Patricia Strach
Biographic Data
| ID | 4035997 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patricia Strach |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patricia |
| FAMILY NAME | Strach |
| SIGNATURE | STRACH P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Albany State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8397-143X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 99 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Competing Issue Publics in the Opioid Epidemic: Implications for Public Policy
Public perception matters for policy outcomes. Most research finds that, in contrast to past drug waves, the public views the contemporary opioid epidemic as a medical rather than criminal justice issue, although a smaller body of research suggests that criminal justice frameworks persist. We know less, however, about how issue publics with direct experience—who are more likely to take action and have the ear of policy makers—understand it. How d…
Ideas, Municipal Sanitation, and the Transformation of Public Health
The transition from private, individual garbage disposal practices to public responsibility for sanitation marked a durable shift in governing authority, which advanced local governments’ control over public health at the same time it transformed public health outcomes in American cities. How did political actors at the time advocate for, win, and maintain cities’ public health authority and capacity? We show the development of municipal garbage …
Sanitarians, Public Good, and Power: Generating Tolerance for Garbage Disposal Plants, 1896-1910
The passage of municipal garbage collection ordinances across the United States in the 1890s promoted public health, but garbage disposal plants themselves generated noxious odors that presented a nuisance to nearby residents. This article relies on Pittsburgh’s and Columbus’s experiences with garbage collection to identify the power that local governments—whether machine or reform—wielded in responding to challenges to their municipal garbage co…
The Tradeoff Between Corruption and Capacity: The Case of Nineteenth Century St. Louis and Pittsburgh
Learning by proxy: How burdensome policies shape policy implementors' views of government
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 professionals who implement programs. What lessons do professionals learn from implementing nominally positive (care) services for negatively constructed populations, and how do they learn them? Drawing on interviews, focus groups, and participant obse…
Trickle-Down Burdens: The Effect of Provider Burdens on Clients’ Experience
Administrative burden research disproportionately examines micro-level burdens on clients claiming benefits from public agencies. Yet we know little about meso-level burdens on third-party providers making up the submerged state—private actors working on behalf of a public purpose—and what effect these burdens have on services. We draw on interviews, participant observation, and focus groups with substance-use disorder service providers to map pr…
Competing Emergencies: A Policy Analysis of the Opioid Epidemic during Covid-19
The response to COVID-19 brought rapid policy change to substance-use services in the US and redefined its street-level bureaucrats (SLBs) as essential workers. What effect did policy changes have on SLB discretion and roles? This article examines policies prior to and after the onset of the pandemic and analyzes the implications for practice through interviews with managerial and executive staff in the substance-use field in New York State. In g…
A Policy Paradox: Response to Theodora Ooms
It's hard to look at the 2018 family separation policies of the U.S. federal government (and ensuing uproar) at the border with Mexico and not think that family policy should play a key role in American politics. But it doesn't. As Ooms argues in her masterful recounting of the history of family policy, the field has made major advances, but family policy remains largely unknown and undervalued by academics, policymakers, media, and the general p…
The Garbage Problem: Corruption, Innovation, and Capacity in Four American Cities, 1890–1940
While American political development scholars tend to focus on national or state-level politics, late nineteenth-century cities provided the lion's share of services: clean water, paved and lighted streets, and sanitation. How did cities innovate and build municipal capacity to do these things? We answer this question by looking at municipal responses to the garbage problem. As cities grew and trash piled up in the 1890s, cities explored ways to …
What’s Wrong with Us? Sexual Misconduct and the Discipline of Political Science
Sexual misconduct matters not only when it is perpetuated by political actors in political institutions. It matters wherever it happens and whomever it happens to, because it is, at its base, political. Politics is fundamentally about power: who gets what, when, and how. As political scientists it should be at the heart of what we study, but it isn’t. Our discipline creates artificial (and somewhat arbitrary) boundaries about which studies of pol…
When Bad Policy Makes Good Politics
The Effects of Men’s and Women’s Voices in Political Advertising
Campaigns disproportionately choose men to voice their political ads, but it is not clear that men’s voices are more credible or better able to persuade an audience. We employ experimental data and novel survey data to test theoretical expectations about the circumstances under which men’s and women’s voices might be more or less effective, specifically looking at how gender association of the ad issues and gender of the message recipient shape t…
Dirty Politics: Public Employees, Private Contractors, and the Development of Nineteenth-Century Trash Collection in Pittsburgh and New Orleans
Nineteenth-century Pittsburgh and New Orleans were a mess: trash filled the streets impeding travel, hindering commerce, and spreading disease. City officials in Pittsburgh turned to private contractors to collect trash at public expense while in New Orleans they relied on city employees (through the mechanism of widows carts). Like Pittsburgh and New Orleans, nineteenth-century cities faced a mounting garbage problem and, like Pittsburgh, northe…
In a Different Voice? Explaining the Use of Men and Women as Voice-Over Announcers in Political Advertising
We draw on a comprehensive database of American political advertising and television audience profile data to investigate the ways in which gender influences choices about the use of voice-overs in political advertising. Our findings suggest that although men voice the vast majority of political ads, campaigns do strategically choose the sex of the voice-over announcer and that it systematically varies with candidate characteristics, ad tone, and…
Gender practice as political practice: Cancer, culture, and identity
In the early 1990s, breast cancer activists scored major political victories: they formed a powerful new interest group, attracted attention from President Clinton, and secured allies in Congress w
The State(s) of Health: Federalism and the Implementation of Health Reform in the Context of HIV Care
Although the federal government will finance most of the coverage expansions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), implementation is largely devolved to states. Drawing from interviews with HIV policy experts and program managers and a documents review, the authors enumerate actions that must occur at multiple levels of government in order for ACA implementation in the context of HIV care to improve access to health care and he…
Campaigning for Congress in the “9/11” Era: Considerations of Gender and Party in Response to an Exogenous Shock
This article takes advantage of a naturally occurring experiment to examine how congressional campaign advertising responds to dramatic events. Integrating the literatures on issue ownership and gender stereotypes, we ask how campaign rhetoric and substance changed after the attacks of September 11, 2001, paying particular attention to how those responses were mediated by party and gender expectations. Using data from the Wisconsin Advertising Pr…
The State’s Relations: What the Institution of Family Tells Us about Governance
The authors examine family as an institution of governance in American welfare provision in nineteenth-century poor laws and the twenty-first-century earned income tax credit. Their study demonstrates family’s important role achieving public policy aims, illustrates the extent to which governments have relied on nongovernmental actors, describes the tools they use, and shows how citizens’ relationship to the state is translated back through nongo…
Gender, Context, and Television Advertising: A Comprehensive Analysis of 2000 and 2002 House Races
Are men and women portrayed differently in campaigns? Much scholarship and commentary expects that this is so, yet previous studies provide ambiguous evidence on the extent of gender difference.The authors provide a comprehensive analysis of gender differences in television advertisements in congressional races in 2000 and 2002 with data that allow them to take into account the frequency of airings, the sponsorship of the advertisements, partisan…
Making Higher Education Affordable: Policy Design in Postwar America
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
All in the Family: The Private Roots of American Public Policy
Even a casual observer of American politics might notice the importance of family in political rhetoric like the Republicans' "family values" and the Democrats' "working families," but we know surprisingly little about the role of family in American politics. We typically think of family as "private" and out of the public realm of politics or we associate family and public policy with so-called family policies, such as welfare or family leave. Th…
The Politics of Family
Political science has been relatively silent about family, associating it with social welfare policy, gender, or the private sphere. However, family is also an important part of day-to-day politics, and legislators use family to accomplish a wide range of policy goals. This paper provides a theoretical framework for thinking about family as a part of the policy process that justifies policy positions, administers goods and services, and determine…
Gender, Context, and Television Advertising: A Comprehensive Analysis of 2000 and 2002 House Races
Are men and women portrayed differently in campaigns? Much scholarship and commentary expects that this is so, yet previous studies provide ambiguous evidence on the extent of gender difference.The authors provide a comprehensive analysis of gender differences in television advertisements in congressional races in 2000 and 2002 with data that allow them to take into account the frequency of airings, the sponsorship of the advertisements, partisan…
In a Different Voice? Explaining the Use of Men and Women as Voice-Over Announcers in Political Advertising
We draw on a comprehensive database of American political advertising and television audience profile data to investigate the ways in which gender influences choices about the use of voice-overs in political advertising. Our findings suggest that although men voice the vast majority of political ads, campaigns do strategically choose the sex of the voice-over announcer and that it systematically varies with candidate characteristics, ad tone, and…
The Politics of Family
Political science has been relatively silent about family, associating it with social welfare policy, gender, or the private sphere. However, family is also an important part of day-to-day politics, and legislators use family to accomplish a wide range of policy goals. This paper provides a theoretical framework for thinking about family as a part of the policy process that justifies policy positions, administers goods and services, and determine…
Trickle-Down Burdens: The Effect of Provider Burdens on Clients’ Experience
Administrative burden research disproportionately examines micro-level burdens on clients claiming benefits from public agencies. Yet we know little about meso-level burdens on third-party providers making up the submerged state—private actors working on behalf of a public purpose—and what effect these burdens have on services. We draw on interviews, participant observation, and focus groups with substance-use disorder service providers to map pr…
Competing Emergencies: A Policy Analysis of the Opioid Epidemic during Covid-19
The response to COVID-19 brought rapid policy change to substance-use services in the US and redefined its street-level bureaucrats (SLBs) as essential workers. What effect did policy changes have on SLB discretion and roles? This article examines policies prior to and after the onset of the pandemic and analyzes the implications for practice through interviews with managerial and executive staff in the substance-use field in New York State. In g…
Ideas, Municipal Sanitation, and the Transformation of Public Health
The transition from private, individual garbage disposal practices to public responsibility for sanitation marked a durable shift in governing authority, which advanced local governments’ control over public health at the same time it transformed public health outcomes in American cities. How did political actors at the time advocate for, win, and maintain cities’ public health authority and capacity? We show the development of municipal garbage …
The Garbage Problem: Corruption, Innovation, and Capacity in Four American Cities, 1890–1940
While American political development scholars tend to focus on national or state-level politics, late nineteenth-century cities provided the lion's share of services: clean water, paved and lighted streets, and sanitation. How did cities innovate and build municipal capacity to do these things? We answer this question by looking at municipal responses to the garbage problem. As cities grew and trash piled up in the 1890s, cities explored ways to …
The State’s Relations: What the Institution of Family Tells Us about Governance
The authors examine family as an institution of governance in American welfare provision in nineteenth-century poor laws and the twenty-first-century earned income tax credit. Their study demonstrates family’s important role achieving public policy aims, illustrates the extent to which governments have relied on nongovernmental actors, describes the tools they use, and shows how citizens’ relationship to the state is translated back through nongo…
Making Higher Education Affordable: Policy Design in Postwar America
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Effects of Men’s and Women’s Voices in Political Advertising
Campaigns disproportionately choose men to voice their political ads, but it is not clear that men’s voices are more credible or better able to persuade an audience. We employ experimental data and novel survey data to test theoretical expectations about the circumstances under which men’s and women’s voices might be more or less effective, specifically looking at how gender association of the ad issues and gender of the message recipient shape t…
Campaigning for Congress in the “9/11” Era: Considerations of Gender and Party in Response to an Exogenous Shock
This article takes advantage of a naturally occurring experiment to examine how congressional campaign advertising responds to dramatic events. Integrating the literatures on issue ownership and gender stereotypes, we ask how campaign rhetoric and substance changed after the attacks of September 11, 2001, paying particular attention to how those responses were mediated by party and gender expectations. Using data from the Wisconsin Advertising Pr…
What’s Wrong with Us? Sexual Misconduct and the Discipline of Political Science
Sexual misconduct matters not only when it is perpetuated by political actors in political institutions. It matters wherever it happens and whomever it happens to, because it is, at its base, political. Politics is fundamentally about power: who gets what, when, and how. As political scientists it should be at the heart of what we study, but it isn’t. Our discipline creates artificial (and somewhat arbitrary) boundaries about which studies of pol…
Sanitarians, Public Good, and Power: Generating Tolerance for Garbage Disposal Plants, 1896-1910
The passage of municipal garbage collection ordinances across the United States in the 1890s promoted public health, but garbage disposal plants themselves generated noxious odors that presented a nuisance to nearby residents. This article relies on Pittsburgh’s and Columbus’s experiences with garbage collection to identify the power that local governments—whether machine or reform—wielded in responding to challenges to their municipal garbage co…
Learning by proxy: How burdensome policies shape policy implementors' views of government
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 professionals who implement programs. What lessons do professionals learn from implementing nominally positive (care) services for negatively constructed populations, and how do they learn them? Drawing on interviews, focus groups, and participant obse…
Gender practice as political practice: Cancer, culture, and identity
In the early 1990s, breast cancer activists scored major political victories: they formed a powerful new interest group, attracted attention from President Clinton, and secured allies in Congress w
The Politics of Family
Political science has been relatively silent about family, associating it with social welfare policy, gender, or the private sphere. However, family is also an important part of day-to-day politics, and legislators use family to accomplish a wide range of policy goals. This paper provides a theoretical framework for thinking about family as a part of the policy process that justifies policy positions, administers goods and services, and determine…
All in the Family: The Private Roots of American Public Policy
Even a casual observer of American politics might notice the importance of family in political rhetoric like the Republicans' "family values" and the Democrats' "working families," but we know surprisingly little about the role of family in American politics. We typically think of family as "private" and out of the public realm of politics or we associate family and public policy with so-called family policies, such as welfare or family leave. Th…
Making Higher Education Affordable: Policy Design in Postwar America
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Campaigning for Congress in the “9/11” Era: Considerations of Gender and Party in Response to an Exogenous Shock
This article takes advantage of a naturally occurring experiment to examine how congressional campaign advertising responds to dramatic events. Integrating the literatures on issue ownership and gender stereotypes, we ask how campaign rhetoric and substance changed after the attacks of September 11, 2001, paying particular attention to how those responses were mediated by party and gender expectations. Using data from the Wisconsin Advertising Pr…
The State’s Relations: What the Institution of Family Tells Us about Governance
The authors examine family as an institution of governance in American welfare provision in nineteenth-century poor laws and the twenty-first-century earned income tax credit. Their study demonstrates family’s important role achieving public policy aims, illustrates the extent to which governments have relied on nongovernmental actors, describes the tools they use, and shows how citizens’ relationship to the state is translated back through nongo…
Gender, Context, and Television Advertising: A Comprehensive Analysis of 2000 and 2002 House Races
Are men and women portrayed differently in campaigns? Much scholarship and commentary expects that this is so, yet previous studies provide ambiguous evidence on the extent of gender difference.The authors provide a comprehensive analysis of gender differences in television advertisements in congressional races in 2000 and 2002 with data that allow them to take into account the frequency of airings, the sponsorship of the advertisements, partisan…
Gender practice as political practice: Cancer, culture, and identity
In the early 1990s, breast cancer activists scored major political victories: they formed a powerful new interest group, attracted attention from President Clinton, and secured allies in Congress w
The State(s) of Health: Federalism and the Implementation of Health Reform in the Context of HIV Care
Although the federal government will finance most of the coverage expansions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), implementation is largely devolved to states. Drawing from interviews with HIV policy experts and program managers and a documents review, the authors enumerate actions that must occur at multiple levels of government in order for ACA implementation in the context of HIV care to improve access to health care and he…
Dirty Politics: Public Employees, Private Contractors, and the Development of Nineteenth-Century Trash Collection in Pittsburgh and New Orleans
Nineteenth-century Pittsburgh and New Orleans were a mess: trash filled the streets impeding travel, hindering commerce, and spreading disease. City officials in Pittsburgh turned to private contractors to collect trash at public expense while in New Orleans they relied on city employees (through the mechanism of widows carts). Like Pittsburgh and New Orleans, nineteenth-century cities faced a mounting garbage problem and, like Pittsburgh, northe…
In a Different Voice? Explaining the Use of Men and Women as Voice-Over Announcers in Political Advertising
We draw on a comprehensive database of American political advertising and television audience profile data to investigate the ways in which gender influences choices about the use of voice-overs in political advertising. Our findings suggest that although men voice the vast majority of political ads, campaigns do strategically choose the sex of the voice-over announcer and that it systematically varies with candidate characteristics, ad tone, and…
The Effects of Men’s and Women’s Voices in Political Advertising
Campaigns disproportionately choose men to voice their political ads, but it is not clear that men’s voices are more credible or better able to persuade an audience. We employ experimental data and novel survey data to test theoretical expectations about the circumstances under which men’s and women’s voices might be more or less effective, specifically looking at how gender association of the ad issues and gender of the message recipient shape t…
When Bad Policy Makes Good Politics
A Policy Paradox: Response to Theodora Ooms
It's hard to look at the 2018 family separation policies of the U.S. federal government (and ensuing uproar) at the border with Mexico and not think that family policy should play a key role in American politics. But it doesn't. As Ooms argues in her masterful recounting of the history of family policy, the field has made major advances, but family policy remains largely unknown and undervalued by academics, policymakers, media, and the general p…
The Garbage Problem: Corruption, Innovation, and Capacity in Four American Cities, 1890–1940
While American political development scholars tend to focus on national or state-level politics, late nineteenth-century cities provided the lion's share of services: clean water, paved and lighted streets, and sanitation. How did cities innovate and build municipal capacity to do these things? We answer this question by looking at municipal responses to the garbage problem. As cities grew and trash piled up in the 1890s, cities explored ways to …
What’s Wrong with Us? Sexual Misconduct and the Discipline of Political Science
Sexual misconduct matters not only when it is perpetuated by political actors in political institutions. It matters wherever it happens and whomever it happens to, because it is, at its base, political. Politics is fundamentally about power: who gets what, when, and how. As political scientists it should be at the heart of what we study, but it isn’t. Our discipline creates artificial (and somewhat arbitrary) boundaries about which studies of pol…
Competing Emergencies: A Policy Analysis of the Opioid Epidemic during Covid-19
The response to COVID-19 brought rapid policy change to substance-use services in the US and redefined its street-level bureaucrats (SLBs) as essential workers. What effect did policy changes have on SLB discretion and roles? This article examines policies prior to and after the onset of the pandemic and analyzes the implications for practice through interviews with managerial and executive staff in the substance-use field in New York State. In g…
Learning by proxy: How burdensome policies shape policy implementors' views of government
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 professionals who implement programs. What lessons do professionals learn from implementing nominally positive (care) services for negatively constructed populations, and how do they learn them? Drawing on interviews, focus groups, and participant obse…
Trickle-Down Burdens: The Effect of Provider Burdens on Clients’ Experience
Administrative burden research disproportionately examines micro-level burdens on clients claiming benefits from public agencies. Yet we know little about meso-level burdens on third-party providers making up the submerged state—private actors working on behalf of a public purpose—and what effect these burdens have on services. We draw on interviews, participant observation, and focus groups with substance-use disorder service providers to map pr…
The Tradeoff Between Corruption and Capacity: The Case of Nineteenth Century St. Louis and Pittsburgh
Competing Issue Publics in the Opioid Epidemic: Implications for Public Policy
Public perception matters for policy outcomes. Most research finds that, in contrast to past drug waves, the public views the contemporary opioid epidemic as a medical rather than criminal justice issue, although a smaller body of research suggests that criminal justice frameworks persist. We know less, however, about how issue publics with direct experience—who are more likely to take action and have the ear of policy makers—understand it. How d…
Ideas, Municipal Sanitation, and the Transformation of Public Health
The transition from private, individual garbage disposal practices to public responsibility for sanitation marked a durable shift in governing authority, which advanced local governments’ control over public health at the same time it transformed public health outcomes in American cities. How did political actors at the time advocate for, win, and maintain cities’ public health authority and capacity? We show the development of municipal garbage …
Sanitarians, Public Good, and Power: Generating Tolerance for Garbage Disposal Plants, 1896-1910
The passage of municipal garbage collection ordinances across the United States in the 1890s promoted public health, but garbage disposal plants themselves generated noxious odors that presented a nuisance to nearby residents. This article relies on Pittsburgh’s and Columbus’s experiences with garbage collection to identify the power that local governments—whether machine or reform—wielded in responding to challenges to their municipal garbage co…
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