Power Point presentations delivered at our 2012 Draper Hills Summer Fellowship Program are available below. Please credit the authors of these presentations when using the content for academic or professional use.

 

Week One: Defining Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law

 

Monday, July 23: Origins of States, Markets and Law

9:30 Dimensions of Development

Fukuyama, Dimensions of Development (1.3MB )

11:30 What is the Rule and Role of Law in Societies

Jensen, Role and Rule of Law (449.5KB )

2:00 Defining Democracy: Electoral, Liberal Democracy and the Quality of Democracy

Diamond, Liberal Democracy, Electoral Democracy, and the Quality of Democracy (1.0MB )

Tuesday, July 24: Democratic Institutions

9:00 Institutional Choices in Democracies/Electoral Systems

Diamond, Institutional Designs (25KB )

11:00 Promoting and Protecting the Integrity of Elections

1:45  The Problem of Making American Democracy Work

Wednesday, July 25: Origins and Dimensions of Development

9:00 The Emergence of Markets

Greif, The Emergence of Markets (16.2MB )

1:30 An Overview of the Children in Crisis Project

Paul Wise - An Overview of the Children in Crisis Project (19.4MB )

Thursday, July 26: Constitutionalism and the Rule of Law

9:00 What is the Role for Constitutionalism in Developed and Developing Democracies?

10:45  What is the Relationship of Law to Economic Development? Strategies to Build the Rule of Law: What Works and Why?

Jensen, Relationship of Law and Economic Development (58KB )

Jensen, Strategies to Build Rule of Law (48KB )

Friday, July 27: How do Democratic Transitions Occur?

9:00  Theories of Democratic Transition

Larry Diamond - Democratic Transition (13.6MB )

10:45 Cases of Transition vs. Consolidation

Stoner Weiss, Consolidation (1.3MB )

Presentation and Training from the International Center for Non-Violent Conflict (ICNC)

1:15 Success in Civil Resistance: The Necessity of Skills

Ackerman, Civil Resistance (1.0MB )

Peter Ackerman Presentation Video

Nonviolent conflict is a contest between nonviolent civil resisters and their (often violent) adversaries. In this contest, each side has different strategies and tactics that they can employ to try to win. Civil resistance movements wage their struggle through political, economic, and social pressure, and they have a wide variety of tactics at their disposal. A movement's adversary often tries to wage its struggle through violent means, which has a completely different dynamic and tactical repertoire. In this asymmetric contest between violent and nonviolent actors, the side that is best organized, most skillful, and most strategic, is more likely to prevail. Therefore, the skillful and strategic choices that civil resistance movements make are of critical importance to their outcome.

DuVall, Civil Resistance (4.1MB )

2:15 Challenges to Movements Using People Power

DuVall, Civil Resistance (4.1MB )

Jack DuVall Presentation Video

The modern practice of civil resistance sprang from new ideas about the underlying nature of political power that began to be framed about 170 years ago. As later developed by Gandhi and adopted by scores of movements and campaigns for rights and justice in recent decades, strategies of civil resistance have exhibited a common dynamic, propelled historic changes, and imparted certain political and social properties to their societies. The record of these strategies in liberating oppressed people, when compared to that of violent insurgency or revolt, has been remarkable – and suggests why political violence may substantially be reduced in the future.

Week Two: Governance and the Interaction between Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law

 

Monday, July 30: Democratic Efficiency: Institutions and the Provision of Public Goods

               9:00 The State

               Krasner, State Building (4.8MB )

10:45 Making Democracy Deliver: How to Get Better Public Management.

Fukuyama, Public Management (32KB )

1:15  U.S. Military and Civil Military Relations

Eikenberry, Civil Military Relations (2.0MB )

       Tuesday, July 31: Democratic Breakdowns and Failure

9:00 Why and How Democracies Fail

Diamond, Breakdown of Democracies (81KB )

11:00 How and Why Democracies Fall: The Case of Weimar Germany

Sheehan, Weimar Republic (28.4MB )

Wednesday, August 1: Food Security and The Environment

9:00 The Global Food Challenge

10:45  Climate Change Policy and Action: Supporting the Role of Local Communities

Stone, Conservation International (14.5MB )

Omidyar Visit/Landesa

Bannick, Omidyar Network Presentation (19.3MB )

Hanstad, Landesa (8.8MB )

Thursday, August 2: Liberation Technology

9:30 Overview of Liberation Technology

Stoner Weiss, Consolidation (1.3MB )

10:45  The Politics of Platforms and the Democratizing Potential of Mobile

Friday, August 3: Foreign Policy and International Economics

9:00 U.S. Democracy and Human Rights Policy under the Obama Administration

Weinstein, Obama and Foreign Policy

1:30 International Economic Institutions and Development

Hope, Approaches to Economic Development Assistance (2.5MB )

Hope, What do we need in our International Finance Institutions (56KB )

WEEK THREE: International and Domestic Efforts in Promoting Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law

 

Monday, August 6: International Assistance for Democracy, Accountability, and Development

9:00 New Technology and Human Rights Monitoring Workshop

11:00 International Movement Towards U.S. Democracy Assistance

1:45 An Innovation in Development Assistance: The Millennium Challange Corporation

Krasner, Foreign Assistance (477.3KB )

Tuesday, August 7: Economic Development

11:00 Management and Development

Bloom, Management and Development (9.0MB )

Wednesday, August 8: Social Entrepreneurship

10:45 Social Entrepreneurship: Challenging the Status Quo

Thursday, August 9: American Democracy and International Efforts at Rule of Law Promotion

9:00  American Democracy

Krasner, What's Wrong with America (840.5KB )

Diamond, How Good a Democracy is the US (4.7MB )

10:45  ROL Practicum: Strengthening the ROL in your respective countries

1:30  Perspectives on the American Judicial System

Friday, August 10:  Conclusion and Wrap Up

9:30  Reevaluating Links between Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law