Patricia Strach, Ph.D.

pstrach@albany.edu

University at Albany, SUNY

Phone: 5184435922

Address: Department of Political Science, 135 Western Avenue

City: Albany, New York - 12222

Country: United States

About Me:

I am professor of Political Science and Public Administration & Policy at the University at Albany, State University of New York and  director for policy and research at the Rockefeller Institute of Government, the public policy research arm of the 64-campus SUNY system. My research examines the relationship between social and political institutions in American public policy. I am currently working on a project about how communities respond to the opioid crisis. I am the author of Hiding Politics in Plain Sight: Cause Marketing, Corporate Influence, and Breast Cancer Policymaking and All in the Family: The Private Roots of American Public Policy as well as articles appearing in Political Research QuarterlyJournal of Policy HistoryPolity, and American Politics Research.  In 2008-2010 I was a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy Research at Harvard University.

Research Interests

Gender and Politics

Public Policy

Public Health

Countries of Interest

United States

My Research:

I am interested in how politics and government work in practice and am working on a few different projects.With colleagues at the Rockefeller Institute of Government, we are working on a project about how communities experience and address opioids. http://rockinst.org/stories-from-sullivan/Kathleen Sullivan (Ohio University) and I are working on a comparative study of corruption, examining how cities effectively or ineffectively used corruption to solve the mounting trash problem in nineteenth century cities.With colleagues from various institutions, I am also looking at how gender plays a role in campaign advertising.My previous work has looked at cause marketing and the power of business in public policymaking and the role of family in the policy process.