Mar 23
Today’s Toronto Globe and Mail includes an editorial commenting on my article about WikiLeaks in the current issue of International Review of Administrative Sciences. Says the G&M: “WikiLeaks did not transform the political world.” Also a story in the Times of India. There is also a March 28 interview about the article on the Miller-McCune website.
Brooke Gladstone of NPR’s On the Media spoke at the Rappaport Center about her book, The Influencing Machine, and the role of media in politics. The event was co-sponsored with Suffolk Law’s Media Law Group. Photo left to right: Greg Massing, the Center’s Executive Director; Austra Zubkovs, the Center’s communications coordinator; Brooke Gladstone; and Sarah Nashat of the Media Law Group.
The Echoes Blog on Bloomberg.com has just posted my short piece marking the seventy-fifth anniversary of FDR’s proposals to renovate the executive branch and Supreme Court. Some critics called it the “dictatorship plan.” I covered some of this history in articles published a few years back.
Richard Sylla, Henry Kaufman Professor of the History of Financial Institutions and Markets, New York University, has contributed a comment on America’s First Great Depression: “Alasdair Roberts’s poignant yet balanced account of the financial, economic, and political crises of the 1830s and 1840s provides us with a distant mirror reflecting our current travails. By not knowing and learning from history, we continue to make the same mistakes our ancestors did. If you want to complete your education, America’s First Great Depression is a good place to begin.”
The Rappaport Center hosted a lunch roundtable on the policing of the Occupy protests at Suffolk Law today. The lead speaker was Professor Alex Vitale of Brooklyn College, who discussed the policing strategies of ten major US cities. Comments were provided by Boston PD Superintendent in Chief Dan Linskey and attorney Ben Wish of Todd & Weld. The roundtable series is supported by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts. Read a story about this event.
Professor Claude Rochet has published a commentary on The Logic of Discipline in the latest issue of Revue française d’administration publique. Claude is also the author of Politiques publiques: de la stratégie aux résultats (De Boeck, 2010).
The first student commentary produced for the Spring 2012 Rappaport Briefing is now available on rappaportbriefing.net. Written by Eva Shell, the commentary examines challenges in serving English language learners in Massachusetts. The commentaries are based on research papers written by students for my Law and Public Policy class in Fall 2011.
The March 2012 newsletter for Governance is now available.
Steve Coulter, Senior Economics and Business Analyst for BBC News, has just published a review of The Logic of Discipline. Says Coulter: “Roberts presents a clear and persuasive analysis of the technocratic turn in public policy since the 1990s. The Logic of Discipline provides a convincing and surprisingly readable assault on Public Choice economics.”
Wilson Quarterly has just posted a brief Q&A about America’s First Great Depression with assistant editor Cullen Nutt.
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