Alasdair Roberts

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Alasdair Roberts is affiliated with the following schools: University of Massachusetts Amherst, University of Missouri, Queen's University at Kingston, University of Toronto, Suffolk University

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According to Wikipedia, Alasdair S. Roberts 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.

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Policy Change And Learning: An Advocacy Coalition Approach (1993) (2889)
Blacked Out: Government Secrecy in the Information Age (2006) (264)
The Logic of Discipline: Global Capitalism and the Architecture of Government (2010) (121)
The Logic of Discipline (2010) (108)
Spin Control and Freedom of Information: Lessons for the United Kingdom from Canada (2005) (101)
A Great and Revolutionary Law? The First Four Years of India's Right to Information Act (2010) (90)
WikiLeaks: the illusion of transparency (2012) (84)
The Triumph of Loyalty Over Competence: The Bush Administration and the Exhaustion of the Politicized Presidency (2010) (74)
Dashed Expectations: Governmental Adaptation to Transparency Rules (2006) (69)
Less Government, More Secrecy: Reinvention and the Weakening of Freedom of Information Law (2000) (68)
Is Public Management Neglecting the State (2016) (67)
Demonstrating Neutrality: The Rockefeller Philanthropies and the Evolution of Public Administration, 1927-36 (1994) (60)
Administrative Discretion and the Access to Information Act: An 'Internal Law' on Open Government? (2002) (57)
Why the Occupy Movement Failed (2012) (55)
Structural Pluralism and the Right to Information (2001) (53)
Performance-Based Organizations: Assessing the Gore Plan (1997) (49)
Publishing Performance Information: An Illusion of Control? (2008) (48)
'Civic Discovery' as a Rhetorical Strategy (1995) (43)
A Partial Revolution: The Diplomatic Ethos and Transparency in Intergovernmental Organizations (2004) (43)
A New Age of Uncertainty (2012) (36)
Bridging Levels of Public Administration: How Macro Shapes Meso and Micro (2019) (36)
The Third and Fatal Shock: How Pandemic Killed the Millennial Paradigm (2020) (32)
The Aims of Public Administration: Reviving the Classical View (2017) (28)
The Collapse of Fortress Bush: The Crisis of Authority in American Government (2008) (23)
Commercializing Air Traffic Control: Have the Reforms Worked? (2007) (23)
The coming democracy: New rules for running a new world (2004) (21)
ASSESSING THE HEALTH OF CANADA'S FREEDOM OF INFORMATION LAWS (1998) (21)
A Dance Called America: the Scottish Highlands, the United States and Canada James Hunter Edinburgh: Mainstream, 1994. 288 pp., £14.99. (1995) (20)
Strategies for Governing: Reinventing Public Administration for a Dangerous Century (2019) (19)
National Security and Open Government (2004) (18)
Public sector transformation: Rethinking markets and hierarchies in government (1997) (17)
The Path Not Taken: Leonard White and the Macrodynamics of Administrative Development (2009) (16)
Retrenchment and Freedom of Information: Recent Experience Under Federal, Ontario, and British Columbia Law (1999) (16)
Large Forces: What's Missing In Public Administration (2013) (15)
Introduction to 'America's First Great Depression: Economic Crisis and Political Disorder after the Panic of 1837' (2011) (15)
ORCON Creep: Information sharing and the threat to government accountability (2004) (14)
The naked crowd: Reclaiming security and freedom in an anxious age (2004) (14)
Bearing the White Man’s Burden: American Empire and the Origin of Public Administration (2020) (14)
THE FOURTH REVOLUTION: THE GLOBAL RACE TO REINVENT THE STATE (2014) (13)
Public Service Reform and the New Security Agenda (2002) (13)
Dysfunction by Design: Trumpism as Administrative Doctrine (2020) (13)
The Rise and Fall of Discipline: Economic Globalization, Administrative Reform, and the Financial Crisis (2010) (12)
Four Crises of American Democracy: Representation, Mastery, Discipline, Anticipation (2016) (12)
Shaking Hands with Hitler: The Politics‐Administration Dichotomy and Engagement with Fascism (2018) (11)
Beyond COVID‐19: Five commentaries on reimagining governance for future crises and resilience (2020) (11)
Three Patterns in the Diffusion of Transparency Rules: Money, Guns and Human Rights (2003) (11)
Should We Defend the Administrative State? (2020) (10)
The Federal Government and Confederate Cotton (10)
Strategies for Governing (2020) (9)
Too Much Transparency? How Critics of Openness Misunderstand Administrative Development (2015) (9)
New Strategies for Enforcement of the Access to Information Act (2002) (9)
Multilateral Institutions and the Right to Information: Experience in the European Union (2001) (9)
Selling the Goods and Services Tax: Government Advertising and Public Discourse in Canada (1995) (8)
The Brownlow–Brookings Feud: The Politics of Dissent Within the Academic Community (1995) (8)
Entangling Alliances: NATO’s Security of Information Policy and the Entrenchment of State Secrecy (2003) (8)
The Limits of Control: The Market State, Divided Power, and the Response to 9/11 (2006) (8)
Who Should We Count as Citizens? Categorizing People in Public Administration Research (2020) (7)
So-Called Experts: How American Consultants Remade the Canadian Civil Service, 1918-1921 (2012) (7)
Transparency in Troubled Times (2012) (7)
The unassailable principle: why luther gulick searched for a science of administration (1998) (7)
The Paradox of Public Sector Reform: Works Better, Trusted Less? (1998) (6)
Transparency in the Security Sector (2007) (6)
The Informational Commons at Risk (2000) (6)
Lockbox Government: Segregated Funding Strategies and the Decline of Governmental Flexibility (2002) (6)
A Sense of Wonder: African Art from the Faletti Family Collection (1998) (6)
The End of Protest: How Free-Market Capitalism Learned to Control Dissent (2016) (6)
“An ungovernable anarchy”: The United States’ response to depression and default, 1837–1848 (2010) (5)
Making Transparency Policies Work: The Critical Role of Trusted Intermediaries (2014) (5)
Building Resilience: Macrodynamic Constraints on Governmental Response to Crises (2009) (5)
Nato, Secrecy, and the Right to Information (2003) (5)
Entangling Alliances: Nato's Security Policy and the Entrenchment of State Secrecy (2002) (5)
The Collapse of Fortress Bush (2022) (5)
Public Works and Government Services: Beautiful Theory Meets Ugly Reality (1996) (4)
What's Wrong with the Intellectual History of Public Administration? (2009) (4)
Post-Reformation Catholic symbolism: further and different examples (1997) (4)
How to bridge East and West (2021) (4)
William McIntosh in the West Highlands: changing the practice of religion (2003) (4)
Issues Associated with the Implementation of Governmentwide Performance Monitoring (2002) (4)
No Simple Fix: Fiscal Rules and the Politics of Austerity (2014) (4)
Missions to the Gaels: Reformation and Counter-Reformation in Ulster and the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, 1560-1760 (review) (2008) (4)
Our Asian challenge (2017) (3)
The Leslies of Balquhain and the Burial of Bishop Hay (1995) (3)
Questions About Policy Transparency (2001) (3)
Democracy by Disclosure: The Rise of Technopopulism by Mary Graham. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2002. 201 pp., $24.95. (2003) (3)
Promoting Fiscal Openness (2015) (3)
Worrying About Misconduct: The Control Lobby and the PS 2000 Reforms (1996) (3)
Orcon Creep: Networked Governance, Information Sharing, and the Threat to Government Accountability (2003) (3)
Factors and Forces (2020) (3)
The Teacher’s Craft: A Study of Teaching in The Primary School, John L. Powell (The Scottish Council for Research in Education, 1985), pp. 260, £13.50 and £8.95 (1985) (3)
The Reform Bubble Bursts (2004) (3)
The Confidence Trap: A History Of Democracy In Crisis From World War I To The Present (2015) (3)
STRUCTURAL PLURALISM AND THE RIGHT TO KNOW (2001) (3)
Globalization and the Growth of Executive Power: An Old Story (2017) (2)
Strategies for Governing: An Approach to Public Management Research for West and East (2018) (2)
Gregor McGregor (1681-1740) and the Highland problem in the Scottish Catholic Mission (1988) (2)
Trapped in a Silicon Cage (2019) (2)
Aspects of Highland and Lowland Catholicism on Deeside (1990) (2)
James Smith and James Gibbs: Seminarians and Architects (1991) (2)
John Gray, André Raffalovich and Father Allan MacDonald of Eriskay (2010) (2)
The Jubilee of Bishop Kyle (2012) (2)
STYLE OF SUBSTANCE? MEDIA PERCEPTIONS OF CLINTON'S ECONOMIC AND TIMBER SUMMITS (1997) (2)
The Secrets of Law (2012) (2)
CATHOLIC MARRIAGE IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY SCOTLAND (1983) (2)
The Nation-State: Not Dead Yet (2015) (2)
Preliminary Analysis of Data Relating to the Processing of Freedom of Information Act Requests Received by the UK Ministry of Defence (2009) (2)
Education and Faith in the Catholic Highlands of Scotland (2005) (2)
Dom Odo Blundell OSB (1868–1943): a different kind of historian (2005) (2)
The Importance of Workplace Research (1993) (1)
Problems of democratic statecraft (2020) (1)
William McIntosh: an Untypical Link between East and West Highland Catholicism (1991) (1)
A Fragile State: Canadian Federal Public Administration in the Twentieth Century (1999) (1)
Scalan destroyed: a Hanoverian perspective (2017) (1)
The Failure of the Guardians: Central Banking Reform and the Financial Crisis (2009) (1)
“Whatever It Takes”: Danger, Necessity, and Realism in American Public Policy (2020) (1)
Chapter Ten. Transparency in the Security Sector (2007) (1)
Unmasking administrative evil: (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1998) by Guy B. Adams and Danny L. Balfour (1999) (1)
CATHOLIC BAPTISMAL REGISTERS IN THE CITY OF ABERDEEN, 1782-1876 (1980) (1)
The Pandemic Exposes an Ailing US Governance Model (2020) (1)
UPSC Examination Papers on Public Administration in India (2019) (1)
A Future of 'Endemic Failure'? Review of 'Why Government Fails So Often' by Peter Schuck (2014) (1)
Is This A Club We Want To Join? Reflections of “Punching below its weight” and “The global relevance of Canadian public administration” (2018) (1)
Conrack, New Leslie and the Suppression of the Catholic North (1997) (1)
Blacked Out: The Corporate Veil (2006) (1)
A Neglected Subject: How Grand Politics Affects Public Administration (2020) (1)
Doubt and deliberation: Making strategy in ontario’s food bank system (2000) (1)
The Limits of “Sensible Centrism” (2014) (1)
Introduction (2020) (0)
Smarter than We Look: Review of 'The Confidence Trap' by David Runciman (2014) (0)
Unexceptionalism (2020) (0)
Friendship, Faith and the Bard MacLean (2022) (0)
An Evidence-Based Approach to Access Reform (Working Paper 22) (2001) (0)
Roger Hutchinson, Father Allan: The Life and Legacy of a Hebridean Priest. Birlinn: Edinburgh, 2010. 210 pp. £9.99 paperback. ISBN 9781841585482 (2011) (0)
Ague and the Chevalier: Another Royal Affliction (2018) (0)
3. The Federal Government’s Crisis (2012) (0)
Debate: The end of the guardians? (2011) (0)
Suitable for Children? Controversies in Childrenʼs Literature, Nicholas Tucker (ed.) (Sussex University Press, 1978) pp. 224, £6 (1979) (0)
Tributes to Michael Barzelay and Joseph Wong (2009) (0)
Fiona A. Macdonald, Missions to the Gaels: Reformation and Counter-Reformation in Ulster and the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, 1560–1760. John Donald: Edinburgh, 2006. xiv + 417 pp. £30 paperback. ISBN 10: 0 85976 681; ISBN 13: 978-0-85976-618-0. (2007) (0)
Future Challenges for the Right to Information (RTI) Movement (Futuros Desafíos Para El Movimiento Por El Derecho De Acceso a La Información) (2007) (0)
Crowd Control: Economic Disruption and the Regulation of Mass Protest (2011) (0)
The French MacDonald: Catholic connections (2011) (0)
Leaders and Their Goals (2020) (0)
Transparency in government (2015) (0)
The Confidence Trap: A History Of Democracy In Crisis From World War I To The Present (2015) (0)
Beyond the Imperial Presidency (2008) (0)
Jesuits in the Highlands: Three Phases (2020) (0)
States and Societies (2020) (0)
2. The States’ Crisis (2012) (0)
Who Is a Citizen? Misclassifying People in Public Administration Research (2020) (0)
John Watts in the Highlands (2009) (0)
Laws, Organizations, Programs, and Practices (2020) (0)
Reinventing Public Administration for a Dangerous Century (2020) (0)
Breaking Democracy's Spell by John Dunn. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2014. 208 pp. $35.00 (cloth). (2015) (0)
Lisa G. Curry, Catholicism and the Clan MacDonell of Glengarry: Religion and Politics in the Highlands of Scotland, 1650–1750. The Edwin Mellen Press: Lewiston, New York, 2007. vi + 266 pp. £69.95 hardback. ISBN 10 0 7734 5233 8 (2009) (0)
Why Government Fails So Often: And How It Can Do Better , by Peter H. Schuck , Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2014 , 471 pp., $27.95, hardback, ISBN 9780691161624 (2015) (0)
Whisky And Priests In The Highlands (2004) (0)
Aspects of Institutional Stewardship (2020) (0)
Migration: The Real Challenges. Review of 'Exodus' by Paul Collier. (2014) (0)
Strategy at the State Level (2020) (0)
The People in the Playground, Iona Opie (Oxford University Press, 1993), pp. ix + 240, £15.95 (1993) (0)
Treasury Power and Fiscal Rule (2010) (0)
Moidart; or Among the Clanranalds Charles Macdonald. Pp. xx + 269. Edinburgh: The Mercat Press, 1989. £15.95. (1991) (0)
Extensions Under the Access to Information Act (2004) (0)
Open Secrets and Dirty Hands (2011) (0)
Blind Men and an Elephant: Three Partial Views of Public Administration (2016) (0)
Research (2020) (0)
Systems of survival: A dialogue on the moral foundations of commerce and politics, by Jane Jacobs. New York: Random House, 1992, 236 pp., $22.00 cloth (1994) (0)
Harris' Mirage: The Positive Service State (2010) (0)
Power in Modern Russia: Strategy and Mobilisation. Andrew Monaghan. Manchester University Press, Manchester, England, 2017. 104 pp. $11.95 (paper) (2018) (0)
Rethinking Democratic Acccountability by Robert D. Behn (2002) (0)
Alexander Macdonell: the Scottish Years, 1762—1804 Kathleen M. Toomey Pp. xi, 189. The Canadian Catholic Historical Association, Toronto, 1985, £5.00 (1988) (0)
Ontario ’ s Freedom of Information Law : Assessing the Impact of the Harris Government Reforms May 1999 (1999) (0)
Exploring the Tangled Web of Proxy Government (2012) (0)
Catholic Secondary Education in South-West Scotland Before 1972, T. A. Fitzpatrick (Aberdeen University Press, 1986) pp. xiii + 221, £12.50 (1986) (0)
Migration: The Real Challenges (2014) (0)
Secrecy and Security (2006) (0)
Four Crises of Democracy: Representation, Mastery, Discipline, Anticipation (2015) (0)
Case Studies in Innovation at FEMA, NASA, OSHA and the FDA (1998) (0)
Containing the Outrage: How Police Power Tames the Occupy Movement (2011) (0)
Managing Fiscal Squeeze after the United States’ Panic of 1837 (2014) (0)
PATTERNS OF WORK WITHIN GOVERNMENT AGENCIES: ANALYSIS USING ERDMS METADATA (2005) (0)
Practice (2020) (0)
Reviving the Progressive Spirit of Public Administration (2017) (0)
A Poorly Designed Solution for a Misdiagnosed Problem (2009) (0)
Summary of Propositions (2020) (0)
Accounting for results, 1997; Government-wide performance plan, fiscal year 1999 (1999) (0)
Challenges in Strategy-Making (2020) (0)
What Can We Learn from Empires: Review of 'Visions of Empire' by Krishnan Kumar (2018) (0)
Conclusion (2020) (0)
5. The End of the Crisis (2012) (0)
Bureaucracy and self‐government and the spirit of public administration (1998) (0)
The Informational Commons at Risk (Working Paper 8) (2000) (0)
Democracy: The New Opiate of the Masses? Review of John Dunn, 'Breaking Democracy's Spell' (2014) (0)
How American Democracy Learns from Crisis (КАК АМЕРИКАНСКАЯ ДЕМОКРАТИЯ УЧИТСЯ НА КРИЗИСАХ) (2015) (0)
Acknowledging the State (2020) (0)
Paul Maclachlan and the Ironmaster: A Case Study in Controversya (2008) (0)
Abolishing India's Planning Commission: The Results After Five Years (2020) (0)
Krishan Kumar,Visions of Empire: How Five Imperial Regimes Shaped the World(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2017). 600 pp. $39.50 (hardback), ISBN: 9780691153636 (2019) (0)
The Slow Death of the Overload Thesis: Review of 'The Fourth Revolution' by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge. (2014) (0)
Teaching (2020) (0)
Review of 'Tocqueville's Nightmare: The Administrative State Emerges in America, 1900-1940' (2014) (0)
Conclusion: Freedom, Order, and Economic Crisis (2017) (0)
The Myth of Institutional Rigidity (2015) (0)
The Limits of Sensible Centrism: Review of 'It's Even Worse Than It Looks' by Mann and Ornstein (2014) (0)
Kurlantzick, J. (2013). Democracy in Retreat: The Revolt of the Middle Class and the Worldwide Decline of Representative Government. New Haven: Yale University Press. (2015) (0)
Constraints on the U.S. Response to the 9/11 Attacks (2006) (0)
How Railroads Changed American Government (2013) (0)
Bearing the White Man's Burden: American Empire and the Origin of Public Administration (2019) (0)
Studies in Pre-School Education, M. M. Clark and W. M. Cheyne (Eds.) (Hodder and Stoughton for SCRE, 1979), pp. 292, £5.95 (1980) (0)
Book Review: Democracy in Retreat: The Revolt of the Middle Class and the Worldwide Decline of Representative Government. By Joshua Kurlantzick. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013. (2014) (0)
Book Reviews (2003) (0)
How American Law Adapted to the Administrative State (2015) (0)
Danger, Strategic Fragility, and Realism (2020) (0)

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