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Research.com Recognitions

  • Fellow of The National Academy of Public Administration
  • Fellow of The National Academy of Public Administration
  • Fellow of The National Academy of Public Administration

Overview

Alasdair S. Roberts is affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the United States. Their research primarily resides within the social sciences, with a focus on political science, public administration, law, and history. The subfields contributing to their work include Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science, Public Administration, Law, and History.

Their scholarly output consists of numerous publications across several topics, including Public Policy and Administration Research, Political and Economic History of the UK and US, Electoral Systems and Political Participation, Judicial and Constitutional Studies, Policy Transfer and Learning, Regulation and Compliance Studies, and Disaster Management and Resilience.

Alasdair S. Roberts has published articles in a variety of academic journals, with frequent contributions to:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Public Administration Review
  • Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
  • Canadian Public Administration
  • Perspectives on Public Management and Governance

Recent notable papers include:

  • "Dysfunction by Design: Trumpism as Administrative Doctrine," 2020, Public Administration Review
  • "The Third and Fatal Shock: How Pandemic Killed the Millennial Paradigm," 2020, Public Administration Review
  • "Beyond COVID-19: Five commentaries on reimagining governance for future crises and resilience," 2020, Canadian Public Administration
  • "Who Should We Count as Citizens? Categorizing People in Public Administration Research," 2020, Public Administration Review
  • "Should We Defend the Administrative State?," 2020, Public Administration Review

Alasdair has also authored books published by reputable presses. Titles include "The Collapse of Fortress Bush," published by New York University Press eBooks in 2022, and "Strategies for Governing," published by Cornell University Press eBooks in 2020.

The collaborative aspect of Alasdair's research involves frequent co-authors, such as Ian Elliott, Donald P. Moynihan, Astrid Brousselle, Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly, and Christopher Kennedy.

Alasdair S. Roberts has been recognized as a Fellow of The National Academy of Public Administration, reflecting engagement with the broader public administration community.

Best Publications

  • Blacked Out: Government Secrecy in the Information Age

    Alasdair Roberts

  • The Logic of Discipline: Global Capitalism and the Architecture of Government

    Alasdair Roberts

  • Spin Control and Freedom of Information: Lessons for the United Kingdom from Canada

    Alasdair S. Roberts

  • WikiLeaks: the illusion of transparency:

    Alasdair Roberts

  • A Great and Revolutionary Law? The First Four Years of India’s Right to Information Act

    Alasdair Roberts

  • Dashed Expectations: Governmental Adaptation to Transparency Rules

    Alasdair Roberts

  • The Logic of Discipline

    Alasdair Roberts

  • The Triumph of Loyalty Over Competence: The Bush Administration and the Exhaustion of the Politicized Presidency

    Donald P. Moynihan;Alasdair S. Roberts

  • Structural Pluralism and the Right to Information

    Alasdair Roberts

  • Demonstrating Neutrality: The Rockefeller Philanthropies and the Evolution of Public Administration, 1927-1936

    Alasdair Roberts

  • Less Government, More Secrecy: Reinvention and the Weakening of Freedom of Information Law

    Alasdair S. Roberts

  • Why the Occupy Movement Failed

    Alasdair Roberts

  • Performance-Based Organizations: Assessing the Gore Plan

    Alasdair Roberts

  • America's First Great Depression: Economic Crisis and Political Disorder after the Panic of 1837

    Alasdair Roberts

  • A Partial Revolution: The Diplomatic Ethos and Transparency in Intergovernmental Organizations

    Alasdair Roberts

  • Administrative discretion and the Access to Information Act: An “internal law” on open government?

    Alasdair Roberts

  • Is Public Management Neglecting the State

    Brint Milward;Laura Jensen;Alasdair Roberts;Mauricio I. Dussauge-Laguna

  • “Civic discovery” as a rhetorical strategy

    Alasdair Roberts

  • Bridging Levels of Public Administration: How Macro Shapes Meso and Micro:

    Alasdair Roberts

  • Publishing performance information: An illusion of control?

    Steven Van de Walle;Steven Van de Walle;Alasdair Roberts

  • Too Much Transparency? How Critics of Openness Misunderstand Administrative Development

    Alasdair S. Roberts

  • Beyond COVID-19: Five commentaries on reimagining governance for future crises and resilience

    Astrid Brousselle;Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly;Christopher Kennedy;Susan D Phillips

  • Bearing the White Man’s Burden: American Empire and the Origin of Public Administration

    Alasdair Roberts

  • Strategies for Governing: Reinventing Public Administration for a Dangerous Century

    Alasdair Roberts

  • The Collapse of Fortress Bush: The Crisis of Authority in American Government

    Alasdair Roberts

  • Who Should We Count as Citizens? Categorizing People in Public Administration Research

    Alasdair Roberts

  • National Security and Open Government

    Alasdair S. Roberts

  • Limited Access: Assessing the Health of Canada's Freedom of Information Laws

    Alasdair S. Roberts

  • THE FOURTH REVOLUTION: THE GLOBAL RACE TO REINVENT THE STATE

    Alasdair Roberts

  • ORCON Creep: Information sharing and the threat to government accountability

    Alasdair Roberts

  • Large Forces: What's Missing In Public Administration

    Alasdair Roberts

  • The Confidence Trap: A History Of Democracy In Crisis From World War I To The Present

    Alasdair Roberts

  • Public Service Reform and the New Security Agenda

    Donald P. Moynihan;Alasdair S. Roberts

  • Demonstrating Neutrality: The Rockefeller Philanthropies and the Evolution of Public Administration, 1927-36

    Alasdair S. Roberts

  • The coming democracy: New rules for running a new world

    Alasdair Roberts

Frequent Co-Authors

Donald P. Moynihan
Donald P. Moynihan University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
David Coen
David Coen University College London
Christopher Kennedy
Christopher Kennedy University of Victoria
Austin Sarat
Austin Sarat Amherst College
Arjen Boin
Arjen Boin Leiden University
Robert F. Durant
Robert F. Durant American University
David M. Van Slyke
David M. Van Slyke Syracuse University
Donald F. Kettl
Donald F. Kettl The University of Texas at Austin

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