May 5
I’ll participate in a webinar hosted by the University of Victoria’ School of Public Administration on May 7. Details here. I will talk about my new book, Strategies for Governing. The Powerpoint slides for the presentation are here.
I’ll give a presentation on strategies for governing to the Defense and Strategic Studies Course at the Australian War College on March 12, 2020. My slides are here.
I will participate in a panel for the International Seminar on Democracy and Public Policy in India on February 27. The seminar is hosted by the Department of Political Science at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. My topic is “Governing supersized countries.” My Powerpoint is here. Seminar program here.
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spoke with ninety officers of the Indian Administrative Service at Syracuse University’s Lubin House in New York City on November 15. The subject was strategies for governing in superstates. PPT here.
Strategies for Governing: Reinventing Public Administration for a Dangerous Century was published by Cornell University Press on December 15. Order on Amazon. There is a 30% discount for orders through the Press: details here. Comments on the book here. Excerpt here.
I’ll give a talk on my book Strategies for Governing for the global Health & Public Service team at Accenture Research on June 19. Powerpoint slides for the talk are here. The book can be ordered here.
Comment from Donald Kettl of the LBJ School of Public Affairs on Strategies for Governing (Cornell University Press, December 2019): “Alasdair Roberts is one of the most thoughtful scholars working in public administration today, and Strategies for Governing is an important and challenging book. It will be an instant classic—a must-read for established researchers and budding scholars.”
Mary Guy of the University of Colorado-Denver: “Just in time, Alasdair Roberts makes a provocative argument urging public administration to return to basics! Strategies for Governing rediscovers the field’s roots and describes a conceptual and practical route back to relevance in public life.”
Evert Lindquist, School of Public Administration, University of Victoria: “Written before the COVID-19 epidemic struck, Alasdair Roberts’ Strategies for Governing is a remarkable book for these disconcerting times. Roberts calls for reinvigoration of public administration research and debate about the overall priorities and structure of our public administration systems, arguing that scholars have focused too much on specific public management challenges over the last thirty years. Like the progenitors of the scholarly field of public administration, he asks us to think about designing macro governing strategies for the grand challenges we will face over the next decade and beyond.”
Richard Callahan, University of San Francisco: “Strategies for Governing engages the readers in the big questions of the practice and study of public administration, breaking new ground in connecting strategy with governance. Roberts crafts a compelling argument for connecting public administration to its founding values and questions as a way of moving forward in this century.”
Review by Chet Newland, University of Southern California, in the American Review of Public Administration: “Roberts succinctly makes a timely case in favor of large concerns about governing . . . While dealing with currently urgent realities of the field, the analysis makes a contribution to last.”
My next book, presently titled Strategies for Governing: A New Direction for Public Administration, is now forthcoming from Cornell University Press, aiming for December 2019. A summary of the book is available here.
Thanks to the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis and NASPAA for the 2018 Award for Best Comparative Pedagogy Project, for the Strategies for Governing course that I taught within the School of Public Policy last summer. Left: Professor Nadia Rubaii presents the award. More information about the course here.
My Strategies for Governing project is noted on the Bookforum website.
