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[[File:Al Roberts.jpg|thumb|Roberts at the graduation ceremony of the School of Public Policy at the [[University of Massachusetts Amherst]] in 2019]] |
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Alasdair Roberts was born in [[Temiskaming Shores|New Liskeard, Ontario]], Canada and grew up in [[Pembroke, Ontario]], Canada, where he graduated from [[Fellowes High School]]. He began his BA in politics at [[Queen's University at Kingston|Queen's University]] in 1979. He received a JD from the [[University of Toronto]] Faculty of Law in 1984, a master's degree in public policy from the [[Kennedy School |
Alasdair Roberts was born in [[Temiskaming Shores|New Liskeard, Ontario]], Canada and grew up in [[Pembroke, Ontario]], Canada, where he graduated from [[Fellowes High School]]. He began his BA in politics at [[Queen's University at Kingston|Queen's University]] in 1979. He received a JD from the [[University of Toronto]] Faculty of Law in 1984, a master's degree in public policy from the [[Harvard Kennedy School]] at [[Harvard University]] in 1986, and a Ph.D. in public policy from [[Harvard University]] in 1994.<ref>[http://www.aroberts.us Curriculum vitae: Alasdair Roberts. ''aroberts.us'']</ref> |
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==Academic career== |
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[[Image:RC Roundtable Oct3 2008.jpg|thumb|Massachusetts Treasurer [[Tim Cahill (politician)|Tim Cahill]] (right) and Roberts on a roundtable discussion at the [[Rappaport Center for Law and Public Policy]] at [[Suffolk University Law School]] in October 2008]] |
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In 2017, Roberts was appointed as a professor of political science and director of the School of Public Policy at the [[University of Massachusetts Amherst]].<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.masspolicy.org/news/alasdair-roberts-named-director-umass-school-public-policy| title=Alasdair Roberts Named Director of the UMass School of Public Policy| date=March 28, 2017| publisher=School of Public Policy| access-date=April 20, 2017| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170420235515/http://www.masspolicy.org/news/alasdair-roberts-named-director-umass-school-public-policy| archive-date=April 20, 2017| url-status=dead}}</ref> He completed his term as director of the School of Public Policy in 2022. |
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From 2015 to 2017, Roberts was a professor of public affairs in the [[Truman School of Public Affairs]] at the [[University of Missouri]]. From 2008 to 2014, Roberts was the [[Jerome Lyle Rappaport|Jerome L. Rappaport]] Professor of Law and Public Policy at [[Suffolk University Law School]].<ref>"Alasdair Roberts Named to Rappaport Chair at Law School." Suffolk University. 24 March 2008.[https://web.archive.org/web/20150122081447/http://www2.suffolk.edu/27941.html]</ref> He was also Faculty Director of the [[Rappaport Center for Law and Public Service]]. Before that, he was a professor of [[public administration]] in the [[Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs]] at [[Syracuse University]], and also Director of the Campbell Public Affairs Institute at the Maxwell School. Until 2001, he was an associate professor in the School of Policy Studies at [[Queen's University at Kingston|Queen's University]], and also served as associate director of the School from 1993 to 1995. |
From 2015 to 2017, Roberts was a professor of public affairs in the [[Truman School of Public Affairs]] at the [[University of Missouri]]. From 2008 to 2014, Roberts was the [[Jerome Lyle Rappaport|Jerome L. Rappaport]] Professor of Law and Public Policy at [[Suffolk University Law School]].<ref>"Alasdair Roberts Named to Rappaport Chair at Law School." Suffolk University. 24 March 2008.[https://web.archive.org/web/20150122081447/http://www2.suffolk.edu/27941.html]</ref> He was also Faculty Director of the [[Rappaport Center for Law and Public Service]]. Before that, he was a professor of [[public administration]] in the [[Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs]] at [[Syracuse University]], and also Director of the Campbell Public Affairs Institute at the Maxwell School. Until 2001, he was an associate professor in the School of Policy Studies at [[Queen's University at Kingston|Queen's University]], and also served as associate director of the School from 1993 to 1995. |
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He is also a Fellow of the [[National Academy of Public Administration (United States)|National Academy of Public Administration]]. Previously he was a public member of the [[Administrative Conference of the United States]], an Honorary Senior Research Fellow of the Constitution Unit, School of Public Policy, [[University College London]], and co-editor of the journal [[Governance (journal)|Governance]]. |
He is also a Fellow of the [[National Academy of Public Administration (United States)|National Academy of Public Administration]]. Previously he was a public member of the [[Administrative Conference of the United States]], an Honorary Senior Research Fellow of the Constitution Unit, School of Public Policy, [[University College London]], and co-editor of the journal [[Governance (journal)|Governance]]. In 2022-23 he was the Jocelyne Bourgon Visiting Scholar at the [[Canada School of Public Service]]. |
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He received the Grace-Pépin Access to Information Award in 2014 for his research on open government.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.oic-ci.gc.ca/eng/communique-de-presse-news-releases-2014_6.aspx |title=Winner of the 2014 Grace-Pépin Access to Information Award |access-date=2015-07-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190504235400/http://oic-ci.gc.ca/eng/communique-de-presse-news-releases-2014_6.aspx |archive-date=2019-05-04 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 2022 he received the Riggs Award for Lifetime Achievement in Comparative Administration from the American Society of Public Administration. |
He received the Grace-Pépin Access to Information Award in 2014 for his research on open government.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.oic-ci.gc.ca/eng/communique-de-presse-news-releases-2014_6.aspx |title=Winner of the 2014 Grace-Pépin Access to Information Award |access-date=2015-07-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190504235400/http://oic-ci.gc.ca/eng/communique-de-presse-news-releases-2014_6.aspx |archive-date=2019-05-04 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 2022 he received the [[Riggs Award for Lifetime Achievement in International and Comparative Public Administration]] from the American Society of Public Administration. |
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He has been cited in publications including ''[[The Boston Globe]]'',<ref>Moskowitz, Eric. "DeLeo proposes ethics overhaul as skepticism reigns." ''The Boston Globe''. 25 March 2009. [http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/03/25/deleo_proposes_ethics_overhaul_as_skepticism_reigns/]</ref> ''[[The Christian Science Monitor]]'',<ref>Grier, David. "Military spending: up and away." ''Christian Science Monitor''. 24 October 2007. [http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1024/p01s08-usec.html]</ref> ''[[The San Diego Union-Tribune]]'',<ref>Walker, S. Lynne. "For Mexico, open records unlock doors." ''The San Diego Union-Tribune''. 20 November 2005. [http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20051120/news_1n20openrec.html]</ref> ''[[The Times]]'' (London),<ref>O'Neill, Sean. "Freedom to interfere? No minister, it's too sensitive." ''The Times''. 3 October 2005. [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article574020.ece]</ref> ''[[Prospect (magazine)|Prospect]]'',<ref>[http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=10565 "How Should We Rate 2008?" ''Prospect''. January 2009]</ref> and the ''[[National Journal]]''.<ref>Roh, Jane. "...But That Won't Mitigate A Really Bad Decade In Iraq." The Gate. ''National Journal''. 21 December 2007. [http://thegate.nationaljournal.com/2007/12/but_that_wont_mitigate_a_reall.php] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20070811222531/http://thegate.nationaljournal.com/2007/12/but_that_wont_mitigate_a_reall.php|date=2007-08-11}}</ref> His essays have appeared in numerous periodicals in the United Kingdom, Canada, the United States, and elsewhere, including ''The Guardian'',<ref>[http://www.guardianpublic.co.uk/economic-liberalisation-democracy-roberts "The dangers of guardian rule."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120302124320/http://www.guardianpublic.co.uk/economic-liberalisation-democracy-roberts |date=2012-03-02 }} ''Guardian Public''. 12 January 2009.</ref> ''[[Foreign Affairs]]'', ''[[Foreign Policy (magazine)|Foreign Policy]]'',<ref>Roberts, Alasdair. "The War We Deserve." ''Foreign Policy''. November/December 2007. [https://foreignpolicy.com/users/login.php?story_id=3992&URL=https://foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=3992&page=3]</ref> ''Government Executive'',<ref>Van Slyke, David and Alasdair Roberts. "Good Intentions, Bad Idea." ''Government Executive''. 27 August 2007. [http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?filepath=/dailyfed/0807/082707ol.htm] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110918020652/http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?filepath=%2Fdailyfed%2F0807%2F082707ol.htm|date=2011-09-18}}</ref> ''Prospect'',<ref>[http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?search_term=alasdair+roberts&id=7035 Roberts, Alasdair. "System Failure." ''Prospect''. October 2005]</ref> ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'' (Toronto),<ref>{{cite news |last1=Roberts |first1=Alasdair |title=The seven-year botch |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/the-seven-year-botch/article20423976/ |access-date=January 24, 2020 |work=The Globe and Mail |date=July 7, 2005}}</ref> ''[[Dnevnik (Sofia)|Dnevnik]]'',<ref>Roberts, Alasdair. "What Does NATO Expect?" ''Dnevnik''. 15 October 2003. [http://www.aip-bg.org/library/press/dnev_151003_eng.htm]</ref> ''[[Saturday Night (magazine)|Saturday Night]]'',<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.aroberts.us/Site/Articles_%26_Chapters_files/Roberts_SaturdayNight_Oct05.pdf |title=Roberts, Alasdair. "The Insider." ''Saturday Night''. October 2005 |access-date=2018-10-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724183804/http://www.aroberts.us/Site/Articles_%26_Chapters_files/Roberts_SaturdayNight_Oct05.pdf |archive-date=2011-07-24 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and ''[[The Washington Post]]''.<ref>Roberts, Alasdair. "The Bush Years, In a Word." ''The Washington Post''. 1 January 2007. [http://www.aroberts.us/Site/Articles_&_Chapters_files/Roberts_WashPost_Jan1_07.pdf] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724183850/http://www.aroberts.us/Site/Articles_%26_Chapters_files/Roberts_WashPost_Jan1_07.pdf|date=2011-07-24}}</ref> |
He has been cited in publications including ''[[The Boston Globe]]'',<ref>Moskowitz, Eric. "DeLeo proposes ethics overhaul as skepticism reigns." ''The Boston Globe''. 25 March 2009. [http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/03/25/deleo_proposes_ethics_overhaul_as_skepticism_reigns/]</ref> ''[[The Christian Science Monitor]]'',<ref>Grier, David. "Military spending: up and away." ''Christian Science Monitor''. 24 October 2007. [http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1024/p01s08-usec.html]</ref> ''[[The San Diego Union-Tribune]]'',<ref>Walker, S. Lynne. "For Mexico, open records unlock doors." ''The San Diego Union-Tribune''. 20 November 2005. [http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20051120/news_1n20openrec.html]</ref> ''[[The Times]]'' (London),<ref>O'Neill, Sean. "Freedom to interfere? No minister, it's too sensitive." ''The Times''. 3 October 2005. [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article574020.ece]</ref> ''[[Prospect (magazine)|Prospect]]'',<ref>[http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=10565 "How Should We Rate 2008?" ''Prospect''. January 2009]</ref> and the ''[[National Journal]]''.<ref>Roh, Jane. "...But That Won't Mitigate A Really Bad Decade In Iraq." The Gate. ''National Journal''. 21 December 2007. [http://thegate.nationaljournal.com/2007/12/but_that_wont_mitigate_a_reall.php] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20070811222531/http://thegate.nationaljournal.com/2007/12/but_that_wont_mitigate_a_reall.php|date=2007-08-11}}</ref> His essays have appeared in numerous periodicals in the United Kingdom, Canada, the United States, and elsewhere, including ''The Guardian'',<ref>[http://www.guardianpublic.co.uk/economic-liberalisation-democracy-roberts "The dangers of guardian rule."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120302124320/http://www.guardianpublic.co.uk/economic-liberalisation-democracy-roberts |date=2012-03-02 }} ''Guardian Public''. 12 January 2009.</ref> ''[[Foreign Affairs]]'', ''[[Foreign Policy (magazine)|Foreign Policy]]'',<ref>Roberts, Alasdair. "The War We Deserve." ''Foreign Policy''. November/December 2007. [https://foreignpolicy.com/users/login.php?story_id=3992&URL=https://foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=3992&page=3]</ref> ''Government Executive'',<ref>Van Slyke, David and Alasdair Roberts. "Good Intentions, Bad Idea." ''Government Executive''. 27 August 2007. [http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?filepath=/dailyfed/0807/082707ol.htm] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110918020652/http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?filepath=%2Fdailyfed%2F0807%2F082707ol.htm|date=2011-09-18}}</ref> ''Prospect'',<ref>[http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?search_term=alasdair+roberts&id=7035 Roberts, Alasdair. "System Failure." ''Prospect''. October 2005]</ref> ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'' (Toronto),<ref>{{cite news |last1=Roberts |first1=Alasdair |title=The seven-year botch |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/the-seven-year-botch/article20423976/ |access-date=January 24, 2020 |work=The Globe and Mail |date=July 7, 2005}}</ref> ''[[Dnevnik (Sofia)|Dnevnik]]'',<ref>Roberts, Alasdair. "What Does NATO Expect?" ''Dnevnik''. 15 October 2003. [http://www.aip-bg.org/library/press/dnev_151003_eng.htm]</ref> ''[[Saturday Night (magazine)|Saturday Night]]'',<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.aroberts.us/Site/Articles_%26_Chapters_files/Roberts_SaturdayNight_Oct05.pdf |title=Roberts, Alasdair. "The Insider." ''Saturday Night''. October 2005 |access-date=2018-10-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724183804/http://www.aroberts.us/Site/Articles_%26_Chapters_files/Roberts_SaturdayNight_Oct05.pdf |archive-date=2011-07-24 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and ''[[The Washington Post]]''.<ref>Roberts, Alasdair. "The Bush Years, In a Word." ''The Washington Post''. 1 January 2007. [http://www.aroberts.us/Site/Articles_&_Chapters_files/Roberts_WashPost_Jan1_07.pdf] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724183850/http://www.aroberts.us/Site/Articles_%26_Chapters_files/Roberts_WashPost_Jan1_07.pdf|date=2011-07-24}}</ref> |
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[[File:20140211_marthacoakley.jpg|thumb|Roberts and Massachusetts Attorney General [[Martha Coakley]] at the Rappaport Center for Law and Public Service in February 2014]] |
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==Books== |
==Books== |
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* ''The Adaptable Country: How Canada Can Survive the Twenty-First Century,'' McGill-Queen's University Press, 2024. |
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* ''Superstates: Empires of the Twenty-First Century,'' Polity Books, 2023. |
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* ''Strategies for Governing: Reinventing Public Administration for a Dangerous Age,'' Cornell University Press, published in 2019, which received the 2021 book award from the Section on Public Administration Research of the [[American Society for Public Administration]]; |
* ''Strategies for Governing: Reinventing Public Administration for a Dangerous Age,'' Cornell University Press, published in 2019, which received the 2021 book award from the Section on Public Administration Research of the [[American Society for Public Administration]]; |
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*''Can Government Do Anything Right?'' Polity Books, published in 2018; |
*''Can Government Do Anything Right?'' Polity Books, published in 2018; |
Alasdair S. Roberts
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Born | 1961 (age 62–63)
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Alma mater | Queen's University, University of Toronto Law School, Harvard Kennedy School |
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Fields | Administrative law, public policy, government secrecy, governmental reform |
Alasdair S. Roberts (born 1961) is a Canadian professor at the School of Public Policy, University of Massachusetts Amherst, and author of articles and books on public policy issues, especially relating to government secrecy and the exercise of government authority.
Alasdair Roberts was born in New Liskeard, Ontario, Canada and grew up in Pembroke, Ontario, Canada, where he graduated from Fellowes High School. He began his BA in politics at Queen's University in 1979. He received a JD from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law in 1984, a master's degree in public policy from the Harvard Kennedy SchoolatHarvard University in 1986, and a Ph.D. in public policy from Harvard University in 1994.[1]
In 2017, Roberts was appointed as a professor of political science and director of the School of Public Policy at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.[2] He completed his term as director of the School of Public Policy in 2022.
From 2015 to 2017, Roberts was a professor of public affairs in the Truman School of Public Affairs at the University of Missouri. From 2008 to 2014, Roberts was the Jerome L. Rappaport Professor of Law and Public Policy at Suffolk University Law School.[3] He was also Faculty Director of the Rappaport Center for Law and Public Service. Before that, he was a professor of public administration in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public AffairsatSyracuse University, and also Director of the Campbell Public Affairs Institute at the Maxwell School. Until 2001, he was an associate professor in the School of Policy Studies at Queen's University, and also served as associate director of the School from 1993 to 1995.
He is also a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. Previously he was a public member of the Administrative Conference of the United States, an Honorary Senior Research Fellow of the Constitution Unit, School of Public Policy, University College London, and co-editor of the journal Governance. In 2022-23 he was the Jocelyne Bourgon Visiting Scholar at the Canada School of Public Service.
He received the Grace-Pépin Access to Information Award in 2014 for his research on open government.[4] In 2022 he received the Riggs Award for Lifetime Achievement in International and Comparative Public Administration from the American Society of Public Administration.
He has been cited in publications including The Boston Globe,[5] The Christian Science Monitor,[6] The San Diego Union-Tribune,[7] The Times (London),[8] Prospect,[9] and the National Journal.[10] His essays have appeared in numerous periodicals in the United Kingdom, Canada, the United States, and elsewhere, including The Guardian,[11] Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy,[12] Government Executive,[13] Prospect,[14] The Globe and Mail (Toronto),[15] Dnevnik,[16] Saturday Night,[17] and The Washington Post.[18]
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Roberts was a vice-president of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario from 1982 to 1984, during the Big Blue Machine era. He was a member of the executive for the youth wing of the party from 1980 to 1982. He was an ex officio delegate to the federal Progressive Conservative leadership election of 1983 where he supported David Crombie.
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