Prof. Andrea Louise Campbell

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.