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Sarah Pralle
Associate Professor

524 Eggers Hall

315-443-2893

sbpralle@maxwell.syr.edu

B.A.  Bates College
M.A. University of Washington
Ph.D. University of Washington

Courses:

Environmental Politics and Policy
Politics of Public Policy
Introduction to American Politics

Recent Publications:

“‘I’m Changing the Climate, Ask Me How!’: The Politics of the Anti-SUV Campaign.” Political Science Quarterly 121 (3): 397-423, 2006.  

 

“The Mouse that Roared: Agenda-Setting in Canadian Pesticides Politics.” Policy Studies Journal 34 (2): 171-194, 2006.

 

“Timing and Sequence in Agenda Setting and Policy Change: A comparative study of lawn care pesticide politics in Canada and the U.S.” Journal of European Public Policy 13 (7): 987-1005, 2006.

 

“Governing Energy Innovation: The Case of New York State.” In Sustainable Energy and the States: Essays on Politics, Markets, and Leadership. Ed. Dianne Rahm. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland and Company, Inc.: 48-63 (with Henry Lambright and Jessica Boscarino), 2006.

 

“Venue Shopping, Political Strategy, and Policy Change: The Internationalization of Canadian Forestry Advocacy,” Journal of Public Policy, September: 233-260, 2003.

 

“New Property Rights Debates: The Dialectics of Naming, Blaming, and Claiming.” In William G. Robbins and James C. Foster, eds. Land in the American West: Private Claims and the Common Good. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press (with Michael McCann), 2000.  

  

"Branching Out, Digging In: Environmental Advocacy and Agenda Setting."  Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2006.


Research Interests:

My theoretical interests center on how advocacy groups advance issues in the policy process. In particular, I am interested in how groups strategically frame policy problems and solutions, build coalitions, and shop for institutional arenas that offer them the most hope of getting their policies enacted. Recent research looked at the strategies of advocacy groups in forestry conflicts in the U.S. and Canada.

Current Research Projects:

My new project examines in more detail the strategy of venue shopping. I am looking at how advocacy groups choose institutional venues, why and when they seek to change venues, and what are the obstacles and opportunities for doing so.

 

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