Alasdair Roberts (academic)

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.

For the Scottish folk musician, see Alasdair Roberts (musician).

Alasdair S. Roberts

1961 (age 62â€“63)

New Liskeard, Ontario, Canada

Queen's University, University of Toronto Law School, Harvard Kennedy School

Administrative law, public policy, government secrecy, governmental reform

The Adaptable Country: How Canada Can Survive the Twenty-First Century, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2024.

Superstates: Empires of the Twenty-First Century, Polity Books, 2023.

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, Oxford University Press, published in 2017;

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The End of Protest: How Free Market Capitalism Learned to Control Dissent, published in 2013;

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America's First Great Depression: Economic Crisis and Political Disorder after the Panic of 1837, published in 2012;

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The Logic of Discipline: Global Capitalism and the Architecture of Government, published in 2010, which received an honorable mention from the book award committee of the Section on Public Administration Research of the American Society for Public Administration;

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The Collapse of Fortress Bush: The Crisis of Authority in American Government, published in 2008;

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Blacked Out: Government Secrecy in the Information Age, 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.

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Alasdair Roberts

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