Alasdair Roberts
Professor of Public Policy, University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Four phases of American empire
This note is background for a panel discussion on “The Boomerang Effect in American Imperial Administration” on November 13, part of the Symposium on Imperial Administration at the 2025 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Legal Histo...
The US and Canada: Two crises of federalism
This note is background for a panel discussion at the Canadian Studies Program of UC Berkeley on November 4. My co-panelist will be Professor Evert Lindquist. A version of this column was also published in The Walrus on October 27. Comments...
How NASPAA sought to have my work retracted from publication
Updates on this piece, September 2026:
- I say below that “an administrator at a US university” contacted NASPAA on February 10, 2025. Public records requests show that it was an administrator at University of Massachusetts Amherst. Read...
Someone wanted my NASPAA article removed from publication.
Updates, September 2026:
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In October 2025, I wrote a follow-up piece based on documents released under public records law, showing that NASPAA had been the complainant in this case. Read more about that here.
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The complaint was mad...
The crisis of design in American government
This is the introduction for a paper that I wrote as background for the 2025 Levine Memorial Lecture at American University. The final version of the paper was published in the Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration in June 2025: Rea...
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