September 2020
Andrea Louise Campbell
Department of Political Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA 02139 [email protected]
Academic Positions
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Political Science Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science, 2015 – Faculty Affiliate, Center for Constructive Communication, MIT Media Lab, 2020 – Department head, 2015-19 Professor, 2012 - 2015 Associate Professor, 2005-12; tenured 2008 Alfred Henry and Jean Morrison Hayes Career Development Chair, 2006-09
Harvard University, Department of Government Assistant Professor, 2000-05 Lecturer, 1999-2000
Education
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, Political Science, December 2000 M.A. University of California, Berkeley, Political Science, June 1994 A.B. Harvard University, Social Studies, magna cum laude, June 1988
Books
Trapped in America’s Safety Net: One Family’s Struggle. University of Chicago Press, 2014. Featured in: Harvard Magazine; Washington Post Wonkblog; Vox; TIME Magazine; MIT Technology Review; MIT News; New Books in Political Science podcast; Faculti Media
The Delegated Welfare State: Medicare, Markets, and the Governance of American Social Policy, with Kimberly J. Morgan. Oxford University Press, 2011.
How Policies Make Citizens: Senior Citizen Activism and the American Welfare State. Princeton University Press, 2003. Paperback edition, 2005.
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Textbook
We the People: An Introduction to American Politics, with Benjamin Ginsberg, Theodore J. Lowi, Caroline J. Tolbert, and Margaret Weir. W.W. Norton, beginning 12th edition, 2019.
Articles
“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.
“Policy Feedbacks,” Oxford Bibliographies in Political Science. Available at http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199756223/obo- 9780199756223-0235.xml (January 2018).
“Understanding What Makes Americans Dissatisfied With Their Health Care System: An International Comparison,” with Joachim Hero, Robert Blendon, and Alan Zaslavsky, Health Affairs (March 2016).
“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.
“The Durability of Pierson’s Theory about the Durability of the Welfare State,” symposium on the 20th anniversary of Paul Pierson’s Dismantling the Welfare State, PS: Political Science & Politics 48; 2 (April 2015): 284-88.
"Tax Attitudes in the Obama Era," Tax Law Review 67; 4 (Summer 2014): 647-68.
“State Fiscal Policy during the Great Recession: Budgetary Impacts and Policy Responses,” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 650 (November 2013).
“JHPPL Workshop on Medicaid Fiscal and Governance Issues: Objectives and Themes,” with Peter V. Long. Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law 38;4 (August 2013): 841-44.
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“Policy Makes Mass Politics,” Annual Review of Political Science 15 (2012): 333-51.
“America the Undertaxed,” Foreign Affairs 91 (September/October 2012): 99-112. • Most viewed piece in issue • Subject of debate, “Are Taxes Too Damn High? The Debate about the Rate,” with critique by Grover Norquist, “Cut and Grow,” Foreign Affairs 91 (Nov/Dec 2012): 156- 9, and my response, Foreign Affairs 91 (Nov/Dec 2012): 160-2.
“Policy Feedbacks and the Impact of Policy Designs on Public Opinion,” Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 36 (December 2011): 961-73.
"The 10 Percent Solution: Why Progressives Can Stop Worrying and Love a Value-Added Tax." Democracy 19 (Winter 2011), 54-63.
“Delegated Governance in the Affordable Care Act of 2010,” with Kimberly J. Morgan (lead author). Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 36 (June 2011): 387-91.
“A Partisan Divide on the Uninsured,” with Tara Sussman (lead author), John Benson, Robert Blendon, and Alan Zaslavsky. Health Affairs 29 (March 2010): 706-11.
“The Public’s Role in Winner-Take-All Politics.” Politics & Society 38 (June 2010): 227-32.
“Is the Economic Crisis Driving Wedges between Young and Old? Rich and Poor?” Generations 33 (Fall 2009): 47-53.
“Will Americans Support the Individual Mandate?” with Tara Sussman (lead author) and Robert Blendon. Health Affairs 28 (April 2009): W501-9.
“’Racial Threat,’ Partisan Climate, and Direct Democracy: Contextual Effects in Three California Initiatives,” with Cara Wong and Jack Citrin. Political Behavior 28 (June 2006): 129- 150.
“Financing the Welfare State: Elite Politics and the Decline of the Social Insurance Model in America,” with Kimberly Morgan. Studies in American Political Development 19 (October 2005): 173-95.
“Federalism and the Politics of Old-Age Care in Germany and the United States,” with Kimberly Morgan. Comparative Political Studies 38 (October 2005): 887-914.
“Participatory Reactions to Policy Threats: Senior Citizens and the Defense of Social Security and Medicare.” Political Behavior 25 (March 2003): 29-49.
“Self-Interest, Social Security, and the Distinctive Participation Patterns of Senior Citizens.” American Political Science Review 96 (September 2002): 565-74. Campbell, p. 4
Book Chapters
“Public Opinion and Public Policy,” with Elizabeth Rigby, in New Directions in Public Opinion, 3rd ed., ed. Adam J. Berinsky (Routledge, 2019).
“Social Policy and Civic Participation,” in Resources, Engagement, and Recruitment: New Advances in the Study of Civic Voluntarism,” (honoring in the 20th anniversary of the publication of Voice and Equality by Sidney Verba, Kay Lehman Schlozman, and Henry E. Brady), ed. Casey A. Klofstad (Temple University Press, 2016).
“Independence and Freedom: Public Opinion and the Politics of Medicare and Medicaid” in Medicare and Medicaid at Fifty ed. Keith Wailoo, Alan Cohen, Julian Zelizer, and David Colby (Oxford University Press, 2015).
“Public Opinion and Public Policy,” with Elizabeth Rigby, in New Directions in Public Opinion, 2nd ed., ed. Adam J. Berinsky (Routledge, 2015).
“Social Security, the Great Recession, and the ‘Entitlements Problem’” in The New Politics of Old Age Policy, 3rd edition, ed. by Robert Hudson (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014).
“Delegated Governance in Health Policy,” with Kimberly J. Morgan in Health Politics and Policy, 5th ed. Jim Morone and Dan Ehlke (Cengage, 2014).
“The Health Care Case in the Public Mind: Opinion on the Supreme Court and Health Reform in a Polarized Era,” with Nathaniel Persily, in The Health Care Case: The Supreme Court’s Decision and Its Implications, edited by Nathaniel Persily, Gillian Metzger, and Trevor Morrison (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2013). • Featured in Adam Liptak, “Health Care Case Helped Law but Hurt Supreme Court, Study Finds” New York Times, October 2, 2012, p. A20. • Discussed in Linda Greenhouse, “The Sound of Silence,” New York Times Opinionator blog, October 31, 2012.
“Constituencies and Public Opinion,” with Michael W. Sances, in Oxford Handbook of Social Policy, eds. Daniel Béland, Christopher Howard, and Kimberly Morgan, Oxford University Press, 2013.
“Public Opinion and Public Policy,” in New Directions in Public Opinion, ed. Adam J. Berinsky. Routledge, 2011.
“Paying America’s Way: The Fraught Politics of Taxes, Investments, and Budgetary Responsibility,” in Reaching for a New Deal: Ambitious Governance, Economic Meltdown, and Polarized Politics in Obama's First Two Years, eds. Theda Skocpol and Larry Jacobs. Russell Sage, 2011.
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“Politics and Aging in the United States,” with Robert H. Binstock, in Handbook of Aging and the Social Sciences, 7th edition, ed. Robert H. Binstock and Linda K. George, et al. Elsevier, 2010.
“Social Security: Political Resilience in the Face of Conservative Strides,” with Ryan King, in The New Politics of Old-Age Policy, 2nd edition, ed. Robert Hudson. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.
“What Americans Think of Taxes,” in The New Fiscal Sociology, ed. Monica Prasad, Isaac Martin, and Ajay Mehrotra. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
“A New Macropolitics of Aging? The Case of the USA, Older Voters, and AARP” in Altern, Familie, Zivilgesellshaft und Politik (Aging, Family, Civil Society, Politics), ed. Jürgen Kocka, Martin Kohli and Wolfgang Streeck. Nova Acta Leopoldina series. Stuttgart: Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft, 2009.
“Universalism, Targeting, and Participation,” in Remaking America: Democracy and Public Policy in an Age of Inequality, ed. Joe Soss, Jacob S. Hacker, and Suzanne Mettler. Russell Sage Foundation, 2007.
“Parties, Electoral Participation, and Shifting Voting Blocs,” in The Transformation of American Politics: Activist Government and the Rise of Conservatism, ed. Paul Pierson and Theda Skocpol. Princeton University Press, 2007.
“Immigration and California Politics,” Jack Citrin and Andrea L. Campbell, in Governing the Golden State: Politics, Government and Public Policy in California, ed. Gerald C. Lubenow and Bruce E. Cain (Berkeley, CA: IGS Press, 1997; 2nd edition 2005).
Other Publications and Projects
“Why the U.S. Tax System is So Complicated – But Americans Are Proud to Pay Taxes Anyway,” with Vanessa Williamson. Monkey Cage, Washington Post, April 12, 2018.
“The Republican tax bill will make it harder for states and cities to pay their bills,” Monkey Cage, Washington Post, December 21, 2017.
“Trump’s Tax Plan for the One Percent,” Foreign Affairs.com, May 16, 2017. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2017-05-16/trumps-tax-plan-one-percent
Review of White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America by Joan C. Williams (Harvard Business Review Press, 2017), Harvard Magazine, July-August 2017.
“The Siren Song of the Flat Tax,” Op-Ed with Vanessa Williamson, The Morning Consult, October 21, 2015. http://morningconsult.com/opinions/the-siren-song-of-the-flat-tax/.
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“Has Child Care Policy Finally Come of Age?” The American Prospect 26; 2 (25th Anniversary edition, Spring 2015): 122-124.
Review of Caring for Our Own: Why There is No Political Demand for New American Social Welfare Rights by Sandra R. Levitsky (Oxford University Press, 2014). American Journal of Sociology 120; 6 (May 2015).
“The Substance of Policy Areas and Representation: Some Observations about Social Policy and Tax Policy,” The Democracy Papers, Anxieties of Democracy Program, Social Science Research Council, http://thedemocracypapers.ssrc.org/about.
Review of The Undeserving Rich: American Beliefs about Inequality, Opportunity, and Redistribution by Leslie McCall (Cambridge University Press, 2013). Public Opinion Quarterly 78; 1 (Spring 2014): 194-196.
“2012 NORC Presidential Election Study Research Highlights,” with Mark Hansen and Stephen Ansolabehere, November 2012.
“America’s Low Taxes in Comparative Perspective,” Scholars Strategy Network Key Findings, November 2012.
“America the Politically Unequal.” Review of The Unheavenly Chorus by Kay Lehman Schlozman, Sidney Verba, and Henry E. Brady. Harvard Magazine, September/October 2012.
“Il a démocratisé l’assurance maladie,” Alternatives Internationales 56 (September 2012): 30-31.
“The Future of U.S. Healthcare.” Boston Review, August 13, 2012.
“Will Time Heal Health Care Wounds?” solicited New York Times Campaign Stops blog post, June 28, 2012.
“Down the Insurance Rabbit Hole.” Op-ed, New York Times, April 4, 2012.
• Cited by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in her concurring opinion in the Supreme Court’s ruling on the Affordable Care Act, June 28, 2012.
“Using the Private Sector to Deliver Public Benefits,” with Kimberly J. Morgan, Scholars Strategy Network Key Findings, May 2012.
“How Social Security Encourages Older Americans to be Active Citizens,” Scholars Strategy Network Key Findings, January 2012.
“Why Seniors Like Traditional Medicare,” solicited op-ed for New York Times Room for Debate discussion, “Can Private Insurers Fix Medicare,” April 5, 2011.
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“What the Social Security Experience Tells Us about Taxes Americans Can Embrace,” Scholars Strategy Network paper, February 2010. http://www.scholarsstrategynetwork.org/papers.html.
Review of Class War? What Americans Really Think about Economic Inequality by Benjamin I. Page and Lawrence R. Jacobs (University of Chicago Press, 2009). Public Opinion Quarterly 74, 3 (Winter 2010), 590-93.
Book Forum review of Reforms at Risk: What Happens after Major Policy Changes Are Enacted by Eric Patashnik (Princeton University Press, 2008). Journal of Policy History 22 (Spring 2010), 256-61.
“Whose ‘Gray Power’? Elderly Voters, Elderly Lobbies, and Welfare Reform in Italy and the US” with Julia F. Lynch. Italian Politics and Society No. 53 (Summer 2000).
“The Non-distinctiveness of Senior Voters in the 2004 Election.” Public Policy and Aging Report 15 (Winter 2005): 1, 3-6.
Review of The Political Life of Medicare by Jonathan Oberlander (University of Chicago Press, 2003). Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law 29 (December 2004): 1238-41.
“Down Goes Their Clout: The New Medicare Law Could Leave the AARP Toothless and the Elderly Upstaged by Business Lobbies,” with Theda Skocpol. Newsday (30 November 2003): A28-29.
Intellectual biography of Henry E. Brady, American Political Scientists: A Dictionary, 2d ed., ed. Charles Lockhart and Glenn Utter. Greenwood Press, 2002.
Dataset
Roper Social and Political Trends Data, 1973 – 1994. Henry E. Brady, Robert D. Putnam, Andrea L. Campbell, Laurel Elms, Steven Yonish, and Dorie Apollonio. (Storrs, CT: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, distributor, 2000).
Work in Progress
“State Policy Choice and Mental Health under COVID-19,” with Michael Sances. Proposal accepted for special issue of the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law on dimensions of equity in the coronavirus pandemic.
“Civic Feedbacks: Linking Participation, Organizational Strategy, and Influence over Public Policy,” with Hahrie Han and Elizabeth McKenna.
How Americans Think about Taxes. Book manuscript under advanced contract from Princeton University Press. Campbell, p. 8
Grants
Russell Sage Foundation, Special Initiative on the Social and Political Effects of the Great Recession, “Dire States: Fiscal Effects and Policy Choices during the Great Recession,” February 2012 – December 2013 ($86,013).
National Science Foundation, “Do Policies Shape Mass Politics? The Impact of Medicare Reform on Senior Citizens’ Attitudes and Political Participation,” with Kimberly J. Morgan, Faculty Associate, February 2007 – January 2010 (SES-0647857; $130,525).
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Investigator Award in Health Policy Research, “The Medicare Modernization Act of 2003: Ideologies, Interests, and Policy Feedbacks in the Contemporary Politics of Medicare” with Kimberly J. Morgan, June 2006 – May 2009 ($275,000).
Clark Research Fund, Harvard University, “Federalism and Democratic Citizenship,” 2003-05.
William F. Milton Fund, Harvard University, “Political Participation and Social Policy: The Political Consequences of Program Design,” 2001-02.
Clark Research Fund, Harvard University, “Political Participation and Social Policy: The Political Consequences of Program Design,” 1999.
National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, 1997.
Fellowships and Awards
Excellence in Mentoring Award, Public Policy Organized Section, American Political Science Association, 2020. Library of Congress, Kluge Chair in American Law and Governance, Fall 2019. American Academy of Arts and Sciences, inducted 2016. Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Katherine Hampson Bessell Fellow, 2012-13. National Academy of Social Insurance, inducted 2007. Emerging Scholar Award, Political Organizations and Parties Section, American Political Science Association, 2006. John L. Loeb Associate Professorship, Harvard University, 2005 (declined). Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy, Yale University, 2001-2003. American Political Science Association, Lasswell Dissertation Award, honorable mention, 2002. Levenson Teaching Award nominee, Harvard University, Spring 2001, Spring 2003. National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 1994-1997. Graduate Examination in Political Behavior passed with Distinction, 1995. Phi Beta Kappa, 1988
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Commissions and Advisory Boards
Russell Sage Foundation, Initiative on the Social, Economic and Political Effects of the Affordable Care Act, Advisory Board, 2014 – 2019.
National Academy of Social Insurance, Retirement Security for Today’s Working Americans conference co-chair, January 2014.
Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law Affordable Care Act Implementation Network advisory committee 2013 – 16.
Robert Wood Johnson Scholars in Health Policy, National Advisory Committee, 2011-2016.
NORC 2012 Presidential Election Study Co-PI with John Mark Hansen, Ben Page, and Steve Ansolabehere.
APSA Presidential Task Force, “Getting to ‘Yes’ in Politics,” US Working Group, 2012-13.
National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Public Administration, “The Fiscal Future of the United States: Analysis and Policy Options,” Committee Member, 2008-2010. Funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
Scholars Strategy Network, Co-Director of the Boston Regional Network, 2012 – 14.
Invited Lectures
Yale University, November 2020 Johns Hopkins, Center for Advanced Governmental Studies, November 2019 University of Missouri, October 2018 UC Santa Barbara, February 2018 Princeton University, April 2017 Duke University, Sanford School of Public Policy, December 2016 University of Montana, President’s Lecture, November 2016 Harvard Kennedy School, April 2016 UC Berkeley, January 2016 University of Wisconsin, May 2015 Columbia University Seminars, April 2015 University of Notre Dame, March 2015 Tufts Medical Center Grand Rounds, January 2015 Texas A&M, December 2014 University of Iowa, November 2014 Yale University, September 2014 Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health, June 2014 University of Michigan, April 2014 University of Chicago, Center for Health Administration Studies, October 2013 Campbell, p. 10
Washington University St. Louis, March 2013 University of Virginia, November 2012 American Bar Association, September 2012 Nuffield College, Oxford, May 2012 Kennedy School of Government, November 2011 University of Texas, Austin, March 2011 State University of New York at Albany, February 2011 Harvard University, Center for American Political Studies, April 2010 UC Berkeley, Robert Wood Johnson Scholars Seminar, April 2010 University of Minnesota, March 2010 St. Anselm College, New Hampshire Institute of Politics, March 2010 Columbia University, December 2009 Brown University, December 2009 Harvard University, Robert Wood Johnson Scholars Seminar, Oct 2009 Yale University, Center for the Study of American Politics, January 2009 Yale University, School of Public Health, April 2008 University of Virginia, April 2008 New York University, March 2008 Yale University, Department of Political Science, January 2008 University of South Florida, January 2008 Notre Dame University, March 2007 Harvard University, Political Psychology and Behavior Workshop, Feb 2007 Yale University, December 2006 Harvard University, Robert Wood Johnson Scholars Seminar, December 2006 University of Massachusetts, Boston, March 2006 Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, September 2005 Stanford University, January 2005 University of Wisconsin, November 2004 Columbia University, October 2004 University of Michigan, October 2004 College of William and Mary, September 2004 Princeton University, October 2003 Yale University, April 2003 Kennedy School of Government, March 2003
Other Presentations and Conference Papers (last 10 years)
“Race and Taxes,” keynote address, Toronto Political Development Workshop, University of Toronto, September 28, 2018.
“Politics of U.S. Taxation,” University of Oxford PPE Society, May 21, 2018.
“Depends on What State You’re In: Policies and Politics of the U.S. Healthcare System,” Radcliffe Institute forum, September 15, 2017.
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“Trapped in America’s Safety Net,” New England Region Child Support Director’s Annual Meeting, Falmouth, MA, September 14-15, 2017.
Roundtable speaker, “The Politics of ACA Repeal and Replace,” American Political Science Association annual meeting, San Francisco, August 31-September 3, 2017.
Roundtable speaker, “The Trump Presidency and the Future of the American Regime,” American Political Science Association annual meeting, San Francisco, August 31-September 3, 2017.
Roundtable speaker, “Policy Feedbacks,” American Political Science Association annual meeting, San Francisco, August 31-September 3, 2017.
“Americans’ Conflicted Attitudes about Taxing the Wealthy,” paper presented at the American Political Science Association annual meeting, San Francisco, August 31-September 3, 2017.
“Exploring Policy Feedbacks,” U.S. General Accountability Office, Boston, June 13, 2017.
“Civic Feedbacks” with Hahrie Han, presented at “Democratic Equality: A Broken Promise?” Conference, SSRC and DFG, Milan, March 12-14, 2017.
“Mobilization, Participation, Policy Feedbacks, and Distribution,” for the meeting of the Politics of Distribution group, SSRC Anxieties of Democracy initiative, February 10.
Post-Election Forum with James Carville, Tulane University, January 17, 2017.
“Exploring Policy Feedbacks,” Ford Foundation, New York City, January 12, 2017.
Speaker for Class III (Social Sciences) at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences induction ceremony, Cambridge, October 8, 2016.
Featured author, National Center for Children in Poverty, Columbia Mailman School of Public Health Online Book Club. Trapped in America’s Safety Net the July 2016 selection. Webcast July 20, 2016.
“Understanding U.S. Health Insurance and the Obama Reform,” Centro de Estudios Públicos, Santiago, Chile, April 20, 2015.
“La reforma del Sistema de pensiones en los EEUU, visions politicas y aspectos económicos,” CEPAL (United Nations Economic Commission for Latin American and the Caribbean), Santiago, Chile, April 21, 2015.
“Understanding Pensions in the United States,” presentation with the Subsecretaría de Previsión Social, Ministerio del Trabajo y Previsión Social, Santiago, Chile, April 23, 2015.
“Trapped in America’s Safety Net: Choosing to Make People Poor,” New America Foundation forum, Washington, DC, November 19, 2014. Campbell, p. 12
Speaker, roundtable on Paul Pierson’s Dismantling the Welfare State, American Political Science Association annual meeting, Washington, DC, August 28-31, 2014.
“How Americans Think about Taxing the Rich,” paper presented at the American Sociological Association annual conference, San Francisco, August 16-19, 2014.
“Tax Attitudes in the Obama Era.” Presented at the NYU/UCLA Tax Policy Symposium, UCLA, October 18, 2013.
“The Health Care Case in the Public Mind” with Nathaniel Persily. Presented at the conference on the Supreme Court’s Affordable Care Act ruling, Columbia Law School, Center for Law and Politics, September 28, 2012.
“Impact of the Presidential Election on Tax and Health Policy,” MIT Alumni Association, Faculty Forum Online, October 3, 2012.
Roundtable on Disciplining the Poor, Midwest Political Science Association meeting, April 2012.
“Popular Consent and Tax Policy in the United States and Japan.” Presented at the “Two Political Economies in Crisis: Historical and Comparative Perspectives on the Fiscal Dilemmas Facing Japan and the United States” conference, Keio University, Tokyo, December 2011.
Keynote address, Fiscal Sociology Workshop, Social Science History Association meeting, Boston, November 2011.
Roundtable on James Sparrow’s Warfare State: World War II Americans and the Age of Big Government, Social Science History Association meeting, November 2011.
“After Health Care Reform, the Tea Party, and the Midterms: What Do Seniors Really Want?” Presented at the Gerontological Society of America annual meeting, November 2011.
Plenary Session speaker, “The Fate of the Affordable Care Act and the Right to Health Insurance Coverage.” American Political Science Association meeting, September 2011.
Roundtable speaker, “Political Behavior and Historical Institutionalism.” American Political Science Association meeting, September 2011.
“Paying America’s Way: The Fraught Politics of Taxes, Investments, and Budgetary Responsibility.” American Political Science Association meeting, September 2011.
“Obama’s Agenda and the Dynamics of U.S. Politics: Tax and Revenue Policy.” Presented at the American Political Science Association meeting, September 2010.
“Medicare Reform and Mechanisms of Institutional Change and Reproduction.” Presented at the Working Group on Institutional Change meeting, Cologne, Germany, March 2010. Campbell, p. 13
“Myths and Puzzles in Americans’ Tax Attitudes.” Lecture at New Hampshire Institute of Politics, St. Anselm College, March 2010.
“What the Social Security Experience Tells Us About Taxes Americans Can Embrace,” presented at the inaugural public session of the Scholars Strategy Network, “Funding America’s Priorities: The Possibilities and Politics of Public Revenues,” with E.J. Dionne, Robert Kuttner, Jacob Hacker, and Larry Jacobs, Washington, DC., February 2010.
Professional Service
American Political Science Association:
Elections, Public Opinion & Voting Behavior: Philip E. Converse Book Award Committee, 2017 Emerging Scholar Selection Committee, 2012 Centennial Center Advisory Board, chair, 2013-16 Presidential Task Force, 2012-13 Public Policy: President, 2012-13 President-Elect and Panel Organizer, 2011-12 Annual Meeting Program Co-Chair, 2010 Health Politics and Policy: Treasurer, 2008-11 Aging Politics and Policy: Panel Organizer, 2009 Politics and History: Nominations Committee, 2010 Mary Parker Follett Best Article Selection Committee, 2009 Council, 2006-08 Political Organizations and Parties: Emerging Scholar Selection Committee, 2007
Journal of Aging and Social Policy, editorial board
Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law, editorial board; and Associate Editor for Political Science, 2010-16.
American Political Science Review, editorial board, 2016-2020
Journal of Politics, editorial board, 2005-09
Series Board Member, Oxford Studies in Postwar American Political Development, Oxford University Press, 2011 – on.
Editorial Advisory Board, Political Development: Comparative Perspectives series, University of Toronto Press, 2019 – on.
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Referee, Ageing and Society; American Journal of Political Science; American Political Science Review; American Politics Research; American Sociological Review; British Journal of Political Science; Comparative Political Studies; Cultural Anthropology; Governance; Health Affairs; Journal of Aging & Social Policy; Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law; Journal of Political Economy; Journal of Politics; Journal of Policy History; Law and Society Review; Legislative Studies Quarterly; National Tax Journal; New England Journal of Medicine; Perspectives on Politics; Political Behavior; Political Research Quarterly; Political Science Quarterly; Politics and Life Sciences; Policy Studies; Polity; Politics & Policy; Public Administration Review; Public Opinion Quarterly; Sage Open; Social Politics; Social Problems, Social Science Quarterly; Socio-Economic Review; State Politics and Policy; Studies in American Political Development; University of Chicago Press; ECPR (European Consortium for Political Research) Press; Cambridge University Press; Duke University Press; Oxford University Press; Princeton University Press; Stanford University Press; SUNY Press; Yale University Press; University of Pennsylvania Press; W.W. Norton; Spencer Foundation; Russell Sage Foundation; National Science Foundation; National Academy of Science; National Academy of Social Insurance; Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada; Radcliffe Institute; and Time-Sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences (TESS).
Mentor, University of Virginia Miller Center, 2013-14 Mentor, Graduate Women at MIT (GWAMIT), 2010-11 Mentor, Gender Equity Project, City University of New York, 2009 Mentor, Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Scholars Program, Harvard University, 2009-10 2011-12.
American, British, and Canadian Political Development workshops, Core Participant, University of Toronto and Oxford University, 2015 – 16, co-organizer 2019.
Citizens in Changing Welfare States: Pressures, Frames, and Feedback workshop, organizing committee, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, November 2015.
Discussant: 2010 meeting of the Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2015 meetings of the Midwest Political Science Association 2008 meeting of the Social Science History Association 2005, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2020 meetings of the American Political Science Association 2006 meeting of the Western Political Science Association
Book conference discussant for Clayton Nall (Stanford); Carolyn Barnes (Duke); Amber Wichowsky and Meghan Condon (Yale); Leah Stokes (UC Santa Barbara); Devin Caughey and Chris Warshaw (MIT)
Panel organizer: 2002, 2003 meetings of the Midwest Political Science Association 2000 meeting of the American Political Science Association
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Fields of Interest
American Politics Public opinion, political participation, policy feedbacks, inequality, historical political behavior
Public Policy Social policy, health policy, tax policy
Teaching
Undergraduate: Making Public Policy U.S. Social Policy Health Policy Introduction to American Government Campaigns and Elections Political Participation and Public Policy in the U.S. Constitutional Democracy in America Independent Study: The Electoral College Independent Study: Ideology, Beliefs, and Values
Graduate: American Field Seminar I: Political Behavior Advanced Topics in Political Behavior Social Policy American Political Development American Politics Research Workshop Harvard Health Policy Ph.D. program core seminar Lecturer (2003- present) and Politics Section Leader, 2004
MIT Service
Institute Editorial Board, Case Studies in Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing, 2020- Faculty Complaint Review Panel, 2020- Campus Sustainability Task Force, Co-Chair 2015-19 Committee on Nominations, 2013-16; Chair 2014-16 Faculty Policy Committee, 2010-12 Committee on the Undergraduate Program, Subcommittee on the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Requirement (SHR), 2009-2012, and Chair, 2011-2012 Edgerton Faculty Achievement Award Selection Committee, 2010; Chair 2011 Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences Overview Committee, Spring 2006; 2007-2009 D’Arbeloff Fund for Excellence in Education Selection Committee, 2007-2009 Baker Foundation Faculty Advisor, 2007-2008
Political Science Department Department Head, 2015-19 Campbell, p. 16
Placement Director, 2014-15 Equal Opportunity Officer, 2014-15 Graduate Program Committee, 2013-14; chair (DGS) 2014-15 Methods Search Committee, chair, Fall 2013 American Politics Search Committee, Fall 2011 American Politics Search Committee, chair, Fall 2010 Undergraduate Program Committee, 2005-06; 2007-09; Chair, 2008-12 Political Science Minor Advisor, 2005-06; 2007-09 Political Science Concentration Advisor, 2010-12 Public Policy Minor Advisor, 2005-06; 2007-12 Graduate Admissions Committee, Spring 2006 American Junior Faculty Search Committee, Fall 2005
Dissertation committees (with current placements)
MIT Political Science Department Mike Sances (chair), Temple University Justin DeBenedictus-Kessner, Kennedy School of Government Krista Loose, Government Accountability Office Weihuang Wei, NORC Parish Bergquist (chair), Georgetown University Nicolas Dumas Loreto Cox, Pontificia Universidad Católica, Chile Ben Armstrong, Brown University postdoc Clara Vandeweerdt (chair), University of Copenhagen lecturer
MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning Leah Stokes, UC Santa Barbara
Harvard Government Department Dan Hopkins, University of Pennsylvania David E. Campbell, Notre Dame Tess Wise, Amherst College
Harvard PhD Program in Government and Social Policy Daniel Schlozman, Johns Hopkins Vanessa Williamson, Brookings Institution
Harvard Health Policy PhD Program Debra Joy Perez Patricia Keenan Colleen Barry Tara Sussman Oakman Joachim (Joe) Hero Ali Hamandi Ricky Gonzales Campbell, p. 17
Emma Sandoe
Brandeis University Ryan LaRochelle, University of Maine
Rutgers Gregory Lyon
University of Colorado J.B. Brower