[[File:20140211_marthacoakley.jpg|thumb|Professor Alasdair Roberts and Mass. Attorney General [[Martha Coakley]] at the Rappaport Center for Law and Public Service on February 11, 2014.]]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. Roberts was a [[Red Tory#Origins|Red Tory]] who supported policies such as [[Ontario Health Insurance Plan|universal public health insurance]] and [[Ontario Human Rights Code|strong human rights legislation]]. He was an ex officio delegate to the federal [[1983 Progressive Conservative leadership election|Progressive Conservative leadership election of 1983]] where he supported [[David Crombie]].
[[File:20140211_marthacoakley.jpg|thumb|Professor Alasdair Roberts and Mass. Attorney General [[Martha Coakley]] at the Rappaport Center for Law and Public Service on February 11, 2014.]]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. Roberts was a [[Red Tory#Origins|Red Tory]] who supported policies such as [[Ontario Health Insurance Plan|universal public health insurance]] and [[Ontario Human Rights Code|strong human rights legislation]]. He was an ex officio delegate to the federal [[1983 Progressive Conservative leadership election|Progressive Conservative leadership election of 1983]] where he supported [[David Crombie]].
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.
Education
Alasdair Roberts speaks at the 2019 graduation ceremony of the School of Public Policy, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Massachusetts Treasurer Timothy P. Cahill (right) and Roberts participate in a roundtable discussion at the Rappaport Center for Law and Public Service, Suffolk University Law School, October 3, 2008.
In 2017, Professor Roberts was appointed as a professor of political science and director of the School of Public Policy at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.[2]
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;
Can Government Do Anything Right? Polity Books, published in 2018;
Four Crises of American Democracy: Representation, Mastery, Discipline, Anticipation,[19] Oxford University Press, published in 2017;
The End of Protest: How Free Market Capitalism Learned to Control Dissent,[20] published in 2013;
America's First Great Depression: Economic Crisis and Political Disorder after the Panic of 1837,[21] published in 2012;
The Logic of Discipline: Global Capitalism and the Architecture of Government, published in 2010,[22] which received an honorable mention from the book award committee of the Section on Public Administration Research of the American Society for Public Administration;
The Collapse of Fortress Bush: The Crisis of Authority in American Government,[23] published in 2008;
Blacked Out: Government Secrecy in the Information Age,[24] published in 2006, which received the 2006 Louis Brownlow Book Award from the National Academy of Public Administration, the 2007 book award from the Section on Public Administration Research of the American Society for Public Administration, the 2007 Best Book Award of the Academy of Management's Public and Nonprofit Division, and the 2007 Charles Levine Memorial Book Prize of the International Political Science Association's Research Committee on the Structure of Government.
^Roh, Jane. "...But That Won't Mitigate A Really Bad Decade In Iraq." The Gate. National Journal. 21 December 2007. [6]Archived 2007-08-11 at archive.today
^Roberts, Alasdair. "The War We Deserve." Foreign Policy. November/December 2007. [7]
^Van Slyke, David and Alasdair Roberts. "Good Intentions, Bad Idea." Government Executive. 27 August 2007. [8]Archived 2011-09-18 at the Wayback Machine
^Roberts, Alasdair. The Collapse of Fortress Bush: The Crisis of Authority in American Government. New York: New York University Press, 2008. [11]Archived 2008-03-02 at the Wayback Machine
^Roberts, Alasdair. Blacked Out: Government Secrecy in the Information Age[12]