Advocating for Medicaid Expansion in Republican States
Overcoming “Fractious Federalism” in the Statehouse and Ballot Box
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6374693 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jake Haselswerdt (0000-0002-8527-0506, University of Missouri) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 459-483 |
| Publication date | 2021-07-26 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Publius The Journal of Federalism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0048-5950 • E-ISSN: 1747-7107 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/publius/pjab018 |
| OpenAlex | W3184906119 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 25 |
Partisan and ideological polarization have been major barriers to the implementation of the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion in Republican-controlled states. Scholars have referred to this situation as “fractious federalism,” with Republican state policymakers toeing the national party line in refusing to cooperate with a major policy initiative. In some cases, however, diverse advocacy coalitions have overcome fractious federalism to pass expansion legislation in deeply Republican states. More recently, such coalitions have resorted to ballot initiative campaigns as another means of overcoming such polarization, and won impressive victories in a series of “deep red” states. Drawing on forty-four interviews with people involved in expansion advocacy in eleven states, I report important insights on the formation and activities of these coalitions in both the legislative and ballot initiative eras of Medicaid expansion politics
Ballot · Federalism · Health care · Ideology · Legislation · Legislature · Medicaid · Polarization (electrochemistry · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science · Voting · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Policy Transfer and Learning · Public Policy and Administration Research · Law · Public Administration
Direct Legislation
Demanding Choices
Why States Expand Medicaid
Opting In, Opting Out
Interest Group Conflict Over Medicaid Expansion
Money, Politics, and Morality in the Framing of Medicaid Expansion
Race, Politics, and the Affordable Care Act
State Policy Activism via Direct Democracy in Response to Federal Partisan Polarization
Institutions and Policy Representation in the States
The Politics of Need
Ideology, Party, and Opinion
Implementing Health Reform
The Administrative Presidency and Fractious Federalism
State Policy Innovation and the Federalism Implications of Direct Democracy
Medicaid Expansion during the Trump Presidency
Is Spending More Potent For or Against a Proposition? Evidence from Ballot Measures
The Minimal Persuasive Effects of Campaign Contact in General Elections
Shortcuts Versus Encyclopedias
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| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |