MIT Political Science

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Andrea Louise Campbell Associate Professor Campbell's interests include American politics, political behavior, public opinion, and political inequality, particularly their intersection with social welfare policy, health policy, and tax policy. She is the author of How Policies Make Citizens: Senior Citizen Activism and the American Welfare State (Princeton, 2003) and, with Kimberly J. Morgan, The Delegated Welfare State: Medicare, Markets, and the Governance of Social Provision (Oxford, 2011). Her research has appeared in the American Political Science Review, Political Behavior, Comparative Political Studies, Politics & Society, Studies in American Political Development, and Health Affairs, among others. She holds an A.B. degree from Harvard and a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. She is a member of the National Academy of Social Insurance and served on the National Academy of Sciences Commission on the Fiscal Future of the United States.

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Research

Professor Campbell's research examines the relationship between public policies and public opinion and political behavior. Her first book, How Policies Make Citizens, uses a case study of Social Security and senior citizens to explore and illustrate policy feedback effects and mass publics – how policies create constituencies and how those constituencies shape subsequent policy outcomes. Her second book with Kimberly Morgan, The Delegate Welfare State, utilizes a case study of Medicare, from its inception through the prescription drug reform of 2003 (with an afterward on the Obama health reform) to examine the causes and consequences of delegation of social welfare programs to non-state actors (to non-profits, to for-profit firms, and ultimately to consumer themselves in market model programs such as Medicare Part D drug plans). A third major project examines the interplay between policy and public opinion in the development and politics of American taxation over time.

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Recent Publications

"Delegated Governance in the Affordable Care Act of 2010," with Kimberly J. Morgan (lead author). Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law (forthcoming).

"The 10 Percent Solution: Why Progressives Can Stop Worrying and Love a Value-Added Tax." Democracy 19 (Winter 2011), 54-63.

"Paying America's Way: The Fraught Politics of Taxes, Investments, and Budgetary Responsibility." For the Russell Sage Foundation special initiative, "Reaching for a New Deal: President Obama's Agenda and the Dynamics of U.S. Politics," Theda Skocpol and Larry Jacobs, directors. October 2010. www.russellsage.org/research/working-group-president-obamas-policy-agenda.

"The Public's Role in Winner-Take-All Politics." Politics & Society 38 (June 2010): 227-32.

"A Partisan Divide on the Uninsured," with Tara Sussman (lead author), John Benson, Robert Blendon, and Alan Zaslavsky. Health Affairs 29 (March 2010): 706-11.

"Is the Economic Crisis Driving Wedges between Young and Old? Rich and Poor?" Generations 33 (Fall 2009): 47-53.

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Subjects

17.30 Making Public Policy
17.315 Health Policy
17.317 U.S. Social Policy
17.200 Graduate Seminar in American Politics I: Political Behavior
17.210 Advanced Topics in Political Behavior