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
Roberts 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] He completed his term as director of the School of Public Policy in 2022.
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 Comparative Administration from the American Society of Public Administration.
Superstates: Empires of the Twenty-First Century, Polity Books, 2022.
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]