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Christine
Roch
Associate Professor of Public Administration and Urban Studies
Ph.D., State University of New York, Stony Brook
Phone: 404-651-3351
E-mail: padchr@langate.gsu.edu
Specialties:
Public Policy (Citizens' Responses to Policy, and Policy Change)
Information and Social Networks
Political Participation
Education Policy
Roch conducts research in the areas of the areas of public policy, urban politics, and political participation. She is primarily interested in how citizens respond to incentives that are created by policy and institutions, and in the macro-level implications of their behavior for the design of policy and institutions. She also has a substantive interest in education policy. She has written articles examining how incentives created by changing the institutional arrangements of schools affect the behavior of parents. She has also written about the role of social networks as an intermediary between citizen and state in the context of tax reform. Most recently, she has conducted research on education finance reform in the states, as well as research on citizen satisfaction with the use of non-profits in the delivery of social services. Her work has appeared in a number of scholarly journals, including the American Political Science Review and the American Journal of Political Science.
