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Patricia Strach
@patriciastrach.bsky.social
Professor of political science and public administration and policy. Loves state and local politics.
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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
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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
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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
Most foul-smelling city on earth? Now that's a quote worth finding. So many cities could lay to being the dirtiest and smelliest at this time, though I find the description of New Orleans as the filthiest hole in the land to be particularly unforgettable.
March 28, 2024 at 8:43 PM