RECENT ACADEMIC OUTPUTS

Books
Open Government and Freedom of Information
Perspectives and Practices of Public Administration in South Asia: Pos...
The Displaced Rohingyas A Tale of a Vulnerable Community
Political Patronage in Asian Bureaucracies
Handbook on Asian Public Administration
FROM VISION TO REALITY: Sustainable Development through Effective Gove...
Making Democratic Decentralization Work in South Asia: Looking Back an...
Elite Capture and Public Policy in Asia: Safeguarding Democratic Gove...
Articles
The Indian Administration: A Saga of Continuity and Change
Dilemmas of Policy Response during COVID-19 Pandemic: The Case of University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh
Surviving the Crisis: Making Intergovernmental Relations Strong for Fighting the Pandemic, Case from Nepal
Administrative Decentralization and Combating Covid-19: The Case of a South Indian State
Seemi Waheed, Maqbool Sial and Aisha Azhar (2023). The bureaucratic disconnect in collaborative institutions: A case of rural water supply in Punjab, Pakistan. International Journal of Water Governance.
What does the evidence tell us about merit principles and government performance?
A spirit of service to the community: public service motivation in the New Zealand public service
The Impact of Covid-19 on Ethnic Minorities in Sri Lanka
Exploitation in Bangladeshi readymade garments supply chain: a case of irresponsible capitalism?
Key challenges of studying Public Administration in developing countries: An exploration from Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. Journal of Public Affairs Education, 2022. DOI: 10.1080/15236803.2022.2116262
COVID-19 vaccine equity in doldrums: Good governance deficits. Public Administration and Development. DOI: 10.1002/pad.1999
The Pandora papers open up pandora’s box: Integrity in Crisis. Public Integrity. DOI: 10.1080/10999922.2022.2035945
Risking lives to save others during COVID-19: A focus on public health care workers in Bangladesh and Egypt. International Journal of Health Services. DOI: 10.1177/00207314211063748
Capital city boosterism as policy legitimation: A discursive perspective of Egypt’s new administrative capital (with Kaye-Essien, C.). City, Culture and Society. DOI: 10.1016/j.ccs.2021.100437
Governance, natural resources rent, and infrastructure development: Evidence from the Middle East and North Africa (with Ali, H.E.). Politics & Policy. DOI: 10.1111/polp.12451
Advancing public service innovation through empathy: An analysis of Bangladesh’s Intrepid Approach (with Ehsan, S.M.A., Hossain, F., & Eldridge, D.). South Asian Journal of Human Resources Management. DOI: 10.1177/23220937221113993
Global health governance and health equity in the context of COVID-19: A scoping review (with Kheir-Mataria, W., El-Fawal, H., & Chun, S.). Healthcare. DOI: 10.3390/healthcare10030540
Institutional trust paradox: understanding the dynamics of trust among different ethnic groups in Sri Lanka. Contemporary South Asia, 2022. DOI: 10.1080/09584935.2022.2110570
Youth radicalization and violent extremism: a study of pathways in the post-war context of Sri Lanka. Journal of Youth Studies, 2022. DOI: 10.1080/13676261.2021.2010684
The Impact of Covid-19 on Ethnic Minorities in Sri Lanka