{"id":17928,"date":"2024-03-27T21:51:43","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T21:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/critical-policy-analysis-unintended-consequences-of-intended-actions-ethiopias-mega-project-the-building-of-the-dam\/"},"modified":"2024-03-27T21:51:43","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T21:51:43","slug":"critical-policy-analysis-unintended-consequences-of-intended-actions-ethiopias-mega-project-the-building-of-the-dam","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/critical-policy-analysis-unintended-consequences-of-intended-actions-ethiopias-mega-project-the-building-of-the-dam\/","title":{"rendered":"Critical policy analysis: unintended consequences of intended actions – ethiopia\u2019s mega project – the building of the dam."},"content":{"rendered":"

regarding the topic: Mega project in ethiopia- the dam<\/span><\/p>\n

step by step what is required: <\/span><\/div>\n
step 1 <\/span><\/div>\n
In this final assignment, you will have to study a case where \u201cthings went wrong\u201d or where an <\/span><\/span>intended<\/i>action generated an <\/span><\/span>unintended<\/i> <\/span>consequence. This may be the case of a misguided public policy, law or regulation; a decision made to improve something that made it worse or created another problem; or a well-intended but disastrous leadership choice. The topic should reflect the concerns of \u2018development\u2019, broadly understood. (topic is picked and given above)<\/span>
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step 2: <\/span><\/span>A. Provide an appropriate introduction of the event you have chosen. Your introduction<\/span> <\/span>must<\/i> <\/span>specify what your overarching argument is on the subject and how you will develop your argument in the paper. This should take the basic form of \u2018I argue X about \u2026. I argue this by exploring \u2026 A, B, C (your main sections of the paper).<\/span><\/div>\n

B. Your first main section should <\/span>describe<\/i> <\/span>in necessary detail what the event is about.<\/p>\n

\u2022           What is the event and what are the details of the problem being addressed? <\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022           Who are the people involved in making decisions? <\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022           What is the decision-making process(es)?<\/p>\n

\u2022           What is the context of the organization, group, individual, etc. around the event and the decisions being made?<\/p>\n

C. Your second main section should provide a critical <\/span>analysis<\/i> <\/span>of the event\u2019s failure, which <\/span>must<\/i> <\/span>include the following:<\/p>\n

\u2022           What made the decision or policy fail and <\/span>why<\/i>? Put otherwise, in retrospect, what went wrong with the planning and decision process? <\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022           What were its unintended consequences and <\/span>why<\/i>?<\/p>\n


step 3:<\/p>\n

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D. Your third main section must discuss how the failure or unintended consequences might have been prevented, which <\/span>must<\/i> <\/span>include some consideration of the following:
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\u2022           How might the actors involved prevented or anticipated the failure or unintended consequence? <\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022           What social, political, or economic structures might need to be changed to enable the event to be successful?<\/p>\n

E. Wrap up your paper with a brief conclusion that summarises your key points.<\/p>\n

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STEP 3 IS ESSENTIAL AS WELL AS You must use at least 6 academic references. Your grade will be based on both your research and analysis of the case.<\/b><\/p>\n

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Only use if relevant – readings: <\/b><\/p>\n


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Possible Readings and Useful Concepts on the concept of \u2018Unintended Consequences\u201d:<\/i>
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See the related concept of the \u2018Hiding Hand\u2019 in the Albert O. Hirschman book, <\/span>Development Projects Observed<\/i>.
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Some Hayekian (liberal political economy related to neoclassical economics) interpretations of unintended consequences are discussed in Solomon, M.S. 2010.Critical Ideas in Times of Crisis: Reconsidering Smith, Marx, Keynes, and Hayek. <\/span>Globalizations<\/span><\/i> <\/span>7, no.1-2: 127\u201335.<\/span>
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A Marxian understanding<\/span>, as per Friedrich <\/span><\/span>Engels (1959, 230):
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The ends of actions are intended, but the result which actually follow from these actions are not intended, or when they do seem to correspond to the end intended, they ultimately have consequences quite other than those intended. Historical events thus appear to be governed by chance. But where on the surface accident appears to hold sway, policy, economics, law and consequences are actually governed by inner, hidden laws, and it is only a matter of discovering these laws.<\/p>\n

See Engels, F. 1888. Ludwig Feuerbach and the end of classical German philosophy. In <\/span>Marx and Engels: Basic Writings on Politics and Philosophy<\/i>. Ed. L. S. Feuer. 1959 ed. New York: Anchor Books. (can likely be found on the internet)
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A more institutional approach to unintended consequences: Ho, P. 2013. In defense of endogenous, spontaneously ordered development: institutional functionalism and Chinese property rights. <\/span>Journal of Peasant Studies<\/i> <\/span>40, no. 6: 1087-118.
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