Dr Steffen Hertog

This course is available on the BA in Social Anthropology, BSc in History and Politics, BSc in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, BSc in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (with a Year Abroad), BSc in Politics, BSc in Politics and Data Science, BSc in Politics and Economics, BSc in Politics and History, BSc in Politics and International Relations, BSc in Politics and Philosophy and BSc in Social Anthropology. This course is not available as an outside option nor to General Course students.

This course is capped at one group.

Students must have completed Introduction to Political Science (GV101).

This course introduces students to the broad theoretical traditions in the study of political economies outside of the OECD, and provides an empirical overview of a number of concrete phenomena that shape the interplay of the politics and economics in different world regions. It will address puzzles like: Why did some developing countries grow much faster than others after WWII? Are some forms of corruption more compatible with development than others? Which impact do natural resource rents have on politics and development? Under which conditions can countries with a short history of independent statehood build efficient institutions?

GV366 will engage with broad theoretical traditions like modernization theory, dependency theory, and neo-patrimonialism, and with concrete empirical topics like state-business relations, the developmental state, corruption and clientelism, the politics of public enterprise, and the political economy of resource-rich countries.

15 hours of lectures and 10 hours of classes in the AT. 15 hours of lectures and 10 hours of classes in the WT. 1 hour of classes in the ST.

One essay of 3,500 words to be submitted in the WT.

Bardhan, Pradeep (1997). "Corruption and Development", Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 35.

Evans, Peter (1995). Embedded Autonomy: States and industrial transformation (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

Ross, Michael (2012). The Oil Curse: How Petroleum Wealth Shapes the Development of Nations (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

Schneider, Ben Ross, and Sylvia Maxfield (eds.) 1997. State-Business Relations in Developing Countries (Ithaca: Cornell University Press).

Wade, Robert (2003). Governing the Market: Economic Theory and the Role of Government in East Asian Industrialization (Princeton: Princeton University Press).

Waterbury, John (1993). Exposed to Innumerable Delusions: Public Enterprise and State Power in Egypt, India, Mexico, and Turkey (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

Exam (40%, duration: 2 hours) in the spring exam period.
Essay (40%) and class participation (20%).