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FACULTY BIOGRAPHIES -- David Hirschmann

David Hirschmann
B.A., LL.B., M.A., Ph.D.,
University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa)
E-mail: dhirsch@american.edu
Phone: (202) 885-1655

I have number of interests, and these change from time to time. Today I would say I focus mainly on development management, strategic planning and performance measurement, micropolitics/social soundness, gender and development, bureaucracy, democracy and decentralization. I have worked in several African countries as a professor and researcher, and have undertaken consulting assignments in many countries in Africa and Asia and in a few transitional societies.

I have written approximately 55 publications, mostly in scholarly journals, but some in more applied journals. The major topics I have covered include: Reengineering and Performance Measurement in USAID; Development Management/ Bureaucracy/ Administration, and Planning; Women and Development; Women and Political Participation/ Democracy/ Civil Society; Elections Management; Institutional Development; Rural Development; Development Policy; and Southern African Politics.

These have been published in Journals such as: International Review of Administrative Sciences (Brussels), Development in Practice (UK) (two articles), Administration and Society (Newbury Park); Development and Change (The Hague) (three articles); Public Administration and Development (London) (four articles), World Development (Washington, DC) (three articles); African Affairs (London) (two articles); Journal of Modern African Studies (Cambridge) (two articles); Journal of Developing Areas (Western Illinois); Transafrica Forum (Washington, DC); Africa Rural and Urban Studies (East Lansing, MI); Rural Africana (Michigan); International Journal of African Historical Studies (Boston); Journal of Southern African Studies (Oxford); Journal of Contemporary African Studies (RSA); Foreign Affairs (New York); Planning and Administration (The Hague) (two articles); Journal of Administration Overseas (London) (two articles); Indian Journal of Public Administration (New Delhi). Some years back I wrote Women Farmers in Malawi (Institute of International Studies, University of California, 1984) and Changing Attitudes of Black South Africans toward the United States (Edward Mellen Press, 1989).

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