POLSC 36000 - Democracy & Development in a Globalizing World (W)

Pluralism and Diversity
P/D A
GER
3/B

The relationship between democracy and development in post-colonial countries. Questions include: What relations of causality, in either direction, have political scientists sought to establish between democracy and development? What is the impact of globalization on these relations? How can historical analysis help to illuminate these and other issues, such as why some countries have been better at promoting per capita income growth than others? What efforts have been undertaken – by individual citizens, by civic groups, by aid donors – to plug the democratic deficits that arise in the course of pursuing development under 21^st Century conditions?

prereq: ENG 12000 and any POLSC course at either the 200 or 300 level in comparative politics
4 hrs
4 cr.