The Palgrave Handbook of Comparative Public Administration: Concepts and Cases (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9789811915796)

Murat Önder is a Professor, Department of Political Science and Public Administration at Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University, Turkey. He is member of the Turkish Higher Education Quality Council. He worked in national and international projects as an executive, researcher, consultant and evaluator. He served as a director in in public and university research and education centers. He also provided consultancy services in the fields of strategic planning, performance, quality, etc. for public and private sector organizations. Between 2015 and 2016, he chaired the Diaspora Research Center of the Presidency for Turks Abroad and Related Communities. In 2014, he was as a director in Directorate of Science Fellowships and Grant Programmes (BİDEB), The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBİTAK). In 2013, he took part as an expert in the project called "Civilian Oversight of Internal Security Forces" carried out in cooperation with UNDP and the Ministry ofInterior. Between 2010 and 2012, he worked as the head and also the minister's advisor at the Ministry of Labor and Social Security, Labor and Social Security Education and Research Center (ÇASGEM). His research interests include, but not limited to comparative public administration, comparative research, strategic management, performance management, quality, artificial intelligence and civil society.

Israel Nyaburi Nyadera, Ph.D., lectures International Studies at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) Egerton University (Njoro, Kenya) and International Security at the School of International Relations and Diplomacy, Riara Universiy.. Nyadera is a Charles E. Scheidt Fellow for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention at the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, George Manson University, (Washington, USA) and a Kautilya Fellow for the Leadership, Policy and Strategy at the Indian Foundation. He has been a visiting fellow at the Department of Economics and Political Science, University of Milan (Italy).

Md. Nazmul Islam is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and Public Administration and Head of Türkiye, Asia and Indo-Pacific Studies, Institute for International Relations and Strategic Research (ULİSA) at the Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University (AYBU), Ankara, Turkey. Islam is a former ERASMUS Research Fellow at Europa Institute, Saarland University, Germany, and a former Research Associate at the Joint Project between the University of Cambridge (Judge Business School), UK, and BRAC (Research and Evaluation Unit), Bangladesh. Dr. Islam is the author of several books, many book chapters, peer-reviewed articles and has more than 30 conferences proceeding including in the University of Toronto, Canada, Oxford University, UK, Virginia University, USA and King College London, UK, etc.

Dr. Islam worked in different positions and projects conducted at the University of Cambridge, UK; Saarland University, Germany; University of Trento, Italy; Greifswald University, Germany; OIC-SESRIC, BRAC University, BRAC, Grameen Bank-Yunus Center, UNDP, YTB, ILO and teaches in the Department of Media and Communication Studies at the Faculty of Communication, Ankara University, Turkey. He specializes in and teaches Asia and Indo Pacific Strategy, Non-Western Soft Power Strategy, Current Debates in Social and Political Theory, Peace and Conflict Resolution, Religion, Politics and Comparative Public Policy. Islam's major areas of interest include policy, politics, and foreign policy of the South, Southeast and West Asia, especially China and India's policy and politics in the contemporary world.