Andrea Louise Campbell
Biographic Data
| ID | 3628830 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrea Louise Campbell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrea Louise |
| FAMILY NAME | Campbell |
| SIGNATURE | CAMPBELL A L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2094-2551 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 303 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Tools of Subnational Democratic Subversion
In an era of heightened partisan polarization, subnational officials in the United States have adopted a variety of tools that attenuate the connection between citizen preferences, election results, and policy outcomes. Building on recent scholarship in American and comparative politics, we identify promising avenues for future research on subnational democratic subversion. First, we broaden the list of tools beyond election administration and di…
Dereliction of Duty
In 2033, American social policy will reach a crossroads when the trust fund for its largest and most successful program runs out. Without Congressional action, Social Security benefits, which constitute most of the retirement income of most senior citizens, will fall by 21 percent. This shortfall has been predicted for three decades, and yet Congress has done nothing. In Fixing Social Security, R. Douglas Arnold applies the model of Congressional…
Civic Feedbacks
Democracy is premised on the ability of individuals, often working with others, to influence policies affecting them. However, existing theory cannot always explain why some organized efforts are more influential than others. We introduce the concept of civic feedbacks, arguing that the ways organizations engage individuals in collective action have feedback effects that shape the strategic position of organizations, the options available to lead…
Policy Feedback
Although the idea that existing policies can have major effects on politics and policy development is hardly new, the last three decades witnessed a major expansion of policy feedback scholarship, which focuses on the mechanisms through which existing policies shape politics and policy development. Starting with a discussion of the origins of the concept of policy feedback, this element explores early and more recent contributions of the policy f…
The Affordable Care Act and Mass Policy Feedbacks
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has allowed researchers to examine mass policy feedback effects—how public policies affect individuals' attitudes and political behaviors—in real time while using causal models. These efforts help address criticisms of the extant feedbacks literature and have revealed new policy feedback effects and new information on the conditions under which policy feedbacks occur. The ACA case also raises empirical and theoretica…
Tax Designs and Tax Attitudes
The watchword of the policy feedbacks approach to political analysis – that politics shapes policy – suggests that the way in which taxes are designed may influence how the public feels about various levies: their support for those taxes, their perceptions of fairness, and their willingness to pay them. Hypotheses about the design features of different taxes Americans pay, including tax regressivity or progressivity, the manner in which they are …
Reassessing the Conventional Wisdom
A family tragedy enables a social policy scholar to examine how American social assistance works from the recipient perspective. The experience results in a reexamination of conventional wisdom around US social policy. In contrast to the revisionist account, meager social assistance programs are still pretty meager. Despite the bifurcation between deserving and undeserving beneficiaries, some deserving populations are swept into catch-all means-t…
Family Story as Political Science
Intimate ethnography presents a number of challenges: How could I write about my own family in a way that was true to their experience but also an “objective” report? How could I convey telling details without robbing my family of their privacy? How could I rein in my emotions to report their story, and did I pick and choose facts to protect them or to make them more sympathetic? How could I generalize from their experience to that of millions of…
The Durability of Pierson’s Theory about the Durability of the Welfare State
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Constituencies and Public Opinion
Public opinion alone cannot explain the trajectory of American social policy, but it is crucial in explaining the nature of social provision. Although most Americans are not highly knowledgeable about or interested in politics, and although their opinions are often shaped by misinformation, misperception, and framing effects, public opinion can offer broad guidance to politicians. Indeed, American social policy reflects majority preferences in a …
State Fiscal Policy during the Great Recession
Plunging tax revenues and soaring social program demand during the Great Recession created state budget shortfalls of historic magnitude. After reviewing states' aggregate reaction to the economic downturn, we conduct an original analysis of the recession's budgetary impact on the states and their policy responses. Economic factors such as falling personal income and home values explain much of the variation in the recession's impact. State budge…
Policy Makes Mass Politics
This review examines policy feedback effects among the mass public, with a focus on social policies in the United States and Europe. It shows that existing policies feed back into the political system, shaping subsequent policy outcomes. Policies exert this effect by altering not only the capacities, interests, and beliefs of political elites and states but also those of the public. Public policies can shape political participation and attitudes.…
The Delegated Welfare StateMedicare, Markets, and the Governance of Social Policy
'The Delegated Welfare State' tackles the federal government's increasing propensity in recent times to outsource governmental functions to the private sector.
Policy Feedbacks and the Impact of Policy Designs on Public Opinion
A recently developed analytic approach — policy feedback effects — provides health policy analysts with a crucial new tool for understanding the politics of health policy. Three cases — senior citizens' opposition to the Obama health care reform, tax breaks for employer-provided health insurance, and the Medicare Part D prescription drug program — demonstrate how policy designs affect subsequent policy outcomes. To differing degrees, the three ca…
Politics and Aging in the United States
The Public's Role in Winner-Take-All Politics
Chapter Four. Parties, Electoral Participation, and Shifting Voting Blocs
Racial Threat”, Partisan Climate, and Direct Democracy
Federalism and the Politics of Old-Age Care in Germany and the United States
Until the early 1990s, Germany and the United States had similar systems of long-term care. At that time, Germany created a new social insurance program, whereas American reform efforts stalled. As conventional explanations of social policies—rooted in objective conditions, policy legacies, interest group mobilization, and party politics—fail to explain the diverging trajectories, the authors show how differing federal structures shaped reform ef…
The Political Life of Medicare
Book Review| December 01 2004 The Political Life of Medicare Jonathan Oberlander. The Political Life of Medicare.Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. 288 pp. $45.00 cloth; $18.00 paper. Andrea Louise Campbell Andrea Louise Campbell Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google J Health Polit Policy Law (2004) 29 (6): 1238–1241. https://doi.org/10.1215/03616878-29-6-1238 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video …
How Policies Make Citizens
LIST OF FIGURES ix LIST OF TABLES xi ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xv CHAPTER ONE Introduction: The Reciprocal Participation-Policy Relationship 1 CHAPTER TWO Overview: Rising Senior Participation and the Growth of the American Welfare State 14 CHAPTER THREE A Model of Senior Citizen Political Participation 38 CHAPTER FOUR Senior Citizen Participation and Policy over ime 65 CHAPTER FIVE Policy Threat and Seniors' Distinctive Political Voice 93 CHAPTER SIX Cong…
Participatory Reactions to Policy Threats
Self-Interest, Social Security, and the Distinctive Participation Patterns of Senior Citizens
Decades of participation research show that political activity increases with income, but the participation of senior citizens specifically with regard to Social Security poses an exception to this pattern. Social Security-oriented participation decreases as income rises, in part because lower-income seniors are more dependent on the program. The negative income-participation gradient is especially pronounced for letter writing about the program,…
Self-Interest, Social Security, and the Distinctive Participation Patterns of Senior Citizens
Decades of participation research show that political activity increases with income, but the participation of senior citizens specifically with regard to Social Security poses an exception to this pattern. Social Security-oriented participation decreases as income rises, in part because lower-income seniors are more dependent on the program. The negative income-participation gradient is especially pronounced for letter writing about the program,…
Racial Threat”, Partisan Climate, and Direct Democracy
Participatory Reactions to Policy Threats
Federalism and the Politics of Old-Age Care in Germany and the United States
Until the early 1990s, Germany and the United States had similar systems of long-term care. At that time, Germany created a new social insurance program, whereas American reform efforts stalled. As conventional explanations of social policies—rooted in objective conditions, policy legacies, interest group mobilization, and party politics—fail to explain the diverging trajectories, the authors show how differing federal structures shaped reform ef…
How Policies Make Citizens
LIST OF FIGURES ix LIST OF TABLES xi ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xv CHAPTER ONE Introduction: The Reciprocal Participation-Policy Relationship 1 CHAPTER TWO Overview: Rising Senior Participation and the Growth of the American Welfare State 14 CHAPTER THREE A Model of Senior Citizen Political Participation 38 CHAPTER FOUR Senior Citizen Participation and Policy over ime 65 CHAPTER FIVE Policy Threat and Seniors' Distinctive Political Voice 93 CHAPTER SIX Cong…
The Public's Role in Winner-Take-All Politics
Civic Feedbacks
Democracy is premised on the ability of individuals, often working with others, to influence policies affecting them. However, existing theory cannot always explain why some organized efforts are more influential than others. We introduce the concept of civic feedbacks, arguing that the ways organizations engage individuals in collective action have feedback effects that shape the strategic position of organizations, the options available to lead…
State Fiscal Policy during the Great Recession
Plunging tax revenues and soaring social program demand during the Great Recession created state budget shortfalls of historic magnitude. After reviewing states' aggregate reaction to the economic downturn, we conduct an original analysis of the recession's budgetary impact on the states and their policy responses. Economic factors such as falling personal income and home values explain much of the variation in the recession's impact. State budge…
Tax Designs and Tax Attitudes
The watchword of the policy feedbacks approach to political analysis – that politics shapes policy – suggests that the way in which taxes are designed may influence how the public feels about various levies: their support for those taxes, their perceptions of fairness, and their willingness to pay them. Hypotheses about the design features of different taxes Americans pay, including tax regressivity or progressivity, the manner in which they are …
Reassessing the Conventional Wisdom
A family tragedy enables a social policy scholar to examine how American social assistance works from the recipient perspective. The experience results in a reexamination of conventional wisdom around US social policy. In contrast to the revisionist account, meager social assistance programs are still pretty meager. Despite the bifurcation between deserving and undeserving beneficiaries, some deserving populations are swept into catch-all means-t…
Family Story as Political Science
Intimate ethnography presents a number of challenges: How could I write about my own family in a way that was true to their experience but also an “objective” report? How could I convey telling details without robbing my family of their privacy? How could I rein in my emotions to report their story, and did I pick and choose facts to protect them or to make them more sympathetic? How could I generalize from their experience to that of millions of…
The Durability of Pierson’s Theory about the Durability of the Welfare State
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Tools of Subnational Democratic Subversion
In an era of heightened partisan polarization, subnational officials in the United States have adopted a variety of tools that attenuate the connection between citizen preferences, election results, and policy outcomes. Building on recent scholarship in American and comparative politics, we identify promising avenues for future research on subnational democratic subversion. First, we broaden the list of tools beyond election administration and di…
Self-Interest, Social Security, and the Distinctive Participation Patterns of Senior Citizens
Decades of participation research show that political activity increases with income, but the participation of senior citizens specifically with regard to Social Security poses an exception to this pattern. Social Security-oriented participation decreases as income rises, in part because lower-income seniors are more dependent on the program. The negative income-participation gradient is especially pronounced for letter writing about the program,…
How Policies Make Citizens
LIST OF FIGURES ix LIST OF TABLES xi ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xv CHAPTER ONE Introduction: The Reciprocal Participation-Policy Relationship 1 CHAPTER TWO Overview: Rising Senior Participation and the Growth of the American Welfare State 14 CHAPTER THREE A Model of Senior Citizen Political Participation 38 CHAPTER FOUR Senior Citizen Participation and Policy over ime 65 CHAPTER FIVE Policy Threat and Seniors' Distinctive Political Voice 93 CHAPTER SIX Cong…
Participatory Reactions to Policy Threats
The Political Life of Medicare
Book Review| December 01 2004 The Political Life of Medicare Jonathan Oberlander. The Political Life of Medicare.Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. 288 pp. $45.00 cloth; $18.00 paper. Andrea Louise Campbell Andrea Louise Campbell Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google J Health Polit Policy Law (2004) 29 (6): 1238–1241. https://doi.org/10.1215/03616878-29-6-1238 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video …
Federalism and the Politics of Old-Age Care in Germany and the United States
Until the early 1990s, Germany and the United States had similar systems of long-term care. At that time, Germany created a new social insurance program, whereas American reform efforts stalled. As conventional explanations of social policies—rooted in objective conditions, policy legacies, interest group mobilization, and party politics—fail to explain the diverging trajectories, the authors show how differing federal structures shaped reform ef…
Racial Threat”, Partisan Climate, and Direct Democracy
Chapter Four. Parties, Electoral Participation, and Shifting Voting Blocs
The Public's Role in Winner-Take-All Politics
The Delegated Welfare StateMedicare, Markets, and the Governance of Social Policy
'The Delegated Welfare State' tackles the federal government's increasing propensity in recent times to outsource governmental functions to the private sector.
Policy Feedbacks and the Impact of Policy Designs on Public Opinion
A recently developed analytic approach — policy feedback effects — provides health policy analysts with a crucial new tool for understanding the politics of health policy. Three cases — senior citizens' opposition to the Obama health care reform, tax breaks for employer-provided health insurance, and the Medicare Part D prescription drug program — demonstrate how policy designs affect subsequent policy outcomes. To differing degrees, the three ca…
Politics and Aging in the United States
Policy Makes Mass Politics
This review examines policy feedback effects among the mass public, with a focus on social policies in the United States and Europe. It shows that existing policies feed back into the political system, shaping subsequent policy outcomes. Policies exert this effect by altering not only the capacities, interests, and beliefs of political elites and states but also those of the public. Public policies can shape political participation and attitudes.…
Constituencies and Public Opinion
Public opinion alone cannot explain the trajectory of American social policy, but it is crucial in explaining the nature of social provision. Although most Americans are not highly knowledgeable about or interested in politics, and although their opinions are often shaped by misinformation, misperception, and framing effects, public opinion can offer broad guidance to politicians. Indeed, American social policy reflects majority preferences in a …
State Fiscal Policy during the Great Recession
Plunging tax revenues and soaring social program demand during the Great Recession created state budget shortfalls of historic magnitude. After reviewing states' aggregate reaction to the economic downturn, we conduct an original analysis of the recession's budgetary impact on the states and their policy responses. Economic factors such as falling personal income and home values explain much of the variation in the recession's impact. State budge…
Reassessing the Conventional Wisdom
A family tragedy enables a social policy scholar to examine how American social assistance works from the recipient perspective. The experience results in a reexamination of conventional wisdom around US social policy. In contrast to the revisionist account, meager social assistance programs are still pretty meager. Despite the bifurcation between deserving and undeserving beneficiaries, some deserving populations are swept into catch-all means-t…
Family Story as Political Science
Intimate ethnography presents a number of challenges: How could I write about my own family in a way that was true to their experience but also an “objective” report? How could I convey telling details without robbing my family of their privacy? How could I rein in my emotions to report their story, and did I pick and choose facts to protect them or to make them more sympathetic? How could I generalize from their experience to that of millions of…
The Durability of Pierson’s Theory about the Durability of the Welfare State
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Tax Designs and Tax Attitudes
The watchword of the policy feedbacks approach to political analysis – that politics shapes policy – suggests that the way in which taxes are designed may influence how the public feels about various levies: their support for those taxes, their perceptions of fairness, and their willingness to pay them. Hypotheses about the design features of different taxes Americans pay, including tax regressivity or progressivity, the manner in which they are …
The Affordable Care Act and Mass Policy Feedbacks
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has allowed researchers to examine mass policy feedback effects—how public policies affect individuals' attitudes and political behaviors—in real time while using causal models. These efforts help address criticisms of the extant feedbacks literature and have revealed new policy feedback effects and new information on the conditions under which policy feedbacks occur. The ACA case also raises empirical and theoretica…
Policy Feedback
Although the idea that existing policies can have major effects on politics and policy development is hardly new, the last three decades witnessed a major expansion of policy feedback scholarship, which focuses on the mechanisms through which existing policies shape politics and policy development. Starting with a discussion of the origins of the concept of policy feedback, this element explores early and more recent contributions of the policy f…
Civic Feedbacks
Democracy is premised on the ability of individuals, often working with others, to influence policies affecting them. However, existing theory cannot always explain why some organized efforts are more influential than others. We introduce the concept of civic feedbacks, arguing that the ways organizations engage individuals in collective action have feedback effects that shape the strategic position of organizations, the options available to lead…
Dereliction of Duty
In 2033, American social policy will reach a crossroads when the trust fund for its largest and most successful program runs out. Without Congressional action, Social Security benefits, which constitute most of the retirement income of most senior citizens, will fall by 21 percent. This shortfall has been predicted for three decades, and yet Congress has done nothing. In Fixing Social Security, R. Douglas Arnold applies the model of Congressional…
Tools of Subnational Democratic Subversion
In an era of heightened partisan polarization, subnational officials in the United States have adopted a variety of tools that attenuate the connection between citizen preferences, election results, and policy outcomes. Building on recent scholarship in American and comparative politics, we identify promising avenues for future research on subnational democratic subversion. First, we broaden the list of tools beyond election administration and di…
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