John M. Strate
Associate Professor
Department of Political Science
Wayne State University
Detroit, MI 48202
email: ad5179@wayne.edu
Teaching:
I teach both undergraduate and graduate students. Currently, I teach three courses a year. The following are courses that I have taught in the last three years. I will send you a course syllabus if you wish.
PS 1000 Introduction to
Political Science
PS 4460 Techniques of Policy Analysis
PS 5560 Biopolitics
PS 5630 Statistics and Data Analysis I
PS 6640 Statistics and Data Analysis II
PS 7480 Policy Analysis for Public Administration
I've been advisor to eleven Ph.D's. I'm currently directing a project to develop four on-line courses for the Master of Public Administration Program.
Administration:
I've been Director of the Graduate Program in Public Administration for five years. Previously I served as departmental Graduate Adviser. I have also managed a Data Laboratory from the year of my first appointment at Wayne State.
Research:
I've been author or coauthor of a number of journal articles and book chapters. My research falls into a variety of areas: Aging and Political Behavior, Biopolitics, and Public Policy. The following are some of my publications.
Aging and Political Behavior:
Thomas
B. Jankowski and John Strate. 1995.
“Modes of Participation Over the Adult Life Span.” Political
Behavior 17:89-106.
John
M. Strate, Coit C. Ford III, Thomas B. Jankowski. 1994. “Women’s Use of the
Print Media to Monitor Politics.” Social
Science Quarterly 75:166-186.
John
M. Strate, Charles J. Parrish, Charles D. Elder, and Coit Ford III, 1989.
"Life Span Civic Development and Voting Participation," American
Political Science Review 83:443-464.
Robert
B. Hudson and John Strate. 1985. "Aging
and Political Systems," in Robert Binstock and Ethel
Shanas, eds., The Handbook of Aging and the Social Sciences, 2nd edition, pp.
554-585, New
York: Van Nostrand Reinhold
Company.
John Strate and Steven Dubnoff.
1986. "How Much Income
Is Enough? Measuring the Income
Adequacy of Retired Persons Using a Survey Based Approach," Journal
of Gerontology 41(2):393-400.
John
C. Campbell and John M. Strate. 1981.
"Are Old PeopleConservative?" The Gerontologist 21:580-591.
Biopolitics:
John Strate.
2003. Altruism and Good Samaritan Law. In
Albert Somit and Steven Peterson, eds. Human
Nature and Public Policy. An
Evolutionary Approach. New
York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Pp. 181-201.
John
M. Strate. 1995. "Political
Processes and the Anomaly of Socially Imposed Mongamy. Politics and the Life Sciences 14:10-12.
John
Strate. 1985. "The
Role of War in the Evolution of Political Systems and the Functional Priority of
Defense," Humboldt Journal of Social
Relations 12(2):87-114.
John
Strate. 1982. An
Evolutionary View of Political Culture. Dissertation, The University
of Michigan.
Public Policy:
Physician Assisted Suicide
John
M. Strate, Marvin Zalman, & Denis J. Hunter. 2005. Physician-assisted
suicide and the politics of problem definition.
Mortality 10(1):23-41.
John
M. Strate
and Marvin Zalman. 2004. Interest Group Lobbying on a Morality Policy Issue:
The Case of Physician-Assisted Suicide in Michigan. American Review of
Politics.
John Strate.
1999. Public Policy and Assisted Suicide. Social
Pathology: A Journal of Reviews 5(#1):86-99.
Marvin
Zalman, John Strate, Denis Hunter, and James Sellars. 1997. "The
Michigan Assisted Suicide Three Ring Circus:
The Intersection of the Common Law and Politics. Ohio Northern
University Law Review. 23(#3):863-968.
Susan
P. Fino, John M. Strate, Marvin Zalman. 1997. "Paging Dr. Death:
The Political Theater of Assisted Suicide in Michigan." Politics
and the Life Sciences 16:87-103.
Marvin
Zalman and John Strate. 1997. "Last Rights:
Assisted Suicide and the Judicial Process."
Criminal Law Bulletin.
33:205-225.
Urban Politics and Policy
Harold
Wolman, John Strate, and Alan Melchior.
1996. "Does Changing
Mayors Matter?" Journal of Politics 58:201-223.
John
M. Strate and James R. Sellars. 1993. “Elite
Opinion on Canada-U.S. Trade Liberalization.” The
American Journal of Canadian Studies 23:583-605.
John
Strate and Carter Wilson. 1993.
"Public Opinion on Schools of Choice in the Detroit Metropolitan
Area." The Urban Review 25:123-137.
John
Strate, Harold Wolman, and Alan Melchior.
1993. "Are There Election Driven Tax and Expenditure Cycles for
Urban Governments?" Urban Affairs
Quarterly 28:462-469.
Term Limits
I am coauthor on several publications as a member of a research project on term limits in the Michigan Legislature. Marjorie Sarbaugh-Thompson, a faculty member in the department, is principal investigator of this project. The following book was published recently.
Marjorie
Sarbaugh-Thompson, Lyke Thompson, Charles D. Elder, John Strate,
Richard C. Elling. 2004. Political and Institutional Effects of Term Limits.
Palgrave.
Personal:
Education
Macalester College, St. Paul, MN; B.A. 1969
The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; M.A. 1972, Ph.D. 1982
Memberships
American Society for Public Administration
American Political Science Association
Association for Politics and the Life Sciences
Activities, hobbies, sports, animals
Michigan Wolverine football, jogging, gardening, home improvement, Red
Wings hockey (lockout this year, too bad!), skiing, fishing, camping, dog and cat
Military service
U.S. Army, Vietnam veteran