Policy Fellowship: Session with Prof. Alasdair S. Roberts

​Alasdair Roberts is the Director of the School of Public Policy at University of Massachusetts, Amherst.  He is also a professor of public policy.

​Professor Roberts writes extensively on problems of governance, law and public policy.  His most recent book, Strategies for Governing, was published by Cornell University Press in 2020.  It received the best book award from the ASPA Section on Public Administration Research in 2021. 

​ His previous book, Can Government Do Anything Right?, was published by Polity Books in April 2018.  His other books include: Four Crises of American Democracy, (Oxford University Press, 2017);  The End of Protest: How Free-Market Capitalism Learned to Control Dissent, (Cornell University Press, 2013); America’s First Great Depression (Cornell University Press, 2012);  The Logic of Discipline: Global Capitalism and the Architecture of Government (Oxford University Press, 2010), which received an honorable mention from the Best Book award committee of the American Society of Public Administration’s Section on Public Administration Research; and The Collapse of Fortress Bush: The Crisis of Authority in American Government (New York University Press, 2008).  Blacked Out: Government Secrecy in the Information Age, published by Cambridge University Press in 2006, received the Brownlow Book Award from the US National Academy of Public Administration, and three other academic book awards. 

​Professor Roberts has also won several awards for his journal articles.