L4 DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION AND UNDERDEVELOPMENT

• What is the most important element when we talk about success in development administration? capacity of the leader
• What do we mean by administrative incapacity? inability to respond to needs conveyed by citizens.
• What is the term for the inability for an administrator to respond to needs expressed by the people? administrative incapacity
• What are the 2 forces that cause administrative capacity? External cause Internal cause
• What is the other name for structuralist theory? Dependency theory
• What are the two important causes of administrative incapacity? internal political system characteristic of the administrative system
• Essay: What is the paradox in administrative capacity and administrative incapacity? The paradox is this: Administrative incapacity deepens underdevelopment, but, development capacity can also retard the course of political development.
• What is the best way to deal with the paradox? The best way is to insure that political institutionsmust be sufficiently strong so that it can generatethe participation and power necessary to hold thebureaucracy accountable.
• How do we describe the history of development administration? It is a history of the effort to address the needs of Third World bureaucracies and to find ways to increase their capacity to administer development.
• What is meant by structuralist analysis? It is an analysis which says that administrativebehavior is determined by the influence of externaleconomic structure.