PolSci 215  Comparative Politics:  Developing Nations

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Communications

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• New York Times
• BBC
• The Economist
• Financial Times
• National Public Radio - On Line
• Links to World's Press

• Bibliographic searches includes (some include full text)
• Academic Search Premier
• African Jouranals OnLine
• Bibliography of Asian Studies (comprehensive bibliography of Asia)
• Electronic Contents Online (includes First Search)
• electronic Human Relatios Area Files
• Handbook of Latin American Studies
• World News Connection (the CIA's resource covering much of the world)
• Third World Bibliography (limited bibliography)
• Country studies (book length, on line) by U.S. Library of Congress

• Resources -- Journals, Films
• Research Links in Political Science
• Research Links in Asian Studies
• Movement  for Global Justice
• Global Development Network
• Don't Make these Spelling Mistakes ( "spell checker" won't save you)

• World Bank Tables
• sorted by gnp/capita
• Alphabetical, PDF file
• Excell, sort them as you please
• IMF International Financial Statistics

• Computer simulations -- try them out, let me know your reactions
• Food Aid challenge:  Food Force    http://www.food-force.com
• Rwanda simulation: Pax Warrior  http://www.paxwarrior.com

Part 1. (Capters 1-4) Historical Legacies
    a. What's in a Name
    b. Nature of Underdevelopment
    c. Theory of Modernization
    d. Impacts of Colonialism

         Map showing degree of ethnic heterogeneity in various countries

Africa map 1913 | World Map 1948

Jared Diamond's book Guns, Germs and Steel offers explantion of why countries developed in different ways.    interviews, rebuttals, reviews
 

• Chart showing declining commodity prices
• Recent thinking on economic growth, development, and aid (Stiglitz, Easterly, others)
• World Bank home page | economic research | paper on aid
• Critique of World Bank and its approach (50 years is enough)
• World Bank's new insight: importance of  "good governance": includes these variables:
• voice and accountability
• political stabilty and absense of violence
• government effectiveness
• regulatory quality
• rule of law
• control of corruption
• Governance home page
• abstract and link to main report
• Patrick Bond home page
• Critique of agri-business approach
• GlobalExchange.org

Official Development Assistance:
        International Monetary Fund: http://www.imf.org
        World Bank: http://www.worldbank.org
        U.S. Agency for International Development: http://www.info.usaid.gov

Grass Roots developmental assistance organizations:

• Oxfam America
• Grassroots International
Environmental Limits (?)

Limit to growth-30 year update and the radical need to reduce development in rich countries:
The argument that economic development should take priority over environmental issues:

Bjorn Lomborg, The Environmentalists are Wrong
Check out books, articles, and activities of Bjorn Lomborg:  http://www.lomborg.com/

Part 3. Politics of Political Change (Chapters 10-16)

• Ch 10-11 Ideology and Participation
• Ch 12-13  Violence as Politics

• Ch 14-15  Democratic Change | (old democratization page)

• 17-18.  International Organization, Sovereignty, and Challenges

• U.S. State Department Human Rights Website
• Attaching ethical standards to third world work places

Check the journal HUMAN RIGHTS QUARTERLY (JC571.U64  Paley Stacks)
The Challenge of Darfur (2005)

Refuse to Die Study Guide

Study Guide for Final Exam

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3. Religion and Politics
4. Cultural Pluralism, Ethnic Conflict
5. Women and Development
6. Agrarian Reform
7. Urban Development
        Brazilian slums
8. Revolution
9. Soldiers and Politics
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2. State and Society

Protest activities:
Protest environmental issues, World Bank