Andrea Louise Campbell, Hayes Career Development Associate Professor of Political Science, studies American politics, political behavior, public opinion, political inequality, and social policy. In particular Prof. Campbell is interested in the interplay between political institutions such as public policies and federal systems and the political behavior and attitudes of mass publics. Her first book, How Policies Make Citizens: Senior Political Activism and the American Welfare State (Princeton University Press, 2003), bridges the political behavior and historical institutionalist literatures to argue that democratic participation and public policy powerfully reinforce each other. Using a wealth of survey and historical data, the book shows how highly participatory groups get their policy preferences fulfilled and how public policy itself helps create political inequality.
Prof. Campbell is currently working on two major projects. First is a new book on taxes, public opinion, and the American fiscal state, under advanced contract with Princeton University Press. The second project, with Prof. Kimberly Morgan of George Washington University, examines the politics of the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003 and is funded by a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Investigators Award and a National Science Foundation grant.
Professor Campbell’s work has been published in the American Political Science Review, Political Behavior, Studies in American Political Development, and Comparative Political Studies. In 2001- 03, Professor Campbell was a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy at Yale University. A member of the National Academy of Social Insurance, she holds an A.B. degree from Harvard University and a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, and formerly was Assistant Professor of Government at Harvard University.
See Professor Campbell's publications page.
