Do Government Programs Get People More Involved In Politics?
It’s long been thought that giving people resources through government programs will get them more involved in politics. But this has always been a difficult question to answer in a controlled environment. That is until the 2008 Medicaid expansion in Oregon. There was a research initiative done on that expansion, and our boss the Dean of the Harris School of Public Policy, Katherine Baicker, was involved. We parse through the results with her to see if we can get a new perspective on this question.