Andrea L. Campbell is associate professor of political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She studies American politics, political behavior, public opinion, political inequality, and social policy, particularly the interplay between political institutions and the political behavior and attitudes of mass publics. She is currently working on a study of taxes, public opinion, and the American fiscal state and on an examination of the politics of the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003. Her work has been published in the American Political Science Review, Health Affairs, Political Behavior, Studies in American Political Development, and Comparative Political Studies. She was a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy at Yale University. She has a B.A. from Harvard University and a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley.