Dr. David Lorenzo lorenzo@nccu.edu.tw
2939-3091 x51305
Office: 271305
Hours: Tuesday 5-6, Wednesday 5-6, Friday
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This course addresses the concepts, tasks and problems associated with encouraging democratic reforms and institutionalizing practices which are linked with good governance. It is therefore concerned with several types of areas of scholarly inquiry and practitioner experience a) Understanding different conceptions of democracy, the problems associated with those conceptions, problems of democracy promotion and the uncertain relations with various conceptions of democracy with good governance; b) Understanding different conceptions of good governance and the problems associated with those understandings, their promotion and implementation; c) Understandings of the role of particular actors in facilitating political reforms associated with democracy and good governance, and d) Understandings of the processes of democratization, political development and the creation of good governance in terms of generalizations and (possibly) larger developments outside the control of particular actors.
The course will likewise be structured so facilitate the study of those areas of study and inquiry.
Requirements :
1.
Attendance in class
2.
Small (6-page) paper on a particular theoretical problem, due at midterm. This paper should briefly review the literature and provide your analysis of the problem.
3.
Term paper (13-15 pages) on a particular case, due at the end of the term. This paper should pose a scholarly question, review relevant literature, identify and analyze relevant data, and provide an answer (even if provisional) to the question posed.
4.
Presentation of preliminary discussion of final paper the final two weeks of the term
General paper requirements :
Typed, double-spaced, 12 point font
Consistent and correct use of any acceptable citation system
Emailed to me at lorenzodav@gmail.com
General Reading Suggestions: http://www1.aucegypt.edu/src/engendering/good_governance.html
http://peoplesgoals.org/democracy-governance/ http://pomed.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Recommended-readings.pdf

Week of February 22 : Introduction—Connections and Problems of Democracy and Good
Governance
Week of February29: Good Governance and Democracy: Definitions and Prerequisites http://www.osce.org/what/good-governance http://info.worldbank.org/governance/wgi/index.aspx#doc http://www.gdrc.org/u-gov/g-attributes.html
S.M. Lipset, “Some Social Requisites for Democracy,” Economic Development and
Political Legitimacy,”
American Political Science Review , vol. 53, no. 1 (March 1959).
Week of March 7 : Types of Democracy and Connections with Governance I
D. Held, Models of Democracy (New York: Polity, 2006.
chaps. 1 and 2 (classical and protective democracy)
Week of March 14 : Types of Democracy II
Held, Models of Democracy , chaps 3 and 4 (developmental and social democracy)
Week of March 21 : Types of Democracy III
Held, Models of Democracy , chaps. 5, 6 and 8 (competitive elitist, pluralist and participatory democracy)
Week of April 28 : Methods of Democracy Promotion
Peter Burnell, “Democracy Promotion: The Elusive Quest for Grand Strategies” available at http://www.fes.de/ipg/IPG3_2004/ARTBURNELL.PDF
Carothers, Revitalizing Democracy Assistance http://carnegieendowment.org/files/revitalizing_democracy_assistance.pdf
Week of April 4 : Problems of Democracy Promotion I
Michael McFaul, “Democracy Promotion as a World Value,” The Washington Quarterly ,
Winter 2004-5
M. Kurki, “Democracy and Conceptual Contestability: Reconsidering Conceptions of
Democracy in Democracy Promotion,” International Studies Review , 12: 362–386, (2010)
Week of April 11 : No class—midterm week
Short paper due April 22
Week of April 18 : Problems of Democracy Promotion II
Adam Przeworski: Minimalist Conception of Democracy, International Studies Review ,
12 (3): 362-386
Larry Diamond, “Defining and Developing Democracy, in Diamond,
Developing
Democracy: Towards Consolidation (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999); also in
Dahl, et al., Democracy: A Sourcebook
Week of April 25 : Debates Over Democratic Transitions
T. Carothers: The End of the Transition Paradigm (and Reply to Critics), Journal of
Democracy (vol. 13, no. 1) http://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles-files/gratis/Carothers-13-
1.pdf

Week of May 2: Good Governance: Debates
M. Doornbos “'Good Governance': The Rise and Decline of a Policy Metaphor?” The
Journal of Development Studies , 37:6, 93-108, (2001)
Mark R Thompson, “Pacific Asia after ‘Asian values’: authoritarianism, democracy, and ‘good governance,’”
Third World Quarterly , 25:6, 1079-1095, (2004)
Week of May 9 : Good Governance: Critiques
Victor AO Adetula , “ Measuring democracy and ‘good governance’ in Africa:
A critique of assumptions and methods,” in Kwandiwe Kondlo & Chinenyengozi Ejiogu (eds),
Governance in the 21st Century: Africa in Focus ( Human Sciences Research Council, HSRC,
2011)
Rob Jenkins, “Mistaking “Governance” for ‘Politics’: Foreign Aid, Democracy and the
Construction of Civil Society,” in Sudipta Kaviraj and Sunil Khilnani (eds.), Civil Society:History and Possibilities (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001
Week of May 16 : Good Governance and Development
Merilee S. Grindle, “Good Enough Governance Revisited,” Development Policy Review ,
2007, 25 (5) https://web.stanford.edu/~ldiamond/papers/CDD_lecture_05.htm
Is Democracy Good for the Poor?Author(s): Michael RossSource: American Journal of
Political Science, Vol. 50, No. 4 (Oct., 2006)
Rachel M Gisselquist, “Good governance as a concept, and why this matters for development policy,” WIDER Working Paper, No. 2012/30, (2012)
Michael McFaul, “Democracy Promotion as a World Value,” THE WASHINGTON QUARTERLY ,
WINTER 2004-05
Week of May 23 : Good Governance and Human Rights http://www.usaid.gov/democracy-human-rights-and-governance-strategy
Linda C. Reif, “Building Democratic Institutions: The Role of National Human Rights
Institutions in Good Governance and Human Rights Protection,” Harvard Human Rights Journal
13, Spr 2000
Diane K. Mauzy, “The human rights and 'Asian values' debate in Southeast Asia: Trying to clarify the key issues,” The Pacific Review , 10:2 (1997)
Week of May 30 : Paper presentations
Week of June 6: No class
Weeks of June 13 and 19 : Paper presentations