Talk at Queen’s University
I’ll talk to the POLS110 course at Queen’s University, Introduction to Politics and Government, on March 20. The subject will be my 2018 book Can Government Do Anything Right?
Jan 5
Talk to BK21 conference: Should we defend the administrative state?
I’ll give a presentation on my paper, “Should we defend the administrative state?” at the GMU-SNU BK21 2020 Conference in Washington DC on February 6, 2020. Paper here. Powerpoint here. The conference is organized by the Graduate School of Public Affairs at Seoul National University and the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. Details about the conference here.
Talk at Copenhagen Business School
I’ll give a presentation on strategies for governing at the Copenhagen Business School on March 11, 2020.
Translation of “America’s First Great Depression”
A Chinese translation of America’s First Great Depression: Economic Crisis and Political Disorder after the Panic of 1837 from Cornell University Press is now available from SDX Publishing. On Amazon.
Presentation to IAS officers in New York
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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.
Presentation on Indian civil service examinations at NASPAA
I presented a paper co-authored with Aroon Manoharan at NASPAA’s October conference. The paper describes questions relating to public administration posed within India’s main civil service examination over the past decade. The paper is here. The Powerpoint deck is here.
Talk at University of Arizona
I’ll visit the School of Government and Public Policy at the University of Arizona on October 14 to talk to the doctoral seminar on the history of organizational thought. I’ll talk about my recent articles “Shaking hands with Hitler” and “Bearing the White Man’s Burden.”
“Strategies for Governing” now available
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.
NECoPA presentation: Should we defend the administrative state?
I’ll give a presentation at the 2019 Northeast Conference on Public Administration on my working paper: “Should we defend the administrative state?” The paper is available on SSRN. The Powerpoint for the presentation is here. Details about the conference, to be held in Brooklyn on November 8-10, are here. Below: excerpt from the Chicago Sun-Times, October 1948.
AOM PNP doctoral student consortium
I’m looking forward to contributing to the upcoming doctoral student professional development consortium, organized by the Public and Nonprofit Division of the Academy of Management. The meeting will be held on August 10 in Boston. More information here.
Alasdair S. Roberts 
