Unit 1 Questions

Please answer each of the following questions.  If you are taking this course in a group you may then meet to discuss your answers.

1. Why does violent conflict inhibit development?

2. Why do development and increase in spending on secondary schooling reduce the likelihood of conflict?

3. What is is about open and pluralistic systems of governance that stimulate development?

4. Why should parliament seek to avoid building a relationship with the media that is adversarial or too close?

5. Why are countries undergoing political transitions more likely to experience conflict?

Select Bibliography

Collier, P. and A. Hoeffler, 2001. Greed and Grievance in Civil War. Washington, DC: World Bank Paper

Collier, P, V.L. Elliot, H. Hegre, A, Hoeffler, M. Reynal-Querol, and N. Sambanis. 2003.Breaking the Conflict Trap: Civil War and Development Policy. Washington, DC: World Bank Policy Research Report, World Bank

Halperin, M, J. Siegle and M. Weinstein. 2005. The Democracy Advantage: How Democracies Promote Prosperity and Peace. New York: Routledge

Mansfield, E. and J. Snyder. 2005. Electing to Fight: Why Emerging Democracies Go to War. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press

O'Brien, M. 2005. Parliaments as Peacebuilders: The Role of Parliaments in Conflict-Affected Countries . Washington DC: WBI Working Paper 37250

Przeworski, A, M. Alvarez, J.A. Cheibub and F. Limongi. eds. 2000. Democracy and Development: Political Institutions and Well-Being in the World, 1950-1990. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Sen, A. 1999. “Democracy as a Universal Value.” Journal of Democracy 10(3)

Sen, A. 1999. Development as Freedom. New York: Oxford University Press

Stewart, F and V. Fitzgerald. 2000.  The Economic and Social Consequences of Conflict. Oxford: Oxford University Press