Alasdair Roberts is Director of the School of Public Policy at University of Massachusetts Amherst, and a professor of political science and public policy.

Professor Roberts writes on problems of public administration, law and public policy. His latest book is Can Government Do Anything Right?, forthcoming from Polity Books in 2018. His previous book, Four Crises of American Democracy, was published by Oxford University Press in 2017. He has written five other books, including Blacked Out: Government Secrecy in the Information Age (Cambridge University Press, 2006). He has received several awards for his writing, including the Brownlow Book Award from the National Academy of Public Administration.