James Michener
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1690056 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | James Michener |
| NOMBRES | James |
| APELLIDO | Michener |
| FIRMA | MICHENER J |
| AFILIACIONES | Cornell University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7343-442X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 337 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1956 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Child Tax Credits and (In)equitable State Policy Design
The Child Tax Credit (CTC) is an income support policy that helps to offset the cost of raising children. Though CTC policy has long been implemented at the federal level, an increasing number of states have established their own CTCs in recent years. Crucially, states have taken very different approaches to designing CTC policies. Some states have designed CTCs in ways that promote racial and economic equity (e.g., full refundability, high benef…
Tenant Organizing as a Pathway to Decoupling Wealth and Power
In the United States, property is wealth, and wealth is power. Racial wealth inequalities are (in part) the enduring result of this confluence. But today, as accelerating financialization transforms the relationship between property ownership and wealth, a rapidly expanding tenant movement is working to break the entrenched power of economic elites, and build the collective power of renters. Drawing insights from members of tenant organizations a…
A Descriptive Analysis of Tenant Right to Counsel Law and Praxis 2017–2024
This article provides the first comprehensive description of state and local tenant right to counsel (RTC) policies. From July 2017 through June 2024, five states, 17 cities, and one county passed legislation to formally create a right to legal counsel for tenants in eviction proceedings. These policies contain heterogeneous provisions, including their intended purposes, design and administration requirements, eligibility criteria, and when in th…
Beyond fear of backlash
Although U.S. health disparities are well-documented, the very communities that bear the brunt of those disparities are, ironically, underrepresented in scientific efforts to understand and address them. In two experiments (total N = 9523), we explored the consequences of omitting those perspectives for efforts to understand and address disparities in the COVID-19 pandemic. We found that, by prioritizing the perspectives of White Americans, studi…
The Politics of Personal Crisis
Economic risk and instability are urgent and central facts in the lives of increasing numbers of Americans. Though experienced as “personal,” the causes of life disruptions like unemployment, eviction, and loss of health insurance are also deeply political. In this paper, we build on existing “single crisis” studies to offer a comprehensive theoretical and empirical picture of how life disruptions shape political behavior. We use several large su…
Introduction
Administrative burdens are the frictions that people face in their encounters with public services, leading to meaningful costs that include learning, compliance, and psychological costs. We offer evidence that burdens are a key source and consequence of inequality, resulting in disparate outcomes in people’s access to basic rights. We also detail how these outcomes are patterned by targeting, federalism, bureaucratic pathologies, and the growing…
It’s Like Night and Day”
Research characterizes public assistance programs as stigmatizing and stressful (e.g., psychological costs) but obscures differences across programs or the features of policy design that contribute to varied bureaucratic encounters. Using 83 interviews with Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), and Medicaid beneficiaries, and 60 interviews with staff from t…
Racism and Health
Policy Points Racism operates in conjunction with interlocking forms of oppression, so it must be addressed relationally. Racism catalyzes processes of cumulative disadvantage as it extends across multiple policy domains along the life course, so it necessitates multifaceted policy solutions. Racism is a function of power relations, so the redistribution of power is a necessary precursor to health equity
Legal Aid and Social Policy
Civil legal systems structure Americans' relationship to the welfare state, offering grounds for contesting denials of benefits and preventing material harms like eviction. I draw on data from interviews with legal aid providers and tenant organizers to show how civil legal resources facilitate access to the safety net, and I argue that yoking legal aid and social policy is a strategy for managing a political economy that systematically undersupp…
Politics, power, and precarity
Race, power, and policy
In the United States, striking racial disparities in COVID-19 infection and mortality rates were one of the core patterns of the virus. These racial disproportionalities were a result of structural factors—laws, rules, and practices embedded in economic, social, and political systems. Public policy is central among such structural features. Policies distribute advantages, disadvantages, benefits, and burdens in ways that generate, reinforce, or r…
From the Margins to the Center
In this article we reassess conceptions of the welfare state with an eye towards the limits of current scholarly approaches. In particular, we propose centering the study of the welfare state around those who occupy the margins of American society. We argue that concentrating on populations at the proverbial “bottom” of standard economic and political hierarchies productively reorients research on social policy and politics by bringing crucial bu…
American Federalism, Political Inequality, and Democratic Erosion
The United States has a particularly decentralized form of federalism that provides important authority to multiple levels of government. This decentralization is typically seen as beneficial for democratic politics. But while federalism both constrains and enables democratic participation, we argue that it does so unevenly, and in ways that deepen inequalities in the processes of democracy. We propose four mechanisms by which the institutional d…
Democratic Vulnerabilities and Pathways for Reform
democracy; backsliding; political development; institutions; reform
Politics, Pandemic, and Racial Justice Through the Lens of Medicaid
Politics, Pandemic, and Racial Justice Through the Lens of Medicaid Jamila D. Michener PhD Affiliation Jamila D. Michener is with the Department of Government and the Cornell Center for Health Equity, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.CopyRightCorrespondence should be sent to Jamila D. Michener, Associate Professor, 214 White Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853 (e-mail: [email protected]). Reprints can be ordered at http://www.ajph.org by clicking the "Reprints…
Racism, Health, and Politics
George Floyd underscored the urgency and interconnectedness of racism and health. Even as COVID-19 was disproportionately devastating Black, Latina/o/x/e, Pacific Islander, and Native communities, people across the United States were participating in massive, historic protests against racialized state violence (Barber 2020
The Affordable Care Act and Polarization in the United States
Julianna Pacheco a , Jake Haselswerdt b , Jamila Michener c , The Affordable Care Act and Polarization in the United States, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 6, No. 2, The Social, Political, and Economic Effects of the Affordable Care Act (July 2020), pp. 114-130
Race, Politics, and the Affordable Care Act
The political processes surrounding the Affordable Care Act (ACA) offer valuable lessons about race and politics in the United States. In particular, the ACA underscores a critical tension between politics and policy in a racialized polity: even when policies are intended to target and address racial disparities, politics can undermine the steps necessary to do so. Close scrutiny of the ACA during its first decade reveals how race intersects with…
Power from the Margins
Many scholars paint a somber picture of the political status of racially and economically marginalized groups in the United States. In particular, seminal studies on cities—places where race and class strikingly intersect—emphasize economic and political elites as primary drivers of urban politics, underscoring the disempowerment of those at the margins. This article offers a different, theoretically instructive perspective. Through a qualitative…
Policy Feedback in a Racialized Polity
American public policy is and has always been profoundly racialized. Yet, the literature on policy feedback lacks cohesive theorization of how race matters for feedback processes. This article offers a conceptual road map for studying policy feedback in the context of racialized politics. Drawing together the substantial (but largely disconnected) work that already exists in the fields of public policy and racial politics, I develop the racialize…
What's Policy Got to Do with It? Race, Gender & Economic Inequality in the United States
In the United States, economic inequality is both racialized and gendered, with Black and Latina women consistently at the bottom of the economic hierarchy. Relative to men (across racial groups) and White women, Black and Latina women often have less-desirable jobs, lower earnings, and higher poverty rates. In this essay, we draw attention to the role of the state in structuring such inequality. Specifically, we examine how public policy is rela…
Medicaid and the Policy Feedback Foundations for Universal Healthcare
Public policies are products of politics, but they also feed back into the political system by shaping the actions and attitudes of members of the polity. To date, scholarly examinations of feedback processes have been mostly concerned with understanding the relationship between public policy and democracy; relatively little attention has been paid to connecting policy feedback to the practical questions that animate politics. This article examin…
Fragmented Democracy
Medicaid is the single largest public health insurer in the United States, covering upwards of 70 million Americans. Crucially, Medicaid is also an intergovernmental program that yokes poverty to federalism: the federal government determines its broad contours, while states have tremendous discretion over how Medicaid is designed and implemented. Where some locales are generous and open handed, others are tight-fisted and punitive. In Fragmented …
Social Class As Racialized Political Experience
Common markers of social class include income, wealth, education and family background. Though these capture staple pedestrian elements of class, they understate something substantial – social class is produced by political experiences. Building on this observation, I argue that social class is constructed and reinforced via political institutions that differentially affect the daily experiences and life trajectories of Americans. Viewing class t…
Race, Poverty, and the Redistribution of Voting Rights
The relative political disengagement of people living in poverty poses an enduring challenge to the integrity of American democracy. In 1993, Congress attempted to address this by passing section 7 of the National Voter Registration Act. This law requires that all public assistance agencies serve as voter registration sites. Though advocates had high hopes for section 7, it has proven difficult to implement. Since very early on, state compliance …
Policy Feedback in a Racialized Polity
American public policy is and has always been profoundly racialized. Yet, the literature on policy feedback lacks cohesive theorization of how race matters for feedback processes. This article offers a conceptual road map for studying policy feedback in the context of racialized politics. Drawing together the substantial (but largely disconnected) work that already exists in the fields of public policy and racial politics, I develop the racialize…
From the Margins to the Center
In this article we reassess conceptions of the welfare state with an eye towards the limits of current scholarly approaches. In particular, we propose centering the study of the welfare state around those who occupy the margins of American society. We argue that concentrating on populations at the proverbial “bottom” of standard economic and political hierarchies productively reorients research on social policy and politics by bringing crucial bu…
Neighborhood Disorder and Local Participation
Power from the Margins
Many scholars paint a somber picture of the political status of racially and economically marginalized groups in the United States. In particular, seminal studies on cities—places where race and class strikingly intersect—emphasize economic and political elites as primary drivers of urban politics, underscoring the disempowerment of those at the margins. This article offers a different, theoretically instructive perspective. Through a qualitative…
It’s Like Night and Day”
Research characterizes public assistance programs as stigmatizing and stressful (e.g., psychological costs) but obscures differences across programs or the features of policy design that contribute to varied bureaucratic encounters. Using 83 interviews with Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), and Medicaid beneficiaries, and 60 interviews with staff from t…
Race, Politics, and the Affordable Care Act
The political processes surrounding the Affordable Care Act (ACA) offer valuable lessons about race and politics in the United States. In particular, the ACA underscores a critical tension between politics and policy in a racialized polity: even when policies are intended to target and address racial disparities, politics can undermine the steps necessary to do so. Close scrutiny of the ACA during its first decade reveals how race intersects with…
Introduction
Administrative burdens are the frictions that people face in their encounters with public services, leading to meaningful costs that include learning, compliance, and psychological costs. We offer evidence that burdens are a key source and consequence of inequality, resulting in disparate outcomes in people’s access to basic rights. We also detail how these outcomes are patterned by targeting, federalism, bureaucratic pathologies, and the growing…
What's Policy Got to Do with It? Race, Gender & Economic Inequality in the United States
In the United States, economic inequality is both racialized and gendered, with Black and Latina women consistently at the bottom of the economic hierarchy. Relative to men (across racial groups) and White women, Black and Latina women often have less-desirable jobs, lower earnings, and higher poverty rates. In this essay, we draw attention to the role of the state in structuring such inequality. Specifically, we examine how public policy is rela…
Race, Poverty, and the Redistribution of Voting Rights
The relative political disengagement of people living in poverty poses an enduring challenge to the integrity of American democracy. In 1993, Congress attempted to address this by passing section 7 of the National Voter Registration Act. This law requires that all public assistance agencies serve as voter registration sites. Though advocates had high hopes for section 7, it has proven difficult to implement. Since very early on, state compliance …
Politics, power, and precarity
American Federalism, Political Inequality, and Democratic Erosion
The United States has a particularly decentralized form of federalism that provides important authority to multiple levels of government. This decentralization is typically seen as beneficial for democratic politics. But while federalism both constrains and enables democratic participation, we argue that it does so unevenly, and in ways that deepen inequalities in the processes of democracy. We propose four mechanisms by which the institutional d…
Racism and Health
Policy Points Racism operates in conjunction with interlocking forms of oppression, so it must be addressed relationally. Racism catalyzes processes of cumulative disadvantage as it extends across multiple policy domains along the life course, so it necessitates multifaceted policy solutions. Racism is a function of power relations, so the redistribution of power is a necessary precursor to health equity
Race, power, and policy
In the United States, striking racial disparities in COVID-19 infection and mortality rates were one of the core patterns of the virus. These racial disproportionalities were a result of structural factors—laws, rules, and practices embedded in economic, social, and political systems. Public policy is central among such structural features. Policies distribute advantages, disadvantages, benefits, and burdens in ways that generate, reinforce, or r…
The Politics of Personal Crisis
Economic risk and instability are urgent and central facts in the lives of increasing numbers of Americans. Though experienced as “personal,” the causes of life disruptions like unemployment, eviction, and loss of health insurance are also deeply political. In this paper, we build on existing “single crisis” studies to offer a comprehensive theoretical and empirical picture of how life disruptions shape political behavior. We use several large su…
Racism, Health, and Politics
George Floyd underscored the urgency and interconnectedness of racism and health. Even as COVID-19 was disproportionately devastating Black, Latina/o/x/e, Pacific Islander, and Native communities, people across the United States were participating in massive, historic protests against racialized state violence (Barber 2020
The Affordable Care Act and Polarization in the United States
Julianna Pacheco a , Jake Haselswerdt b , Jamila Michener c , The Affordable Care Act and Polarization in the United States, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 6, No. 2, The Social, Political, and Economic Effects of the Affordable Care Act (July 2020), pp. 114-130
Social Class As Racialized Political Experience
Common markers of social class include income, wealth, education and family background. Though these capture staple pedestrian elements of class, they understate something substantial – social class is produced by political experiences. Building on this observation, I argue that social class is constructed and reinforced via political institutions that differentially affect the daily experiences and life trajectories of Americans. Viewing class t…
Legal Aid and Social Policy
Civil legal systems structure Americans' relationship to the welfare state, offering grounds for contesting denials of benefits and preventing material harms like eviction. I draw on data from interviews with legal aid providers and tenant organizers to show how civil legal resources facilitate access to the safety net, and I argue that yoking legal aid and social policy is a strategy for managing a political economy that systematically undersupp…
Democratic Vulnerabilities and Pathways for Reform
democracy; backsliding; political development; institutions; reform
Politics, Pandemic, and Racial Justice Through the Lens of Medicaid
Politics, Pandemic, and Racial Justice Through the Lens of Medicaid Jamila D. Michener PhD Affiliation Jamila D. Michener is with the Department of Government and the Cornell Center for Health Equity, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.CopyRightCorrespondence should be sent to Jamila D. Michener, Associate Professor, 214 White Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853 (e-mail: [email protected]). Reprints can be ordered at http://www.ajph.org by clicking the "Reprints…
Medicaid and the Policy Feedback Foundations for Universal Healthcare
Public policies are products of politics, but they also feed back into the political system by shaping the actions and attitudes of members of the polity. To date, scholarly examinations of feedback processes have been mostly concerned with understanding the relationship between public policy and democracy; relatively little attention has been paid to connecting policy feedback to the practical questions that animate politics. This article examin…
Modern Japanese Prints
The Modern Japanese Print-An Appreciation
Neighborhood Disorder and Local Participation
Race, Poverty, and the Redistribution of Voting Rights
The relative political disengagement of people living in poverty poses an enduring challenge to the integrity of American democracy. In 1993, Congress attempted to address this by passing section 7 of the National Voter Registration Act. This law requires that all public assistance agencies serve as voter registration sites. Though advocates had high hopes for section 7, it has proven difficult to implement. Since very early on, state compliance …
Social Class As Racialized Political Experience
Common markers of social class include income, wealth, education and family background. Though these capture staple pedestrian elements of class, they understate something substantial – social class is produced by political experiences. Building on this observation, I argue that social class is constructed and reinforced via political institutions that differentially affect the daily experiences and life trajectories of Americans. Viewing class t…
Fragmented Democracy
Medicaid is the single largest public health insurer in the United States, covering upwards of 70 million Americans. Crucially, Medicaid is also an intergovernmental program that yokes poverty to federalism: the federal government determines its broad contours, while states have tremendous discretion over how Medicaid is designed and implemented. Where some locales are generous and open handed, others are tight-fisted and punitive. In Fragmented …
Policy Feedback in a Racialized Polity
American public policy is and has always been profoundly racialized. Yet, the literature on policy feedback lacks cohesive theorization of how race matters for feedback processes. This article offers a conceptual road map for studying policy feedback in the context of racialized politics. Drawing together the substantial (but largely disconnected) work that already exists in the fields of public policy and racial politics, I develop the racialize…
What's Policy Got to Do with It? Race, Gender & Economic Inequality in the United States
In the United States, economic inequality is both racialized and gendered, with Black and Latina women consistently at the bottom of the economic hierarchy. Relative to men (across racial groups) and White women, Black and Latina women often have less-desirable jobs, lower earnings, and higher poverty rates. In this essay, we draw attention to the role of the state in structuring such inequality. Specifically, we examine how public policy is rela…
Medicaid and the Policy Feedback Foundations for Universal Healthcare
Public policies are products of politics, but they also feed back into the political system by shaping the actions and attitudes of members of the polity. To date, scholarly examinations of feedback processes have been mostly concerned with understanding the relationship between public policy and democracy; relatively little attention has been paid to connecting policy feedback to the practical questions that animate politics. This article examin…
The Affordable Care Act and Polarization in the United States
Julianna Pacheco a , Jake Haselswerdt b , Jamila Michener c , The Affordable Care Act and Polarization in the United States, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 6, No. 2, The Social, Political, and Economic Effects of the Affordable Care Act (July 2020), pp. 114-130
Race, Politics, and the Affordable Care Act
The political processes surrounding the Affordable Care Act (ACA) offer valuable lessons about race and politics in the United States. In particular, the ACA underscores a critical tension between politics and policy in a racialized polity: even when policies are intended to target and address racial disparities, politics can undermine the steps necessary to do so. Close scrutiny of the ACA during its first decade reveals how race intersects with…
Power from the Margins
Many scholars paint a somber picture of the political status of racially and economically marginalized groups in the United States. In particular, seminal studies on cities—places where race and class strikingly intersect—emphasize economic and political elites as primary drivers of urban politics, underscoring the disempowerment of those at the margins. This article offers a different, theoretically instructive perspective. Through a qualitative…
Politics, Pandemic, and Racial Justice Through the Lens of Medicaid
Politics, Pandemic, and Racial Justice Through the Lens of Medicaid Jamila D. Michener PhD Affiliation Jamila D. Michener is with the Department of Government and the Cornell Center for Health Equity, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.CopyRightCorrespondence should be sent to Jamila D. Michener, Associate Professor, 214 White Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853 (e-mail: [email protected]). Reprints can be ordered at http://www.ajph.org by clicking the "Reprints…
Racism, Health, and Politics
George Floyd underscored the urgency and interconnectedness of racism and health. Even as COVID-19 was disproportionately devastating Black, Latina/o/x/e, Pacific Islander, and Native communities, people across the United States were participating in massive, historic protests against racialized state violence (Barber 2020
Politics, power, and precarity
Race, power, and policy
In the United States, striking racial disparities in COVID-19 infection and mortality rates were one of the core patterns of the virus. These racial disproportionalities were a result of structural factors—laws, rules, and practices embedded in economic, social, and political systems. Public policy is central among such structural features. Policies distribute advantages, disadvantages, benefits, and burdens in ways that generate, reinforce, or r…
From the Margins to the Center
In this article we reassess conceptions of the welfare state with an eye towards the limits of current scholarly approaches. In particular, we propose centering the study of the welfare state around those who occupy the margins of American society. We argue that concentrating on populations at the proverbial “bottom” of standard economic and political hierarchies productively reorients research on social policy and politics by bringing crucial bu…
American Federalism, Political Inequality, and Democratic Erosion
The United States has a particularly decentralized form of federalism that provides important authority to multiple levels of government. This decentralization is typically seen as beneficial for democratic politics. But while federalism both constrains and enables democratic participation, we argue that it does so unevenly, and in ways that deepen inequalities in the processes of democracy. We propose four mechanisms by which the institutional d…
Democratic Vulnerabilities and Pathways for Reform
democracy; backsliding; political development; institutions; reform
Introduction
Administrative burdens are the frictions that people face in their encounters with public services, leading to meaningful costs that include learning, compliance, and psychological costs. We offer evidence that burdens are a key source and consequence of inequality, resulting in disparate outcomes in people’s access to basic rights. We also detail how these outcomes are patterned by targeting, federalism, bureaucratic pathologies, and the growing…
It’s Like Night and Day”
Research characterizes public assistance programs as stigmatizing and stressful (e.g., psychological costs) but obscures differences across programs or the features of policy design that contribute to varied bureaucratic encounters. Using 83 interviews with Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), and Medicaid beneficiaries, and 60 interviews with staff from t…
Racism and Health
Policy Points Racism operates in conjunction with interlocking forms of oppression, so it must be addressed relationally. Racism catalyzes processes of cumulative disadvantage as it extends across multiple policy domains along the life course, so it necessitates multifaceted policy solutions. Racism is a function of power relations, so the redistribution of power is a necessary precursor to health equity
Legal Aid and Social Policy
Civil legal systems structure Americans' relationship to the welfare state, offering grounds for contesting denials of benefits and preventing material harms like eviction. I draw on data from interviews with legal aid providers and tenant organizers to show how civil legal resources facilitate access to the safety net, and I argue that yoking legal aid and social policy is a strategy for managing a political economy that systematically undersupp…
The Politics of Personal Crisis
Economic risk and instability are urgent and central facts in the lives of increasing numbers of Americans. Though experienced as “personal,” the causes of life disruptions like unemployment, eviction, and loss of health insurance are also deeply political. In this paper, we build on existing “single crisis” studies to offer a comprehensive theoretical and empirical picture of how life disruptions shape political behavior. We use several large su…
A Descriptive Analysis of Tenant Right to Counsel Law and Praxis 2017–2024
This article provides the first comprehensive description of state and local tenant right to counsel (RTC) policies. From July 2017 through June 2024, five states, 17 cities, and one county passed legislation to formally create a right to legal counsel for tenants in eviction proceedings. These policies contain heterogeneous provisions, including their intended purposes, design and administration requirements, eligibility criteria, and when in th…
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