Implementing ObamaCare: The Politics of Medicaid Expansion under the Affordable Care Act of 2010

Sociological Perspectives

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 619-639

  Lanford, Daniel ^a   Quadagno, Jill ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

interest groups; Medicaid; Obamacare; partisan politics; policy attitudes; policy legacy; public opinion; racial resentment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84979696734     PISSN: 07311214     EISSN: 15338673     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0731121415587605     Document Type: Article

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