1. COMPARATIVE PUBLIC MANAGEMENT AND POLICY
PIA 3090
COMPARATIVE PUBLIC MANAGEMENT AND POLICY

2. The Main Event
I. Golden Oldies:
II. Literary Map:
III. Synthesis:

3. Development Management as a Field of Study
Public administration is..."the scarcest resource...the lack of such managerial and administrative capability is the single scarcest public resource in the developing world."
Michael Todaro
“Development and Management is an Oxymoran.”
An Old Philosopher

4. Core Terms and Assumptions:
1. Development Administration-
Comparative Administration Group
Names:
Milt Esman
John Montgomery
Norm Uphoff
Ferrel Heady
Fred Riggs
Bill Siffin
Ford Foundation and Vietnam

5. Other Core Terms Development Management
Comparative Public Administration
Development Planning vs. Development Economics: Basis in Keynesianism
Modernization: Basis for Development Management
Development Policy vs. Development Politics= Public Policy?

6. 6. People Centered Development?
a. Bottom Up
b. Community Development
c. Micro-enterprises and micro-credit
d. Rapid Rural Appraisal

7. The Theories of Fred Riggs (Special Attention)
1. Prismatic society
2. Sala model
3. Diffused and diffracted
4. Institutional development and culture
5. Problem of ethnocentricity of modernization

8. Review: Development Management Issues:
1. Development Administration vs. Development Management (people centered development?) What is the difference?
2. The flat pyramid principle
3. The critique of the bureaucratic form
4. Capacity building, NGOs and Organizational weakness (PVO experiences)

9. Development Management Issues (Continued)
5. Hierarchy vs. Democracy- How does one reconcile?
6. Local Government absence of personnel in LDCs
=Key: lack of fiscal and personnel devolution
7. Development Administration vs. Representative Bureaucracy

10. Development Management Issues (Continued)
8. Development Management: National Policy or Donor Driven
(Projectization of Aid)
=Critique: The Project

11. Final Quotes
"One of the major Problems encountered so far has been is with the management of the project."
James Mackie
"Administrative corruption...[is] the institutionalized abuse of public resources by civil servants."
David Gould

12. Mock Question
Does Development Management exist? Is it different from Development Administration? To what extent is the latter term an oximoran? What is the relationship between state centric views of development and people centered development?
Deconstruct the question.