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Because of federalism, Medicaid takes very different forms in different places. This has dramatic and crucial consequences for democratic citizenship.
List of contents
1. Medicaid, political life and fragmented democracy; 2. Federalism, citizenship and contextualized policy feedback; 3. Federalism, healthcare and inequity: past and present; 4. The mis(education) of Medicaid beneficiaries in the American states; 5. Pushing back: particularistic resistance in county contexts; 6. Going local: people, places and social policy in the city; 7. Nothing about us, without us: policy advocacy in a fragmented polity; 8. Federalism, policy and political inequality; References; Appendix A: qualitative interviews; Appendix B: statistical tables; Index.
About the author
Jamila Michener is Assistant Professor of Government at Cornell University, New York. She is a leading expert in the study of poverty, racial inequality, politics and public policy in the United States. Her work has been supported by the Russell Sage Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Ford Foundation. She is a faculty affiliate at the Center for the Study of Inequality, a graduate field faculty member in the Africana Studies Department, a faculty affiliate in the American Studies Program, and an affiliate at the Cornell Population Center. As a publicly engaged scholar, Michener is also co-leader of the Finger Lakes Branch of the Scholars Strategy Network, sits on the advisory board of the Cornell Prison Education Program, and teaches regularly in local prisons. Prior to coming to Cornell, she received her Ph.D. in political science from the University of Chicago and completed a postdoctoral fellowship as a Health Policy Scholar at the University of Michigan.
Summary
This book is about how Medicaid intersects with federalism and how it affects the lives of the people who use it and shapes their democratic citizenship. The primary audience is academics and informed members of the public interested in American politics, public policy, healthcare, inequality, contextual effects, and democracy.
