Alasdair S. Roberts

Aug 20

Interview for Public Radio’s BackStory, on policing in America

Public Radio’s Backstory has just rebroadcast a show that includes a discussion between me and Peter Onuf of the University of Virginia on the development of policing in the United States. The interview drew on work from America’s First Great Depression and The End of Protest. Listen to BackStory’s show on policing in America. My interview begins at the fifteen-minute mark. My segment is titled “Running the riot.”

Jul 31

RFI story on WikiLeaks

I’m quoted in a July 29 story by Radio France Internationale on WikiLeaks. Read the story. I provided a skeptical view about WikiLeaks’ impact in a 2011 article in the Wilson Quarterly, The WikiLeaks Illusion. Read the 2011 article. A longer academic version of that article also appeared in the International Review of Administrative Sciences in 2012. Read the 2012 article.

Jul 19

Keynote address at conference on democratic governance

I gave the keynote address at the 3rd International Conference on Democratic Governance in the Developing World in Washington, DC on July 19. My topic was “One world: Building a single body of knowledge for statecraft.” Listen to the address here | Overview of the conference here.

Jul 17

Technology for Accountability Lab

Screen Shot 2016-03-24 at 4.38.19 PM I’ll be a presenter in the Technology for Accountability Lab that will be hosted this summer by Stanford University’s Center on Democracy, Development, and Rule of Law. Details here.

Jul 13

Conversation on KFRU about “Four Crises of American Democracy”

CnQFzYKUkAATTiS.jpg-large I spoke with David Lile on KFRU Radio about Four Crises of American Democracy this morning. Listen to the conversation here.

Jul 9

Article in St. Louis Post-Dispatch on “Four Crises”

Screen Shot 2016-07-09 at 7.54.35 PM There’s an article by Chuck Raasch in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch about my forthcoming book, Four Crises of American Democracy. Read the article online | Read as PDF.

Jul 6

News release about “Four Crises of American Democracy”

Mizzou’s News Bureau has posted a news release about Four Crises of American Democracy. Read the release.

Jun 30

Video about Four Crises of American Democracy

A short video about my book Four Crises of American Democracy has been posted on the University of Missouri’s YouTube channel. Watch the video.

Jun 14

Panel at PMRC 2016 at Aarhus University

I participated in the special session, “Is public management neglecting the state?”, at the 2016 Public Management Research Conference at Aarhus University on June 24. The paper prepared by panelists can be downloaded here.