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9th Semester Syllabus for Core and Elective Course in Masters in Public Policy, St. Xavier’s College –Autonomous, Mumbai.

St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Mumbai

Department of Public Policy

Syllabus for Semester IX

Masters in Public Policy

(June 2015 onwards)

Contents: Syllabi for Courses

COURSE CODE COURSE NAME

PPCC.9.01 DEVELOPMENT AND PUBLIC POLICY

PPCC.9.02 ETHICS AND PUBLIC POLICY

PPEC.9.01 URBAN AND PUBLIC POLICY

PPEC.9.02 RURAL DEVELOPMENT

PPEC.9.03 MEDIA AND PUBLIC POLICY

CLASS: MA COURSE CODE: PPCC.9.01

TITLE: DEVELOPMENT AND PUBLIC POLICY: THEORIES AND EXPERIENCES

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

1. The course would introduce the concept of development from a heterodox

perspective while discussing the idea of development through the writings of major

thinkers, including classical and contemporary theorists.

2. The centrality of the state has been questioned and challenged by a host of ideas and

institutions. The course would take a closer look at the debates around state and

markets in the context of the emergence of “welfare state” and “developmental

state” in the post second world war period.

3. The course would present summary accounts of development experiences of

developed and currently developing nations.

Total Number of lectures: 60

UNIT I Introduction to Development 15 lectures

1.1 Concept of Development; Income versus Entitlements;

Development as Freedom

1.2 Development in a Comparative Framework; Modern Economic

Growth; Structural Transformation

1.3 Backwardness and Underdevelopment; Colonialism

UNIT II Development Models and Policy 15 lectures

2.1 Classical Political Economy: Adam Smith, David Ricardo,

Thomas Malthus and Karl Marx

2.2 Post- Second World War Development Theory and Policy

2.3 Alternative Models; Neo-Marxism; Dependency; World Systems

Theory

2.4 Contemporary Development Models

UNIT III From Welfare State to Developmental State; Washington 15 lectures

Consensus; State and Markets

3.1 State versus Markets

3.2 “Welfare” and “Developmental” State

3.3 Old and New Institutional Economics

3.4 Washington Consensus; Globalisation and Development

3.5 Inclusive Growth and Human Development

3.6 Post Development

UNIT IV Development Policies and Experiences: Selected Caste 15 lectures

Studies

4.1 Old Developed nations; Britain, Germany, France, USA

4.2 USSR and Japan

4.3

Newly Industrialised nations in East Asia (Asian Tigers) and

Latin America: South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong,

Brazil, Argentina

4.4 China and India

LIST OF RECOMMENDED REFERENCE BOOKS:

1. Todaro, M. P., & Smith, S.C. (2006). Economic Development, Boston and London: Addison

Wesley. 9th Edition.

2. Gorringe, Hugo (2013). When Development triggers caste violence. The Hindu, 8th

May. 3. Sen, Amartya (1993). The Concept of Development. In Chenery, Hollis and Srinivasan, T. N.

(eds.), Handbook of Development Economics: Volume 1, London: North-Holland, pp. 9-26. 4. Sen, Amartya (2000). Development as Freedom. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. 5. Sen, Amartya (1984).The Standard of Living. Tanner lecture, available at http://

tannerlectures.utah.edu/_documents/a-to-z/s/sen86.pdf. 6. UNDP Human Development Reports for the years 1990 & 1996, Oxford University Press. 7. Rao, J. M. (1998). Culture and Economic Development. In World Culture Report, 1998:

Culture, Creativity and Markets, Paris: UNESCO, pp. 25-48. 8. Dreze, Jean, & Sen, Amartya (2014).An Uncertain Glory: India and its Contradictions,

Penguin: New Delhi.

9. Cheney & T.N. Srinivasan (eds.) (1988).Handbook of Development Economics. Volume 1,

London: North-Holland, pp. 203-273.

10. Kuznets, S. (1971). Modern Economic Growth: Findings and reflections. Nobel Prize

acceptance speech, available at: http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/

laureates/1971/kuznets-lecture.html

11. Gerschenkron, A. (1962). Economic backwardness in historical perspective. Cambridge,

MA: Harvard University Press. 12. Baran, P. (1952). On the political economy of backwardness. Manchester School of

Economic and Social Studies, 20, pp. 66-84.

13. Bagchi, Amiya Kumar (1982). The Political Economy of Underdevelopment. Cambridge:

Cambridge University Press. 14. Rist, Gilbert (2008). The History of Development: From Western Origins to Global Faith,

London: Zed Books. 15. McMichael, Philip (2004). Development and Social Change: A Global Perspective.

California: Pine Forge Press. 16. Heilbroner, Robert (1953/2000). The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times and Ideas of

the Great Economic Thinkers. Revised 7th Edition, London: Penguin Books. 17. Bharadwaj, Krishna (1986). Classical Political Economy and Rise to Dominance of Supply

Demand Theories. New Delhi: Universities Press.

18. Preston, P. W. (1996).Development Theory: An Introduction. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers. 19. Lewis, W.A. (1954). Economic Development with Unlimited Supplies of Labour.

Manchester School, 22, pp. 39-191. 20. Lewis, W. A. (1988). The Roots of Development Theory. In H. Chenery and T.N. Srinivasan

(eds.), Handbook of Development Economics, Vol. 1, Amsterdam: North-Holland, pp. 27-37.

21. Fei, John C. H. & Ranis, Gustav (1969). Economic Development in a Historical Perspective.

The American Economic Review, 59 (2), pp. 386-400. 22. Thorbecke, Eric (2006). The Evolution of the Development Doctrine, 1950-2005. Research

paper no. 2006/155, Helsinki: UNU-WIDER. 23. Patnaik, Utsa (1982), Neo-Marxian Theories of Capitalism and Underdevelopment: Towards

a Critique.Social Scientist, 10 (11), November, pp. 3-32.

24. Sen, Amartya (1983). Development: Which Way Now?.The Economic Journal, 93 (372), pp.

745-762. 25. Frank, Andre Gunder (1967).Capitalism and underdevelopment in Latin America, London:

Monthly Review Press.

26. Wallerstein, I. (1979).The Capitalist World Economy, Cambridge University Press. 27. Skocpol, Theda (1977). Wallerstein's World Capitalist System: A Theoretical and Historical

Critique.American Journal of Sociology, 82 (5). 28. Ghosh, Jayati (1995). State Intervention in the Macroeconomy, in Prabhat Patnaik (ed.).

Macroeconomics, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp. 146-186.

29. Bhaduri, Amit & Nayyar, Deepak (1996). The Intelligent Person‟s Guide to Liberalisation.

New Delhi: Penguin. 30. Polanyi, Karl (1944, 1957:2001). The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic

Origins of Our Time. Boston: Beacon Press. 31. Corbridge, Stuart, Williams, Glyn, Srivastava, Manoj & Veron, Rene (2003). Making Social

Science Matter - I: How the Local State Works in Rural Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal.

Economic and Political Weekly, 38 (24), pp. 2377-2389. 32. Stiglitz, Joseph E. (1998). Redefining the Role of the State. Paper presented on the Tenth

Anniversary of MITI Research Center, available at http://people.ds.cam.ac.uk/mb65/library/

stiglitz-1998.pdf 33. Chopra, Deepta (2011). Policy Making in India: A Dynamic Process of Statecraft. Pacific

Affairs, 84 (1), pp. 89-107. 34. Abrams, Philip (1988). Notes on the Difficulty of Studying the State. Journal of Historical

Sociology, 1 (1), pp. 58-89. 35. Nettl, J. P. (1968). The State as a Conceptual Variable. World Politics, 20 (4), pp. 559-592. 36. Das, Raju J. (2007). Looking, but not Seeing: The State and/as Class in Rural India. Journal

of Peasant Studies, 34 (3-4), pp. 408-440. 37. Scott, James C. (1988). Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human

Condition have Failed. Yale: Yale University Press. 38. Heilbroner, Robert & Milberg,William (2008). “The Rise of the Public Sector” and “The

Golden Age of Capitalism” in The Making of Economic Society.

39. Bagchi, Amiya (2000). The Past and the Future of Developmental State. Journal of World

Systems Research, 6 (2), pp. 398-442. 40. Evans, Peter (1989). Predatory, Developmental and other Apparatuses: A Comparative

Political Economy Perspective on the Third-World State. Sociological Forum, 4 (4), pp. 561-

587. 41. Barkey, Karan & Parikh, Sunita (1991). Comparative Perspectives on the State. Annual

Review of Sociology, 17, pp. 523-549. 42. Levins, Richard (2010). Why Programs Fail, Monthly Review, March. 43. Gorringe, Hugo & Karthikeyan, D. (2014). Confronting Casteism: Apathy and the Atrocities

Act. Economic and Political Weekly, 49 (4), pp. 74-75. 44. Chang, Ha Joon (2002). Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical

Perspective, London: Anthem Press. 45. North, Douglas (1990). Institutions, Institutional Change, and Economic Performance,

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

46. Nayyar, Deepak (1998). Economic Development and Political Democracy: Interaction of

Economics and Politics in Independent India.Economic and Political Weekly, 33 (49), pp.

3121-3131. 47. Williamson, John (1990). “What Washington Means by Policy Reform”, available at http://

www.law-economics.cn/Upfiles/2010103155719.doc

48. Williamson, John (2004). “A Short History of the Washington Consensus”, Paper presented

at the conference titled, “From Washington Consensus towards a new Global Governance”,

September 24th

-25th

, Barcelona. 49. Nayyar, Deepak (2006). Globalisation, history and development: A tale of two centuries.

Cambridge Journal of Economics, 30, pp. 137–159 50. Afredo Saad-Filho and Deborah Johnston (eds.). (2005).Neo-liberalism: A Critical Reader,

Pluto Press. 51. B. Fine, C. Lapavitsas & J. Pincus (eds.). (2001).Development Policy in the Twenty-first

Century: Beyond the post-Washington Consensus. London: Routledge. 52. Saad-Filho, Alfredo (2010). Growth, Poverty and Inequality: From Washington Consensus

to Inclusive Growth. UN-DESA working paper no. 100, New York: United Nations

53. Ranis, Gustav (2006). Human Development and Economic Growth. In David Clark (ed.).

The Elgar Companion to Development Studies, Edward Elgar. 54. Sen, Amartya, (2006). “Human Development Index” in David Clark (ed.). The Elgar

Companion to Development Studies, Edward Elgar.

55. Sen, Amartya & Anand, Sudhir (2000). Human Development and Economic Sustainability.

World Development, 28 (12), pp. 2029-2049. 56. Kannan, K. P. (2011). How Inclusive is Inclusive Growth in India? Paper presented at the

International Expert Workshop on „Inclusive Growth: From Policy to Reality‟ jointly

organized by the International Development Research Centre, Canada and the Indian Institute

of Dalit Studies, New Delhi during December 12-13,2011. 57. Gill, Kaveri (2012). Promoting Inclusiveness: A Framework for assessing India‟s flagship

social welfare programmes. Social Policy Working Paper Series-2, New Delhi: IIDS and

UNICEF 58. Corrie, Bruce P. (1995). A Human Development Index for the Dalit Child in India. Social

Indicators Research, 34 (3), pp. 395-409. 59. Singh, R. K. & Ziyauddin (2009). Manual Scavenging as Social Exclusion: A Case Study.

Economic and Political Weekly, 44 (26 & 27), pp. 521-523. 60. Escobar, Arturo (1995). Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the

Third World, Princeton: Princeton University Press.

61. Pieterse, J.N. (2001). Development Theory: Deconstructions/Reconstructions, London: Sage.

ASSESSMENT:

CIA I: Assignment/Project (20%)

CIA II: Assignment/Project (20%)

ESE Pattern: Take Home Reflective Exam. (60%)

CLASS: MA COURSE CODE: PPCC.9.02

TITLE: ETHICS AND PUBLIC POLICY


1. An overview of the course will aid students in their endeavour to understand and

analyse crucial role of ethics in public policy. The cross section of ideologies and

relevant debates with regard to contemporary issues are crucial in critiquing and

solving policy problems.

2. Viewing public policy from the lens of ethics helps students to identify the problem of

value-based living, political Ethics and professional Ethics for Government and

Public Service.


UNIT I The Context and Content of Ethics 15 lectures

1.1 Promoting Integrity in Public Service

1.2 The Public Sphere – Democracy and Ethics

1.3 Codes of Conduct and Ethics

1.4 Whistleblowers and Whistle Blower Protection

1.5 Ethics in Late Modernity

UNIT II Stand Points, Ideologies and Ethics 15 lectures

2.1 Pluralism and Ethics

2.2 Power and Ethics

2.3 Majority – Minority issues: Equal opportunity and Ethics

UNIT III Moral Foundations of Politics and Ethics of Policies 15 lectures

3.1 Utilitarianism: Bentham and Mill

3.2 Marxism, Rawls and Distributive Justice

UNIT IV Debates in Ethics and Public Policy 15 lectures

4.1 State, Civil Society, Social Movements and Public Policy

4.2 Governance, Bureaucracy and Corruption

4.3 Labour and Public Policy

4.4 Multi-National Corporation, State and Governance

4.5 Media and Ethics

UNIT V Ethics and Global Issues 15 lectures

5.1 Globalization

5.2 Sustainability, Development and Displacement

5.3 Transparency and Accountability

5.4 Global Warming

5.5 Trade and WTO

UNIT VI Applied Ethics 15 lectures

6.1 Euthanasia

6.2 Capital Punishment

6.3 Treatment of Animals

6.4 Nuclear Weapons


1. Becker, Thomas (1998). Integrity in Organizations: Beyond honesty and conscientiousness.

Academy of Management Review, 23 (1),154-61. 2. Brian Martin (2003). Illusions of Whistleblower Protection, UTS Law Review, No.5, pp. 119-

130. http://www/.uow.edu.au/arts/sts/bmartin/pubs/03utslr.html.

3. Cooper, Terry L.(2004). Big questions in administrative ethics: A need for a focused,

collaborative effort. Public Administration Review, 64, No.4 4. Cooper, Terry L. (ed). (1994). Handbook of Administrative Ethics. New York: Marcel Decker. 5. DeVries, Michiel (2002). Can you afford honesty? A comparative analysis of ethos and

ethics in local government. Administration and Society, 34, No.3,309-34. 6. Gueras & Garofalo. Practical Ethics and Public Administration. 7. Gutmann& Thompson. Policy Analysis, EP 261-264

8. Johnson, Terrance & Raymond, Cos (2004-05).Police Ethics: Organizational Implications.

Public Integrity, 7:1,67-79. 9. Rawls, John (1999). Fifty Years After Hiroshima. Samual Freeman (ed.). New York:

Columbia University Press.

10. Kudrycka, Barbara (ed.). (2004). Combating Conflict of Interest in Local Government in

CEE Countries. Budapest. http://lgi.osi.hu/publications_datasheet.php?id=255

11. Kurer,Oskar (2005). Corruption: An Alternative Approach to its Definition and

Measurement. Political Studies, 53, 222-39. 12. Kurtz, Ric (2003). Organizational Culture, Decision Making and Integrity: The National

ParkService and the Exxon Valdez. Public Integrity, 5:3,305-317. 13. Lasthuizen, Karin, Huberts, Leo & Geres, Keibue (2011). How to Measure Integrity

Violation. Public Management Review, 13:3,383-408. 14. Maesschalck, Jeroen (2004).The Impact of New Public Management Reforms on Public

Servants, Ethics: Towards a Theory. Public Administration, 82:2, 456-89. 15. Martin, Brian & Rifkin,Will (2004).The Dynamics of Employee Dissent: Whistleblowers and

Organizational jiu-jitsu. Public Organization Review, 4, 221-238. 16. McDonald, Dryburg & Martinella (2009). Personal and Policy Implications of Whistle-

Blowing. The Case of Corcoran State Prison. Public Integrity, 11:2, 155- 170. 17. O‟Leary, R. (2010).Guerrilla Employees: Should Managers Nurture, Tolerate, or Terminate

Them?. Public Administration Review. January|February 2010. 18. Palidauskaite & Jolanta. (2005-06).Codes of Ethics in Transitional democracies: A

Comparative Perspective. Public Integrity, 8:1, 35-48.

19. Singer, Peter (2002). One World: The Ethics of Globalization, 2nd

Ed. Yale University Press. 20. Pope, Jeremy. TI Sourcebook. Berlin: Transparency International. 21. Saamiit, Leno (2005-06). Code of Ethics Applied in a Transitional Setting: The Case of

Estonia. Public Integrity, 8:1,49-63. 22. Singer, O.W. : Chapter 2 23. Sulziner, George (2009).Creating a Strong Disclosure-of-Wrongdoing Regime: The Role of

Public Service Integrity Officer of Canada. Public Integrity, 11:2, 171-188.

24. Thatcher, D., & Rein, M. (2004). Managing Value Conflict in Public Policy. Governance: An

International Journal of Policy, Administration, and Institutions, 17:4, 457-486.

25. Ventriss, Curtis, & Shane, Barney (2003). The Making of a Whistleblower and the

Importance of Ethical Autonomy: James F.Anderson. Public Integrity, 5:4,355-68. 26. Virtanen, Turo (2000). Changing competences of Public Managers: Tensions in

Commitment. International Journal of Public Sector Management, 14:4,33-41. 27. VonMaravic, P. (2008-09). Studying Methods, Not Ethics: Exploring the Methodological

character ofAdministrative Ethics Research. Public Integrity, 11:1, 9-33. 28. Applbaum, Arthur Isak (1999).Ethics for Adversaries: The Morality or Roles in Public and

Professional Life. 29. Betiz, CharlesR. (2011). The Idea of Human Rights.

30. Kymlica, Will (2002). Contemporary Political Philosophy: An Introduction. 2nd

ed. 31. Kymlica, Will (1991). Liberalism, Community and Culture. 32. Kymlica, Will (1995). Multicultural Citizenship: a Liberal Theory of Minority Rights. 33. Ignatieff, Michael (2001). Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry.

34. Miller, David (ed.). (2006). The Liberty Reader. 2nd

Revised Edition. 35. Mill, John Stuart (1869). On Liberty. Jonathan F.Bennett (ed.). 36. Okin, Susan Moller (1999). Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women? Joshua Cohen, Matthew

Howard, & Martha Nussbaum (eds.). 37. Rachels, James (1996). The Elements of Moral Philosophy. 38. Rawls, John (2001). Justice as Fairness: A Restatement. Cambridge: Harvard University

Press. 39. Rawls, John (1997). The Idea of Public Reason Revisited. The University of Chicago Law

Review, 64:3, 765-807.

40. Rawls, John (1998). Classical Utilitarianism. In Samuel Sheffer (ed.), Consequentialism and

its Critics, pp. 14-19.

41. Williams, Bernard (1988). Consequentialism and Integrity. In Samuel Sheffer (ed.),

Consequentialism and its Critics, pp. 20-50.

42. Shaw, William (2006). The Consequentialist Perspective. In James Dreier (ed.),

Contemporary Debates in Moral Theory, pp.20-50. 43. Swift, Adam (2006).Political Philosophy: A Beginners’ Guide for Students and Politicians,

2nd

Edition. 44. Timmons, Mark (2012). A Moral Theory Primer. In Disputed Moral Issues: A Reader,

Second Edition, pp.1-35.

ASSESSMENT:

CIA I and CIA II: SEMINAR PARTICIPATION AND READINGS

Seminars will be discussion-based, and their success will therefore depend on participants‟

contributions to the debate. Students will be asked to sign up for seminar presentations in the first

week of the course. The presenters will be expected to provide questions for the group to

consider.

i) Seminar participation : (10%)

The criteria include seminar attendance, demonstration of engagement with the

assigned readings, active and informed participation showing analytical insight.

ii) Seminar presentation: (30%)

ESE Pattern: Exam (60%)

CLASS: MA COURSE CODE: PPEC.9.01

TITLE: URBAN PLANNING POLICY


1. To bring students into direct contact with the critical urban challenges of our time.

2. To equip prospective urban planners with the perspective to balance development,

community needs and social justice, provision of critical public services, sustainability

and security.


UNIT I The Foundations of Urban Theory 15 lectures

1.1 Weber, Tonnies, Simmels

1.2 The Chicago School, Urban Ecology and Urbanism as a Way of

Life

1.3 Henry Lefebvre and David Harvey: Right to the City;

1.4 Saskia Sassen: The Global City

UNIT II Urbanization and Development 15 lectures

2.1 Urban Trends in the Developed World

2.1.1 Suburbanization

2.1.2 Inner City Decay

2.1.3 Urban Renewal

2.2 Challenges of Urbanization in the Developing World with special

reference to India

2.3 Towards the Sustainable City

UNIT III Urban Governance 15 lectures

3.1 Approaches to the Study of Urban Politics and Governance

3.2 Local Urban Governance

3.3 Case Study: Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM)

UNIT IV Current Issues in Urban Planning 15 lectures

4.1 Water and Sanitation in Urban India

4.2 Urban Transport Planning

4.3 Urban Land Use: The Challenges of Slums and Forced Evictions

4.4 Urban Reforms in India

4.4.1 JNNURM

4.4.2 SMART Cities

4.4.3 Affordable Housing


1. Ahluwali, Isher Judge (2014). „Transforming Our Cities – Post Cards of Change’. New Delhi:

Harper Collins. 2. Ahluwalia, Isher Judge et al. (ed.). (2014). Urbanisation in India; Challenges, Opportunities

and the Way Forward. Sage Publications.

3. Aijaz, Rumi (2012).Democracy and Urban Governance in India. Academic Foundation.

4. Giddens, Anthony, & Sutton. Sociology(7th

ed.). Wiley. 5. Harvey, David (2008). The Right to the City. New Left Review,53. 6. Citizens‟ Seventh Report on the State of India’s Environment, “Excreta Matters: How urban

India is soaking up water, polluting rivers and drowning in its own excreta”. 7. Gadgil, R. (2013). Review of Twelfth Plan Proposals for Urban Transport. Economic and

Political Weekly, November 30.

8. Harvey, D. (1985). The Urbanization of Capital. New York: Oxford University Press. 9. Debolina, Dibyendu Samanta (2011).Redefining the Inclusive Urban Agenda in India.

10. Kharola, P. S. (2013). Analysing the Urban Public Transport Policy Regime in India.

Economic and Political Weekly, 48.

11. Mathur, Om Prakash (2013).Finances of Municipalities: Issues before the

Fourteenth Finance Commission. Economic and Political Weekly, 48(22).

12. Nath, V. (1997). Redefining Urban Politics. Economic and Political Weekly, 32(44/45). 13. Sivaramakrishnan, K. C. (2013). Revisiting the 74th Constitutional Amendment for Better

Metropolitan Governance. Economic and Political Weekly, 48(13). 14. Mckinsey & Co (2010). India’s Urban Awakening: Building Inclusive Cities, Sustaining

Economic Growth. Available from http://www.mckinsey.com/.../Urbanization/Indias%20urban

%20awakening%20B(4). 15. Mehta, Meera (2010). A Glass Half Full? Urban Development (1990s to 2010). Economic

and Political Weekly, 45(28).

16. Parker, Simon (2004). Urban Theory and the Urban Experience; Encountering the City.

17. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. (2011). Urban Policies

and the Right to the City in India Rights, Responsibilities and Citizenship. New Delhi, India:

UNESCO House B5/29 Safdarjung Enclave New Delhi, India.

ASSESSMENT:

CIA I: Memo and Presentation on a potential Urban-Partnership on a Current Urban

Planning Issue (20%)

CIA 2: Policy Brief on a Selected City focusing on Urban Local Governance (20%)

ESE Pattern: Take Home Reflective Exam. (60%)


TITLE: RURAL DEVELOPMENT IN INDIA: ISSUES AND PERSPECTIVES


1. The aim of the course is to familiarize the students with the dynamics of political,

economic and social change in rural India. This course will also make some international

comparisons and acquaint the students with key reasons why government programmes

have not been as effective in achieving their goals and explore what can spur growth and

development in the rural sector.

2. The course will introduce students to various approaches to study agriculture and rural

transformation including Marxist, populist, neo-populist and neo-classical schools of

thought. The course will introduce the students to the problems of rural India from a

historical perspective. The course will familiarize students with various phases of

development of agriculture and rural development in post-independence period.

3. The course will provide a comprehensive account of agricultural and rural development

programmes and schemes in the country. The discussion will be contextualized within

debates on land, labour, food, credit, marketing and livelihood programmes.


UNIT I Theories and Perspectives on Rural Development 15 lectures

1.1 Political Economy, Agrarian Reforms and Rural Development

1.2 Approaches to Studying Rural Transformation: Marxist, Populist,

Neo-Populist and Neoclassical

UNIT II Agriculture and Rural Sector during Pre-Colonial and

15 lectures

Colonial Periods

2.1 The Pre-Colonial Period

2.2 The Colonial Period

2.3 The National Movement

UNIT III Agriculture and Rural Sector after Independence 15 lectures

3.1 Agrarian Economy after Independence

3.2 Agrarian and Land Reforms

3.3 Green Revolution and Class Structure of Rural India

3.4 Economic Reforms, Agriculture and Rural Society

3.5 Globalisation and Rural Society: Select International Experiences

UNIT IV Rural Development in India: Select Contemporary Issues 15 lectures

4.1 Agrarian Crisis

4.2 Land Policy

4.3 Agricultural Labour

4.4 Rural Credit Policy

4.7 Non-Farm Sector


1. Damodaran, Harish (2015). They don't go to the Field. Indian Express, 4th

November. 2. Griffin, Keith, Khan, A. R., & Ickowitz, A. (2002). Poverty and the Distribution of Land.

Journal of Agrarian Change, 2(3), pp. 279-330. 3. Borras Jr., S.M., Kay, Cristóbal & Akram-Lodhi, A. Haroon (2007). Agrarian Reform and

Rural Development: Historical Overview and Current Issues. ISS/UNDP Land, Poverty and

Public Action Policy paper no. 1, The Hague: ISS. 4. Byres, T. J. (1986). The Agrarian Question, Forms of Capitalist Agrarian Transition and the

State: An Essay with Reference to Asia. Social Scientist, 14 (11/12), pp. 3-67. 5. Schultz, Theodore (1974). Transforming Traditional Agriculture, New Haven: Yale

University Press.

6. Schultz, Theodore (1979). “The Economics of Being Poor”, Nobel Prize acceptance speech,

available at: http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/laureates/1979/

schultz-lecture.html

7. Thorner, Daniel, Basile Kerblay and R. E. F. Smith (eds.) (1966). AV Chayanov on The

Theory of Peasant Economy. Illinois: The American Economic Association. 8. Patanik, U. (1983). On the Evolution of the Class of Agricultural Labourers in India. Social

Scientist, 11 (7), pp. 3-24.

9. Habib, Irfan (1983). The Peasant in Indian History.Social Scientist, 11 (3), pp. 21-64. 10. Kosambi, D. D. (1975). An Introduction to the Study of Indian History. Mumbai: Popular

Prakashan. 11. Sharma, R. S. (1984). “How Feudal was Indian Feudalism?”, Social Scientist, Vol. 12, No.

2, pp. 16-41. 12. Habib, Irfan (1975). “Colonialization of the Indian Economy, 1757 – 1900”, Social Scientist,

Vol. 3, No. 8, pp. 23-53. 13. Thorner, Daniel & Alice Thorner (1962). Land and Labour in India, Mumbai: Asia

Publishing House. 14. Bhattacharya, Neeladri (2003). Labouring Histories: Agrarian Labour and Colonialism, NLI

Research Study Series 049 / 2003, Noida: V. V. Giri National Labour Institute. 15. Jodhka, Surinder (2002). Nation and Village: Images of Rural India in Gandhi, Nehru and

Ambedkar. Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 37, No. 32, pp. 3343-3353 16. Guru, Gopal (2011). The Idea of India:„Derivative, Desi and Beyond. Economic and

Political Weekly, 46 (37), pp. 36-42. 17. Suri, K. C. (1987). The Agrarian Question in India during the National Movement, 1885-

1947. Social Scientist, 15 (10), pp. 25-50. 18. Joshi, P. C. (1967). Pre-Independence Thinking on Agrarian Policy. Economic and Political

Weekly, 2 (8), pp. 447-456. 19. Thangaraj, M. (2014). Dr. Ambedkar on Agrarian Reforms. Paper presented at the tenth

anniversary conference of Foundation for Agrarian Studies, Kochi, January 9 to 12. 20. Dantwala, M. L. (1986). Strategy of Agricultural Development Since Independence. In

Dantwala, M. L., Indian Agricultural Development since Independence, New Delhi, pp. 1-15.

21. Jannuzi, Tomasson (1994).Post-independence Perspectives on Agrarian Reform and Rural

Development. In India’s Persistent Dilemma: The Political Economy of Agrarian Reform,

New Delhi: Orient Longman. 22. Bandyopadhyay, Rekha (1993). Land System in India: A Historical Review.Economic and

Political Weekly, 28 (52), pp. A149-A155

23. Dantwala, M. L. (1979). Agricultural Policy in India since Independence. In Shah C. H.

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ASSESSMENT:

CIA I: Assignment/Project (20%)

CIA II: Assignment/Project (20%)

ESE Pattern: Take Home reflective exam. (60%)


TITLE: MEDIA AND PUBLIC POLICY


1. To explore the extent and circumstances under which the media affects public opinion

and public policy in a democracy.

2. To identify differences among media structures of nations under differing political

ideologies and study the effects of globalization on media structures and policy

3. To study laws and regulations that affect the print and broadcast media and how laws and

policies


UNIT I Conceptualization and Evolution of Mass Media 15 lectures

1.1 Media Public Policy Link; Agenda Setting Function in Shaping

Public Opinion

1.2 Historic Press Freedoms

1.2.1 The Right to Print

1.2.2 The Right to Criticize

1.2.3 The Right to Report

1.3 Credibility: Media and Government

1.3.1 Vietnam War

1.3.2 The Watergate Scandal

UNIT II Comparative Media Systems 15 lectures

2.1 Authoritarian; Libertarian; Soviet Communist System; Social

Responsibility

2.2 Open Closed Model; Ownership Control Model

2.3 The Media Systems Paradigm; Factors that Influence the

Development of Media Systems

UNIT III Impact of Globalization on Media Structure 15 lectures

3.1 Manufacturing Consent: The Propaganda Model

3.2 Media Globalization: Understanding Media Theory

3.3 India: Political Economy of the Media

UNIT IV Media Laws and Regulations in India 15 lectures

4.1 Constitutional Provisions on the Freedom of Speech and

Expression

4.2 Public Morals and Public Policy

4.2.1 Morality

4.2.2 Obscenity and Censorship

4.2.3 Defamation

4.2.4 Right to Privacy

4.2.5 Right to Information

4.2.6 Advertising

4.2.7 Hate speech

4.3 Media Regulation in India: Evolving a New Framework


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Public Opinion. Retrieved from www.infoamerica.org/documentos_pdf/mccombs01.pdf. 9. McQuail, Denis (1994). Mass Communications Theory: An Introduction. Sage

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Introduction to Modern Communication. New York & London: Longman. 12. Reddy, G. Gopal (2006).Media and Public Policy. The Indian Journal of Political

Science, 67 (2 ), pp. 295-302.

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Microchip. New York: Harper and Row Publishers. 14. Thomas, Pradip (2010). Political Economy of Communications in India. Sage

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www.trai.gov.in/.../Documents/Recommendations%20on%20Media%20 (3) 16. Udapa, Sahana (2012). Beyond Acquiescence and Surveillance: New Directions for

Media Regulation. Economic and Political Weekly, 46 (4), January 28. 17. Williams Kevin (2003). Understanding Media Theory. UK: Hodder Arnold.

ASSESSMENT:

CIA I: Content Analysis of Newspapers/Television News Broadcasts w.r.t. Public Policy.

(20%)

CIA II: Policy Papers on Laws related to Media. (20%)

ESE Pattern: Exam (60%)