Robert LaPorte, Jr. (Pennsylvania State University)

submitted:    Tue, 8 Nov 94 10:59 EST

Robert LaPorte, Jr.
Professor of Public Administration and Political Science
Department of Political Science
The Pennsylvania State University
107 Burrowes Building
University Park, Pennsylvania  16802  USA

phones: 814-863-0816 (office)
        814-466-6319 (residence)
Fax:    814-863-8979
email:  rql@psuvm.psu.edu

Description of Work:
The countries in which I have conducted research or completed consulting
assignments for bilateral and international assistance agencies include:
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka.  I have also
conducted research in Chile and Peru and consulted in Egypt.  My teaching
interests include:  government and politics in South Asia (Bangladesh,
Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka); government and politics in the
Islamic countries (in particular, Egypt, Pakistan, Turkey); U.S. public
administration and management; U.S. public personnel/human resources
management; U.S. public budgeting and financial management; public policy
and administration.  I have evaluated development assistance projects and
programs for The World Bank, United States Agency for International
Development (USAID), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and
United States Information Agency (USIA).  I have also designed
international development assistance projects.  I also teach graduate
seminars in International Development Administration, Comparative Public
Administration, Comparative Politics, and Comparative American State
Government and Politics.  At the undergraduate level I teach Bureaucracy
and Public Policy, Government and Politics of Developing Countries (also
called low-income countries, the Third World, underdeveloped countries,
etc.) with concentrations on low- and middle-income countries. My research
has focused on decision-making and influence structure in Pakistan, public
enterprise finance/economics and management in Pakistan, privatization and
its impact on political and social groups in Pakistan, public 
administrative reform in Pakistan and Bangladesh, agrarian reform in Latin
America, political economy in Pakistan, elites and decision-making,
political and governmental institutions and their management (both abroad
and in the U.S.