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Kathleen Sullivan

@kathlsullivan.bsky.social
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Political science prof at Ohio University. I write about garbage collection, sailors boardinghouses, and coverture. www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9… itisnotasecret.substack.com

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Kathleen Sullivan @kathlsullivan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
@patriciastrach.bsky.social and I are writing about informal institutions and the second Trump administration.
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It’s the Professional Norms They’re After
Banning Journalists from the White House
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Kathleen Sullivan @kathlsullivan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I'm struck by the language of "dividend." It seems designed to make everybody feel like they should be excited about the stock market, whether they invest or not
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Kathleen Sullivan @kathlsullivan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
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Kathleen Sullivan @kathlsullivan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
It's the egg that's golden, not the goose. For some reason, I can't let this go
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Trump says voters who oppose data centers will ‘kill the Golden Goose’
The president defends the server farms as polling shows sizable shares of Americans from both political parties are opposed to them.
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Kathleen Sullivan @kathlsullivan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
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Kathleen Sullivan @kathlsullivan.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
This Kathleen Sullivan is just waiting for her day to come
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Kathleen Sullivan @kathlsullivan.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
The USDA says it's rescinding the roadless rule to build roads to manage the lands to reduce the risk of forest fires. But roads increase the risk of fires. @patriciastrach.bsky.social and I say that this kind of pretextual public purpose is a clue to the way that governing itself is changing
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The Roadless Rule
Mapping Out the New Way of Governing
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Patricia Strach @patriciastrach.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Special edition of Public Integrity on the paradox of anti-corruption policy out open access! Lots of great work from around the globe, including by @kathlsullivan.bsky.social and me on 19thC St. Louis and Pittsburgh. Thanks to @lisiperezchiques.bsky.social and Oliver Meza.
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The Paradox of Anti-Corruption Policy Formulation, Adoption, and Implementation in Contexts of Systemic Corruption (A Special Issue of Public Integrity)
Explore the article collection: The Paradox of Anti-Corruption Policy Formulation, Adoption, and Implementation in Contexts of Systemic Corruption (A Special Issue of Public Integrity). Published in Public Integrity.
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Ryan LaRochelle @rlarochelle.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
🚨Attention American Political Development Scholars🚨 We are excited to announce a new APD Workshop Series where scholars--especially grad students, post-docs, junior faculty, and folks at institutions with limited research budgets--can present works-in progress. sites.google.com/maine.edu/ap...
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APD Workshop Series
Mission: The APD Workshop Series provides opportunities for scholars of American Political Development--especially advanced graduate students, post-docs, junior faculty, and faculty at institutions wi...
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Kathleen Sullivan @kathlsullivan.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Some good news that we don’t really talk about is that the Chicago Manual of Style doesn’t require place of publication anymore.
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Kathleen Sullivan @kathlsullivan.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
He was the most generous of colleagues.
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Kathleen Sullivan @kathlsullivan.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Fabulous news! Congratulations!
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Kathleen Sullivan @kathlsullivan.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
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Kathleen Sullivan @kathlsullivan.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
I learned so much about the internecine meme wars from this book www.bloomsbury.com/us/meme-wars...
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Meme Wars
A groundbreaking investigation into the digital underworld, where far-right operatives wage wars against mainstream America, from a masterful trio of experts in…
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Kathleen Sullivan @kathlsullivan.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Wonderful news, @jamellebouie.net. Congratulations!
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Kathleen Sullivan @kathlsullivan.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
This one starts out strong, and then keeps going. Love this!
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Urban Affairs Review @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
🎧🎧🎧 UAR Remixed is BACK! Tune in to hear Part 1 of our miniseries with the authors of the new symposium on the Local Politics of Public Health, streaming on all major platforms! www.urbanaffairsreview.com/uar-archive/...
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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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Kathleen Sullivan @kathlsullivan.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
I can't stop thinking about this article @marissaesque.bsky.social papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Social Murder
<p>The concept of social murder has been adopted into British legal and sociological lexicons to conceptualize the State’s reckless sacrifices of its most vulne
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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
I posted this last night, actually, on this very thing. It's the difference between democratic "rule of law" and autocratic "rule by law": jennifermercieca.substack.com/p/autocrats-...
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Autocrats like Trump "rule by law"
There's an important difference between the "rule of law" and "rule by law"
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Kathleen Sullivan @kathlsullivan.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
This is the sort of thing that South Carolina did after the Civil War. To boost its white population, SC recruited immigrants from Germany and Scandinavia hdl.handle.net/2027/emu.000...
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South Carolina : a home for the industrious immigrant. / Published by the Commissioner of Immigration
South Carolina : a home for the industrious immigrant. / Published by the Commissioner of Immigration
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Kathleen Sullivan @kathlsullivan.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
This here's a seminal meme
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Vital City @vitalcitynyc.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
The history of garbage pickup in big cities suggests that corruption actually has some utility. Dumpster dive with us: www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/les...
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Vital City | Dirtier Politics, Cleaner Streets?
Lessons about corruption from the history of garbage
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Kathleen Sullivan @kathlsullivan.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
A CRS report offers a handy primer if you don't want to dust off your Antifederalist Papers crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/...
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Kathleen Sullivan @kathlsullivan.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Remember when the Antifederalists expressed fears that a standing army would turn against the people? The Federalists assured them not to worry because the "whole power of raising armies was lodged in the Legislature." avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century...
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The Avalon Project : The Federalist Papers
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Kathleen Sullivan @kathlsullivan.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
"ours"(!)
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Kathleen Sullivan @kathlsullivan.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Jerold Auerbach, "Progressives at Sea," in a 1961 issue of Labor History should address this. I've got an article about this in the next issue of Federal History Journal
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Kathleen Sullivan @kathlsullivan.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Florence Kelley, of the Consumers League, was quite active in promoting safety at sea in support of this bill. She writes about it in an essay, "Women and Social Legislation"
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Kathleen Sullivan @kathlsullivan.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Hi Tully, based on my study of U.S. sailor mobilization: The Titanic disaster was invoked to support efforts toward "safety at sea," included in La Follette's bill that became the labor-friendly Seamen's Act of 1915.
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Kathleen Sullivan @kathlsullivan.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
I've got something! I'll reply to Tully
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Kathleen Sullivan @kathlsullivan.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
That is an excellent idea! Thank you for the suggestion (and the push)
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Kathleen Sullivan @kathlsullivan.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
No, we've never been been asked. We'd always be game to talk with him
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Kathleen Sullivan @kathlsullivan.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
What a find! Same old story, new resources
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Kathleen Sullivan @kathlsullivan.bsky.social · 06/03/2024
@patriciastrach.bsky.social
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Kathleen Sullivan @kathlsullivan.bsky.social · 06/03/2024
You're the best, Eileen! Props to those designers, indeed. The visuals were so instructive, and the interactive graphics were so engaging
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Kathleen Sullivan @kathlsullivan.bsky.social · 11/02/2024
Thank you, Ashley!
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Kathleen Sullivan @kathlsullivan.bsky.social · 09/02/2024
A student of mine is presenting a poster at MPSA, but I won't be there. Does anyone know of student events at MPSA that I could connect her with? polisky
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Kathleen Sullivan @kathlsullivan.bsky.social · 30/10/2023
Are we doing cats of polisky?
A cat curled up on a bookshelf
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Kathleen Sullivan @kathlsullivan.bsky.social · 29/09/2023
Patricia Strach and I enjoyed the chance to explain how our studies of families led us to research garbage collection. It's all polisci
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Trash Talk : History and Politics of Trash with Patricia Strach and Kathleen Sullivan
Listen to this episode from Shortcast over Coffee on Spotify. Slipping on a banana peel is a cliché, a vintage vaudeville gag. But its origins weren’t just slapstick comedy. Before it became a come...
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Kathleen Sullivan @kathlsullivan.bsky.social · 27/09/2023
Seriously, I was *just* thinking about this. Departments of public safety used to encompass law enforcement and health, with so much in between. From Columbus, 1898:
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Kathleen Sullivan @kathlsullivan.bsky.social · 24/09/2023
I used it for the first time this summer. It's so much better than discussion boards! Will use again
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Kathleen Sullivan @kathlsullivan.bsky.social · 22/09/2023
Thrilled to see The Politics of Trash reviewed in Journal of the American Planning Association. It sees early 20thc patterns appear in midcentury waste management planning. And says we have “a knack for storytelling and archival research.” JAPAplanning polisky www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The Politics of Trash: How Governments Used Corruption to Clean Cities, 1890–1929
Published in Journal of the American Planning Association (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Kathleen Sullivan @kathlsullivan.bsky.social · 19/09/2023
@profmusgrave.bsky.social could you please add me to the polisky list? Thanks!
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Kathleen Sullivan @kathlsullivan.bsky.social · 19/09/2023
Thank you very much, @clancyny.bsky.social. Glad to be here, and always happy to talk trash!
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Kathleen Sullivan @kathlsullivan.bsky.social · 19/09/2023
via Hoyt Landon Warner, Progressivism in Ohio (1964)
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Kathleen Sullivan @kathlsullivan.bsky.social · 19/09/2023
TIL I learned about early 20th-century "ripper bills"--"bills which changed for partisan advantage the machinery of government" in Ohio. Never change, Ohio statehouse, never change.
Clipping from Progressivism in Ohio about ripper bills--bills which changed for partisan advantage the machinery of government
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Kathleen Sullivan @kathlsullivan.bsky.social · 19/09/2023
Sure thing. You can get in touch with Michael Cullinane on Twitter @MichaelCullina2
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Kathleen Sullivan @kathlsullivan.bsky.social · 19/09/2023
Podcast of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era should be a good fit. It's a good one! Congratulations! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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‎The Gilded Age and Progressive Era on Apple Podcasts
‎History · 2023
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