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• Winner of Section on Public Administration Research of the American Society of Public Administration (ASPA) aka SPAR Book Award 2020 (United States)

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Just in time, Alasdair Roberts makes a provocative argument urging public administration to return to basics! Strategies for Governing rediscovers the field's roots and describes a conceptual and practical route back to relevance in public life. -- Mary E. Guy, University of Colorado-Denver, author of Essentials of Public Service Alasdair Roberts is one of the most thoughtful scholars working in public administration today, and Strategies for Governing is an important and challenging book. It will be an instant classic-a must-read for established researchers and budding scholars. -- Donald F. Kettl, University of Texas at Austin, author of <I>The Politics of the Administrative Process, 7th Edition</I>

Overall, Strategies for Governing has broad implications for research, teaching, and practice in a variety of disciplines and subfields. The book's insights provide readers with fresh perspectives on important research questions in public administration, public policy, American politics, international relations, and comparative politics. Perhaps most notably, Roberts encourages us to return to first principles and to address the 'what' and 'how' of government. * Perspectives on Politics * Roberts has nudged us in the right direction to reawaken why public administration... is a field uniquely situated to link theory and practice at a macro-societal level... On that point alone, we all owe Roberts a great intellectual debt. * Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory * This is a thought-provoking book, one that deserves the attention of everyone in the field of public administration * Teaching Public Administration * Roberts succinctly makes a timely case in favor of large concerns about governing... While dealing with currently urgent realities of the field, the analysis makes a contribution to last. * American Review of Public Administration * Strategies for Governing has broad implications for research, teaching, and practice in a variety of disciplines and subfields. The book's insights provide readers with fresh perspectives on important research questions in public administration, public policy, American politics, international relations, and comparative politics. Perhaps most notably, Roberts encourages us to return to first principles and to address the 'what' and 'how' of government. * Perspectives on Politics * Roberts is masterful at distilling complex concepts into a digestible format, through which both new students and senior scholars can engage and argue. The book provides an opportunity to have a critical conversation about the boundaries of Public Administration. * Governance * The argument's timeliness is uncanny, given the COVID19 pandemic, police violence, and racism plaguing the nation today... Roberts's book is a real bottomless well of research ideas ready to be pursued by scholars, especially junior ones. The book would also be useful for directors of graduate programs in PA interested in equipping students with the mindset and tools to address the big picture. * POLITICAL SCIENCE QUARTERLY *

Alasdair Roberts is one of the most thoughtful scholars working in public administration today, and Strategies for Governing is an important and challenging book. It will be an instant classic-a must-read for established researchers and budding scholars. -- Donald F. Kettl, University of Texas at Austin, author of <I>The Politics of the Administrative Process, 7th Edition</I> Just in time, Alasdair Roberts makes a provocative argument urging public administration to return to basics! Strategies for Governing rediscovers the field's roots and describes a conceptual and practical route back to relevance in public life. -- Mary E. Guy, University of Colorado-Denver, author of Essentials of Public Service

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Alasdair Roberts is Director of the School of Public Policy and Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is author of America's First Great Depression and The End of Protest. Follow him on X @alasdairroberts.

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