| SES # | SECTION # | TOPICS |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | I | Introduction |
| 2-3 | II | Historical Advances in Developing and Developing Countries: Lessons for Planning |
| 4-5 | III | Paths Toward Reform |
| 6-7 | IV |
Planning and the "Right" Technical Choice IVA: Traits of Technology as Determinant: Constraining and Facilitating IVB: The Social Construction of Technical Choices |
| 8-11 | V |
How Organizations Behave (Government, Firms, NGOs) VA: Service-Delivery Organizatons and Civil Servants: Front-line Workers/Street-level Bureaucrats, Professionals |
| 12-13 | VI | What Works and What Doesn't: Interpretations and Misinterpretations |
| 14-15 | VII | Working with Corruption |
| 16-17 | VIII | Traditional Institutions (Politics, Patronage, and Clientelism): Hinders, Helps, or Both? |
| 18-21 | IX |
Implementation Experiences IXA: Inter-agency Coordination, and Redundancy IXB: Decentralization and Local Government IXC: Mediating Inherent Disagreement and Conflict (Case study led by Prof. Xavier Briggs (Harvard JFKennedy School of Government/DUSP-HCED): double session, second half optional) IXD: Decentralization and Local Government (continued) |
| 22-25 | X |
Public-Private Synergy between Government and Civil Society: Business Associations, NGOs, etc. XA: Synergy XB: Special Session: "Contested High Modernism: the Politics of Development Planning in Durban, South Africa" (Professor Patrick Heller and Bongani Ngqulunga (Brown University, Sociology Department): double session, second half optional) XC: Synergy (continued) XD: What History Tells Us |
| 26 | Student Comments |
