Andrea Louise Campbell
Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science
Director of Undergraduate Studies
American politics; public opinion; political behavior; inequality; policy feedbacks; social policy; health policy; tax policy.
Biography
Andrea Louise Campbell is the Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science. 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 Policy Feedback: How Policies Shape Politics with Daniel Béland and R. Kent Weaver (Cambridge Elements in Public Policy, 2022); Trapped in America's Safety Net: One Family's Struggle (Chicago, 2014); The Delegated Welfare State: Medicare, Markets, and the Governance of Social Provision with Kimberly J. Morgan (Oxford, 2011); and How Policies Make Citizens: Senior Citizen Activism and the American Welfare State (Princeton, 2003). A fifth book, Taxation and Resentment: Race, Party, and Class in American Tax Attitudes, will be published by Princeton University Press in June 2025. Her research has appeared in the American Political Science Review, Political Behavior, Comparative Political Studies, Perspectives on Politics, Politics & Society, Studies in American Political Development, and Health Affairs, among others.
Campbell holds an AB degree from Harvard and a PhD from UC Berkeley. Her research has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and Russell Sage Foundation and by residential fellowships at the Library of Congress Kluge Center, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholars in Health Policy Research program. She was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2016 and the National Academy of Social Insurance in 2007, and served on the National Academy of Sciences Commission on the Fiscal Future of the United States. Recent awards include the Wildavsky Enduring Contribution Award (2021) for her first book, How Policies Make Citizens, and the Excellence in Mentoring Award (2020), both from the American Political Science Association Public Policy section. In 2024 she was awarded MIT’s MacVicar Fellowship for contributions to undergraduate education.
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 Delegated Welfare State, utilizes a case study of Medicare, from its inception through the prescription drug reform of 2003 (with an afterword 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 book, Trapped in America’s Safety Net: One Family’s Struggle, grew out of her April 2012 New York Times op-ed piece (cited by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in her Affordable Care Act opinion) and uses her family’s experience to illustrate how American means-tested social programs work on the ground. Professor Campbell is currently working on a fourth major project examining the interplay between policy and public opinion in the development and politics of American taxation over time.
Recent Publications
"Trapped in America's Safety Net: One Family's Struggle" University Press of Chicago, 2014
“The Social, Political, and Economic Effects of the Affordable Care Act: Introduction to the Issue,” with Lara Shore-Sheppard. RSF: Russell Sage Foundation Journal 6; 2 (June 2020): 1-40.
“The Affordable Care Act and Mass Policy Feedbacks.” Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 45; 4 (August 2020): 567-80.
“Criminal Justice or Public Health? A Comparison of the Representation of the Crack Cocaine and Opioid Epidemics in the Media” with Carmel Shachar, Tess Wise, and Gali Katznelson. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 45; 2 (April 2020): 211-39.
“Tax Designs and Tax Attitudes.” The Forum 16; 3 (October
2018): 369-98.
“Family Story as Political Science: Reflections on Writing Trapped in America’s Safety Net,” Perspectives on Politics 13; 4 (December 2015): 1043-52.
“Reassessing the Conventional Wisdom: Entitlements from the Inside,” The Forum 13 (1) (2015): 105-118.
“Policy Makes Mass Politics,” Annual Review of Political Science 15 (2012): 333-51.
“America the Undertaxed,” Foreign Affairs 91 (September/October 2012): 99-112.
Teaching
| 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 |
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Biography
Andrea Louise Campbell is the Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science. 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 Policy Feedback: How Policies Shape Politics with Daniel Béland and R. Kent Weaver (Cambridge Elements in Public Policy, 2022); Trapped in America's Safety Net: One Family's Struggle (Chicago, 2014); The Delegated Welfare State: Medicare, Markets, and the Governance of Social Provision with Kimberly J. Morgan (Oxford, 2011); and How Policies Make Citizens: Senior Citizen Activism and the American Welfare State (Princeton, 2003). A fifth book, Taxation and Resentment: Race, Party, and Class in American Tax Attitudes, will be published by Princeton University Press in June 2025. Her research has appeared in the American Political Science Review, Political Behavior, Comparative Political Studies, Perspectives on Politics, Politics & Society, Studies in American Political Development, and Health Affairs, among others.
Campbell holds an AB degree from Harvard and a PhD from UC Berkeley. Her research has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and Russell Sage Foundation and by residential fellowships at the Library of Congress Kluge Center, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholars in Health Policy Research program. She was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2016 and the National Academy of Social Insurance in 2007, and served on the National Academy of Sciences Commission on the Fiscal Future of the United States. Recent awards include the Wildavsky Enduring Contribution Award (2021) for her first book, How Policies Make Citizens, and the Excellence in Mentoring Award (2020), both from the American Political Science Association Public Policy section. In 2024 she was awarded MIT’s MacVicar Fellowship for contributions to undergraduate education.
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 Delegated Welfare State, utilizes a case study of Medicare, from its inception through the prescription drug reform of 2003 (with an afterword 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 book, Trapped in America’s Safety Net: One Family’s Struggle, grew out of her April 2012 New York Times op-ed piece (cited by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in her Affordable Care Act opinion) and uses her family’s experience to illustrate how American means-tested social programs work on the ground. Professor Campbell is currently working on a fourth major project examining the interplay between policy and public opinion in the development and politics of American taxation over time.
Recent Publications
"Trapped in America's Safety Net: One Family's Struggle" University Press of Chicago, 2014
“The Social, Political, and Economic Effects of the Affordable Care Act: Introduction to the Issue,” with Lara Shore-Sheppard. RSF: Russell Sage Foundation Journal 6; 2 (June 2020): 1-40.
“The Affordable Care Act and Mass Policy Feedbacks.” Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 45; 4 (August 2020): 567-80.
“Criminal Justice or Public Health? A Comparison of the Representation of the Crack Cocaine and Opioid Epidemics in the Media” with Carmel Shachar, Tess Wise, and Gali Katznelson. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 45; 2 (April 2020): 211-39.
“Tax Designs and Tax Attitudes.” The Forum 16; 3 (October
2018): 369-98.
“Family Story as Political Science: Reflections on Writing Trapped in America’s Safety Net,” Perspectives on Politics 13; 4 (December 2015): 1043-52.
“Reassessing the Conventional Wisdom: Entitlements from the Inside,” The Forum 13 (1) (2015): 105-118.
“Policy Makes Mass Politics,” Annual Review of Political Science 15 (2012): 333-51.
“America the Undertaxed,” Foreign Affairs 91 (September/October 2012): 99-112.
Teaching
| 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 |