Public Administration in South Asia: India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan Tapa dura - 2013 - 1st Edición

Meghna Sabharwal is an Assistant Professor in the School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas where she teaches human resource management. Her research interests are focused on workforce policy as it relates to job satisfaction, productivity, and diversity. Her expertise lies in studying these issues with special attention to the scientific enterprise of the United States. Her work is published or forthcoming in academic journals such as Public Administration, Review of Public Personnel Administration, The Social Science Journal, Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering, Government Information Quarterly, and Research in Higher Education. Her book chapter about gender differences in scholarly productivity of faculty in public administration and policy will be published in late 2010. She received her doctorate in public administration from Arizona State University, and worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the City College of New York, City University of New York before joining the faculty at the University of Texas at Dallas.

Evan M. Berman is university chair professor at the National Chengchi University (Taipei, Taiwan) Doctoral Program in Asia-Pacific Studies, and the Department of Public Administration. He is recognized among the most productive scholars of his generation. He is also the editor-in-chief of the American Society for Public Administration's (ASPA) book series in public administration and public policy (Taylor & Francis) and senior editor of Public Performance & Management Review. His areas of interest are public administration performance, human relations and motivation, and emerging forms of governance. He has published in the leading journals of the discipline. He is also editor-in-chief of the third edition of the Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy (2007). Before joining NCCU, he was the Huey McElveen Distinguished Professor at Louisiana State University, past recipient of a Distinguished Fulbright Scholarship at Yonsei University (Seoul, South Korea), and taught at the University of Central Florida (Orlando) and the University of Miami. He has previously served as a policy analyst for the National Science Foundation and as a consultant to the National Academy of Sciences and U.S. Congress.