This course is available on the BSc in International Social and Public Policy with Politics, BSc in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, BSc in Politics, 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 Policy with Government. This course is not available as an outside option. This course is available with permission to General Course students.
This course is available on the BSc in International Social and Public Policy with Politics, BSc in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, BSc in Politics, 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 Policy with Government. This course is not available as an outside option. This course is available with permission to General Course students.
20 hours of seminars in the LT. This course is delivered through seminars totalling a minimum of 22 hours across the Lent and Summer Terms. This year, some or all of this teaching may be delivered through a combination of online and on-campus seminars. Students on this course will have a reading week in Week 6, in line with departmental policy.
Students will be expected to produce 1 formative essay of 1,500 words in Week 7.
Golden and Fisman. 2017. Corruption: What Everyone Needs to Know. Oxford University Press.? Geddes, Barbara. 1994. Politician's dilemma: building state capacity in Latin America. University of California Press. David Gingerich. 2013. Political Institutions and Party Directed Corruption in South America. Cambridge University Press. Grindle, Merilee S. 2012. Jobs for the Boys: Patronage and the State in Comparative Perspective. Harvard University Press. Anna Grzymala-Busse. 2007. Rebuilding Leviathan: Party Competition and State Exploitation in Post-Communist Democracies. Cambridge University Press. Svensson, Jakob. 2005. Eight Questions about Corruption, Journal of Economic Prospectives.? Olken, Benjamin. Monitoring Corruption: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia, Journal of Political Economy.? Brierley, Sarah. 2019. Unprincipled Principals: Co-opted Bureaucrats and Corruption in Ghana. American Journal of Political Science.? Gulzar, Saad, and Benjamin J. Pasquale. 2017. Politicians, bureaucrats, and development: Evidence from India." American Political Science Review 111.1.
Essay (80%, 2500 words) in the ST. Class participation (10%) and memo (10%) in the LT. Students will submit a single assessed memo on the week that they are assigned to be the class discussant. This memo should be approx. 3 pages. Criteria will be given on the information that the memo should contain.