Patricia Strach
@patriciastrach.bsky.social
Professor of political science and public administration and policy. Loves state and local politics.
@kathlsullivan.bsky.social observed that corruption is often so petty. The 19th c machine boss in Pittsburgh wanted train tickets, shoelaces. Nothing's too big or too small.
August 15, 2025 at 7:00 PM
@kathlsullivan.bsky.social observed that corruption is often so petty. The 19th c machine boss in Pittsburgh wanted train tickets, shoelaces. Nothing's too big or too small.
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Thanks for the insights @askellyphd.bsky.social, @patriciastrach.bsky.social, Nátalia de Paula Moreira, Sarah Gollust, Didi Kuo, Holly Jarman, Kathleen Sullivan, and Charley Willison.
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The Local Politics of Public Health — Urban Affairs Review
A podcast miniseries featuring the authors of the UAR symposium on the relationship between local politics and public health.
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August 15, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Thanks for the insights @askellyphd.bsky.social, @patriciastrach.bsky.social, Nátalia de Paula Moreira, Sarah Gollust, Didi Kuo, Holly Jarman, Kathleen Sullivan, and Charley Willison.
Listen for more:
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Excerpt from a 2023 interview and the NYT story on Adams's plan for PWUD.
PWUD: Because a lot of people just look at it like you're a junkie...I'm still a human being.
Me: Do you think people don't see you as a human being?
PWUD: Not like – in active addiction, no.
PWUD: Because a lot of people just look at it like you're a junkie...I'm still a human being.
Me: Do you think people don't see you as a human being?
PWUD: Not like – in active addiction, no.
August 15, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Excerpt from a 2023 interview and the NYT story on Adams's plan for PWUD.
PWUD: Because a lot of people just look at it like you're a junkie...I'm still a human being.
Me: Do you think people don't see you as a human being?
PWUD: Not like – in active addiction, no.
PWUD: Because a lot of people just look at it like you're a junkie...I'm still a human being.
Me: Do you think people don't see you as a human being?
PWUD: Not like – in active addiction, no.
Racism, COVID, garbage, mosquitoes? Politics is all around us in the biggest and smallest things. Check it out!
🎧🎧🎧 UAR Remixed is BACK! Tune in to hear Part 1 of our miniseries with the authors of the new symposium on the Local Politics of Public Health, streaming on all major platforms!
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The Local Politics of Public Health — Urban Affairs Review
A podcast miniseries featuring the authors of the UAR symposium on the relationship between local politics and public health.
www.urbanaffairsreview.com
June 25, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Racism, COVID, garbage, mosquitoes? Politics is all around us in the biggest and smallest things. Check it out!
This is such a neat paper to teach. The smallest things have the biggest impact on our lives, and it’s political.
"Draining the Swamp: The Local Governance of Mosquito Borne Diseases in Florida" by @hjarman.bsky.social Phillip Singer, Iris Holmes, Jessica Hsu, Chloe Harper, Naquia Unwala, and @charleywillison.bsky.social
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May 13, 2025 at 5:26 PM
This is such a neat paper to teach. The smallest things have the biggest impact on our lives, and it’s political.
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@kathlsullivan.bsky.social & @patriciastrach.bsky.social examine the political development of sanitation workers seeking power in public health agencies in the late nineteenth century, and the implications for public health and inequality. doi.org/10.1177/1078...
Ideas, Municipal Sanitation, and the Transformation of Public Health - Kathleen S. Sullivan, Patricia Strach, 2025
The transition from private, individual garbage disposal practices to public responsibility for sanitation marked a durable shift in governing authority, which ...
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May 13, 2025 at 12:17 AM
@kathlsullivan.bsky.social & @patriciastrach.bsky.social examine the political development of sanitation workers seeking power in public health agencies in the late nineteenth century, and the implications for public health and inequality. doi.org/10.1177/1078...
Some great presentations by our undergraduates—Carter and Avi pictured here—for Showcase 2025!
May 1, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Some great presentations by our undergraduates—Carter and Avi pictured here—for Showcase 2025!
Good news is always welcome! Thanks, Rock Inst!
Never too late to post good news. Congrats to @patriciastrach.bsky.social & @kathlsullivan.bsky.social for winning the Dennis Judd Best Book Award last fall for their book The Politics of Trash!
Check out their interview with Policy Outsider: rockinst.org/issue-area/ep-79-the-politics-of-trash/
Check out their interview with Policy Outsider: rockinst.org/issue-area/ep-79-the-politics-of-trash/
March 7, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Good news is always welcome! Thanks, Rock Inst!
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This was YEARS in the making but my first solo authored publication is out. I do more than rant on social media. I also study situational trust! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Cooperating through distrust: seeking remedies to state and community violence
This article focuses on a crucial issue in Black politics: the spectrum of trust. Building on Monica Bell’s theory of situational trust, I explain how community members in three South Side Chicago ...
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February 20, 2025 at 12:21 PM
This was YEARS in the making but my first solo authored publication is out. I do more than rant on social media. I also study situational trust! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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It's now 5 p.m., four days after the department's leadership ordered prosecutors to drop the Eric Adams case. Nobody has filed the motion to dismiss, or filed a notice of appearance on the docket.
February 14, 2025 at 10:03 PM
It's now 5 p.m., four days after the department's leadership ordered prosecutors to drop the Eric Adams case. Nobody has filed the motion to dismiss, or filed a notice of appearance on the docket.
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House GOP Eyeing Cuts of Nearly One-Third in Projected #Medicaid Spending - see quick explainer putting $2.3 trillion in context. www.kff.org/quick-take/h...
House GOP Eyeing Cuts of Nearly One-Third in Projected Medicaid Spending
House Republicans are considering deficit reductions of $5.5 trillion, which includes $2.3 trillion cuts in Medicaid… Cuts of this magnitude would put states at financial risk, forcing them to raise n...
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January 13, 2025 at 9:20 PM
House GOP Eyeing Cuts of Nearly One-Third in Projected #Medicaid Spending - see quick explainer putting $2.3 trillion in context. www.kff.org/quick-take/h...
What will they do with studies that are not replicable? Or, are those not welcome?
I have seen dozens of replications accompanied by thousands of comments on social media berating the authors, discrediting them, etc.
What APSR intends their replication process to be may not be what it is used by other parties outside of the journal model. Fair warning: humans are usually horrible
What APSR intends their replication process to be may not be what it is used by other parties outside of the journal model. Fair warning: humans are usually horrible
December 5, 2024 at 3:06 PM
What will they do with studies that are not replicable? Or, are those not welcome?
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Big win for Team Oxford Comma
November 21, 2024 at 6:04 PM
Big win for Team Oxford Comma
New article out on political learning by policy implementors with @lisiperezchiques.bsky.social & Katie Zuber.
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Although the literature on political learning has examined the effect of policy on clients and some proximate individuals (family, friends, and community members), it has not examined the effect on p....
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November 19, 2024 at 12:34 AM
New article out on political learning by policy implementors with @lisiperezchiques.bsky.social & Katie Zuber.
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Important work on corruption coming out of CIDE by @lisiperezchiques.bsky.social and Oliver Meza and a really great panel event!
November 19, 2024 at 12:21 AM
Important work on corruption coming out of CIDE by @lisiperezchiques.bsky.social and Oliver Meza and a really great panel event!
UAlbany undergrads presenting their research on NYC bike lanes (Emmett) and green energy initiatives (Rachel) at today’s showcase.
May 1, 2024 at 12:48 AM
UAlbany undergrads presenting their research on NYC bike lanes (Emmett) and green energy initiatives (Rachel) at today’s showcase.
Our new podcast with Relevant or Irrelevant is out! Of course, because it's on trash, it's got be relevant. So much good dirt in this one.
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Dr. Patricia Strach - The Politics Of Trash - ROI 549 - Full Program
Dr. Patricia Strach, professor and undergraduate director in the Department Of Political Science at the University Of Albany, joins the "ROI" panelists to talk about, "The Politics Of Trash: How Gove
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March 6, 2024 at 7:01 PM
Our new podcast with Relevant or Irrelevant is out! Of course, because it's on trash, it's got be relevant. So much good dirt in this one.
soundcloud.com/kalaradio/ro...
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Four UAlbany students accepted to the CLPS fellowship!
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January 29, 2024 at 8:13 PM
Four UAlbany students accepted to the CLPS fellowship!
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We are hiring a one-year Visiting American Politics Professor at Montana State. 3-3 load, some advising. Apply here: jobs.montana.edu/postings/39746 . Reviewing applications in two weeks--job open until filled. polisky
January 25, 2024 at 12:43 AM
We are hiring a one-year Visiting American Politics Professor at Montana State. 3-3 load, some advising. Apply here: jobs.montana.edu/postings/39746 . Reviewing applications in two weeks--job open until filled. polisky
It's always a good time talking about trash with @kathlsullivan.bsky.social and @gorenlj.bsky.social.
Have a listen!
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Have a listen!
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Podcast | Patricia Strach and Kathleen S. Sullivan, "The Politics of…
Subscribe for free. Patricia Strach and Kathleen S. Sullivan, "The Politics of Trash: How Governments Used Corruption to Clean Cities, 1890–1929" (Cornell UP, 2023)
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January 18, 2024 at 5:38 PM
It's always a good time talking about trash with @kathlsullivan.bsky.social and @gorenlj.bsky.social.
Have a listen!
newbooksnetwork.com/the-politics...
Have a listen!
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Reposted by Patricia Strach
Had a great conversation with @patriciastrach.bsky.social and Kathleen S. Sullivan about the politics of trash. This is a fascinating book! Stay tuned 🎙️for the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast on the Political Science channel.
January 5, 2024 at 8:44 PM
Had a great conversation with @patriciastrach.bsky.social and Kathleen S. Sullivan about the politics of trash. This is a fascinating book! Stay tuned 🎙️for the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast on the Political Science channel.
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New York Closed Psych Beds for Youth in Crisis. Now, Foster Care Programs and Host Towns Are Being Pushed to the Limit.
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New York Closed Psych Beds for Youth in Crisis. Now, Foster Care Programs and Host Towns Are Being P...
Bucolic Pleasantville, N.Y., is seeing a showdown between leaders of a century-old children’s residence unequipped to treat acute mental health challenges and locals tired of troubled young people d...
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January 3, 2024 at 1:44 PM
New York Closed Psych Beds for Youth in Crisis. Now, Foster Care Programs and Host Towns Are Being Pushed to the Limit.
www.propublica.org/article/plea...
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