Dennis A Rondinelli Editor & Author

G. Shabbir Cheema is the principal adviser on governance in the Department of Public Administration and Development Management, within the UN's Department of Economic and Social Affairs. His most recent book is Building Democratic Institutions: Governance Reform in Developing Countries (Kumarian Press, 2005). The late Dennis A. Rondinelli was senior research scholar of public policy studies at Duke University's Center for International Development, North Carolina, USA. Among his books is Beyond Reconstruction in Afghanistan: Lessons from Development Experience., coedited with John D. Montgomery (Palgrave, 2004).