Feb 5
I discussed my recent article in Perspectives on Public Management and Governance with Justin Bullock and Nathan Favreau as part of their new series of Facebook interviews. Video here. Link to the article: The Aims of Public Administration: Reviving the Classical View.
My interview with Dave Levine about my book Four Crises of American Democracy is now available here. The interview was originally broadcast on the KZSU-FM show Hearsay Culture in May 2017.
I’ll be talking about my forthcoming book from Polity Books, Can Government Do Anything Right?, at the Truman School of Public Affairs on January 25. Details here. Powerpoint for presentation here.
I’ve posted a working paper on SSRN: Strategies for Governing: An Approach to Public Management Research for West and East. I will present this paper at the BK21 research workshop on January 11-13, 2018, sponsored by the Graduate School of Public Administration (GSPA) of Seoul National University and the Research for Government hub at SDA Bocconi School of Management. The Powerpoint slides for the presentation are here. The presentation will also refer to my recent article in Perspectives in Public Management and Governance. (Audio of my January 11 presentation is available here.)
An excerpt from my book Can Government Do Anything Right? can be downloaded here. The book will be published in 2018. Pre-order on Amazon.
The White Coat Investor reviews my book America’s First Great Depression. “The book is a fascinating study of a difficult time in American financial history and I cannot recommend it enough.” Read the review.
Back cover for “Can Government Do Anything Right?”, to be published by Polity Books in 2018.
I’ve recorded a short interview with the Centre for Public Impact about my forthcoming book from Polity, Can Government Do Anything Right?. Listen to the interview here. I also talk about transparency in trust in government.
Can Government Do Anything Right? (Polity, 2018) is now available for pre-order on Amazon.
Bob Cox and I will conclude our terms as co-editors of Governance at the end of 2017. Each of us have written close-out commentaries. Mine is titled “Our Asian challenge.” The PDF of the commentary can be downloaded here.
Alasdair S. Roberts 
