty Reduction strategy I

Riggs, Fred. 1971. Frontiers of Development: From Underdevelopment to Sustainable Development. Longman: New York.

Rondinelli, D. A., and Cheema, G. 2003. “Analyzing Decentralization Policies in developing Countries: a Political-economy framework”. Development and Change 20(1):57-87.

Republic of Ghana. 2003. National Decentralization Action Plan: Towards a Sector-Wide Approach for Decentralization Implementation in Ghana, 2003-2005. Tema: Ghana Publishing Corporation.

Sandbrook, Richard (2000) Closing the Circle: Democratization and Development in Africa. Chapters 4 and 5. London: Zed Books.

Shepherd, Andrew (1998) Sustainable Rural Development. Basingstoke: Macmillan Press Ltd.

Staudt, Kathleen (1991) Managing development” State, Society and International Context. Newbury Park, California: Sage Publications. Chapter 1 and Parts 2 and 3.

Talbot, Colin (2010) Theories of Performance: Organisational and Service improvement in the Public Domain. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Townsend, Peter and Gordon, David (2002) World Poverty: New policies to defeat an old enemy. Bristol, UK: The Policy Press

UNDP (2002) Capacity Assessment and Development in a systems and strategic management context. Technical Advisory Paper No. 3. Management Development and Governance Division, Bureau for Development Policy.

Whaite, Alan (2008) States in Development: Understanding State-building. A DFID Working Paper

World Bank (2004) Making Services Work for the Poor. World Development Report. Oxford: World Bank and Oxford University Press.

World Bank. 2000. “New Directions in Developing Thinking” and “Decentralization: Rethinking Government” in Entering the 21st century: World Development Report 1999/2000. Oxford University Press: New York.

World Bank (1997) The State in a changing World. World Development Report. Oxford: World Bank and Oxford University Press.

World Bank. 2001. World Development Reports, 2000-2001: Attacking Poverty. Oxford: Oxford University Press.