POLS2011 Development and Change Study Notes

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TOPIC LIST: Introduction Criticisms Historical Background Measuring Development The Intention of Development The Origins of Capitalism The World at 1500 Theoretical Perspectives on Development The US Post-War Social Sciences Newly Independent Countries The Cold War Modernisation Theory Structural Functionalism Criticisms of Modernisation Theory Dependency Theory Wallerstein and World-Systems Criticisms Neo-Liberalism The New World Development Interventions Technocracy in the Cold War Concern with Governance Capabilities Approach Democracy and Development Democracy and Semi-Democracy Democracy and the Market Democracy and Capitalism Democracy is a Recent Development Support for Democracy Authoritarian/Military Government Developmentalists The Military in the Developing World Democratic Transitions Third Wave Democratisation post 1974 State-Making, Fragile States, Security Mexico Case Study Fiji Case Study Corruption, Formality, Informality, and Urbanisation Corruption The Informal Economy Theoretical Views of the Informal Economy Informality Structures Slums and Shantytowns Food History What is Hunger? Post WW2 Myths Bangladesh Case Study Other Info El Salvador Melon Case Study Gender and Identity Women in Development Theory Women and Development Theory Gender and Development Approach Women, Environment and Development Foreign Aid Definition and History Provision of Aid Motivations for Aid Views on Aid Problems with Aid Patterns of Aid Development and the Environment Deforestation Loss in Biodiversity Environmental Politics Measuring Our Impact Case Studies