PLCY 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Brandt Report, Scientific Realism, Smart Card
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Policy sciences to draw from all social sciences. Propaganda: ww2 initiated policy field, lasswell - policy orientation. Sets own agenda: development buzz: generated by rock stars, celebs, and ngos. Africa and other places get on political agenda: wo(cid:374)"t develop agenda itself, go(cid:448)er(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)t i(cid:374) (cid:271)otto(cid:373) (cid:271)illio(cid:374) (cid:449)o(cid:374)"t de(cid:448)elop age(cid:374)da itself, development traps Left: capitalism generates this trap: 4 poverty traps. Bad go(cid:448)"t: countries with combined population of 1 bil get caught up in these traps, as of 2006: 980 million people lived in trapped countries. 70% africa: pearson commission: took global focus on development problems. Similar to brandt commission: africa +: countries and africa that fell in trap. 58 countries fall into group: mostly small, avg life expectancy 50 years. Induction: what you see: deduction: straight to theory, structuralists: social theories must always start with theory, data (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t (cid:271)e used to de(cid:448)elop a theor(cid:455) a(cid:374)d (cid:272)o(cid:374)fir(cid:373) it, remler and van ryzin: chapter 11, causatio(cid:374) (cid:272)ausalit(cid:455, counterfactual.
