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We provide evidence regarding potential policy feedback effects of healthcare reform by estimating the effect of Medicaid expansion on public support for the state actor most closely associated with responsibility for the expansion decision—the governor. The discretion granted to state governments concerning Medicaid expansion has created the potential for significant variation in mass feedback effects across the states. We are particularly interested in how these effects are influenced by the emerging racial polarization over healthcare policy, and how this may lead to different types of feedback effects that align with partisan, ideological, and racial cleavages. We estimate the impact of Medicaid expansion on gubernatorial approval, utilizing five waves of the Cooperative Congressional Election Study (2008–16). We find that on average, expansion led to a modest, yet statistically significant increase in gubernatorial approval. However, there is important variation both within and across states in the effect of expansion. Specifically, we find that governors were more likely to be rewarded for expansion by those who supported President Obama, and those who resided in states where the Medicaid recipient population is more likely to be white.

Explores the relationship between external funding & publication of political science research. The distribution of published articles in eight leading journals is examined & content identified by research subfields & methodological approaches. The source of funding, National Science Foundation (NSF) grants or other sources, was also identified. The results are analyzed for implications about biases of funding agencies & journals across epistemological approaches & research subfields. The major finding was that external funding does not support most of the published research in the major journals. 13 Tables, 2 Appendixes, 5 References. L. Collins