Publications

2026 Breaking Power to Build Democracy Jamila Michener · Empowering Democracy Initiative White Paper — 2026 Child Tax Credits and (In)Equitable State Policy Design Jamila Michener · Policy Studies Journal 0 2026 Historic Medicaid Cuts are a Body Blow to Vulnerable Americans Jamila Michener · Post-Standard — 2026 Mapping the Landscape of State Medicaid Policy Jamila Michener · Health Affairs Scholar — 2026 Preemption and Democracy: Lessons from Minnesota Jamila Michener · Local Solutions Support Center — 2026 Tenant Organizing as a Pathway to Decoupling Wealth and Power Jamila Michener · Housing Policy Debate 1 2026 Uncivil Democracy: How Access to Justice Shapes Political Power Jamila Michener · Princeton University Press 6 2025 Beyond Access: Power, Organizing, and Civil Legal Inequality Jamila Michener · Rethinking Lawyer’s Monopoly: Access to Justice and the Future of Legal Services 0 2025 Beyond Fear of Backlash: Effects of Messages about Structural Drivers of COVID-19 Disparities among Large Samples of Asian, Black, Hispanic, and White Americans Jamila Michener · Social Science & Medicine 9 2025 Centering Historically Minoritized Populations to Design Effective Messages about Evidence-Based Policies to Advance Social Equity Jamila Michener · PNAS Nexus 8 2025 Constituent Voice: A Key Tool for More Effective Administration of Government Programs Jamila Michener · Institute for Responsive Government — 2025 Disrupting the U.S. Eviction System: A Descriptive Analysis of Tenant Right to Counsel Law and Praxis 2017-2024 Jamila Michener · Housing Policy Debate 12 2025 Dominant Narratives in Health Jamila Michener · Collaborative on Media and Messaging for Health and Social Policy — 2025 Housing Insecurity and U.S. Economic Policies: Lessons from Tenant Organizing Jamila Michener · Washington Center for Equitable Growth — 2025 Medicaid Cuts are Undemocratic and Not What the American People Want Jamila Michener · Milbank Quarterly Opinion 0 2025 State Child Tax Credits Are a Crucial Lever for Equity Jamila Michener · Milbank Quarterly Opinion 0 2025 The Future of Medicaid and the Imperative of Organized Power Jamila Michener · Health Affairs Forefront — 2025 Why Building Power is Key to Protecting Academic Public Health and Advancing Health Equity Jamila Michener · American Journal of Public Health 8 2024 Building Power for Health: The Grassroots Politics of Sustaining and Strengthening Medicaid Jamila Michener · Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 7 2024 Ethical and Transformative Scholarly Public Engagement: Pitfalls, Possibilities, and Promise Jamila Michener · Healthcare Policy | Politiques de Santé 2 2024 Politics in the American States: A Comparative Analysis Jamila Michener · Congressional Quarterly Press (Sage) 4 2024 Power, Racism, and Health Equity Jamila Michener · Health Politics and Policy — 2024 Racial, Economic, and Gender Inequity in the States Jamila Michener · Politics in the American States: A Comparative Analysis — 2024 Syracuse Tenants Need Good Cause Eviction Law Jamila Michener · The Post-Standard — 2024 The Politics of Personal Crisis: How Life Disruptions Shape Political Participation Jamila Michener · Political Behavior 19 2023 Administrative Burden as a Mechanism of Inequality in Policy Implementation Jamila Michener · RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences — 2023 Causes and Effects of Poverty in New York’s Medium-and-Small-Sized Cities Jamila Michener · Senate Standing Committee on Cities 2. New York State Senate, written/oral testimony — 2023 Entrenching Inequity, Eroding Democracy: State Preemption of Local Housing Policies Jamila Michener · Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 31 2023 Introduction: Administrative Burden as a Mechanism of Inequality in Policy Implementation Jamila Michener · RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 255 2023 ‘It’s Like Night and Day:’ How Bureaucratic Encounters Vary Across WIC, SNAP, and Medicaid Jamila Michener · Social Service Review 86 2023 Legal Aid and Social Policy: Managing a Political Economy of Scarcity Jamila Michener · The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 13 2023 Policy Feedback in the Pandemic: Lessons from Three Key Policies Jamila Michener · Roosevelt Institute 7 2023 Racial Capitalism, Tenant Power, and Social Housing Jamila Michener · Poverty & Race — 2023 Racism and Health: Three Core Principles Jamila Michener · The Milbank Quarterly 35 2023 Racism, Power, and Health Equity: The Case of Tenant Organizing Jamila Michener · Health Affairs · needs review 30 2022 American Federalism, Political Inequality, and Democratic Erosion Jamila Michener · The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 52 2022 A Racial Equity Framework for Assessing Health Policy Jamila Michener · Issue Brief. The Commonwealth Fund 33 2022 Civil Justice, Local Organizations, and Democracy Jamila Michener · Columbia Law Review 24 2022 Democratic vulnerabilities and pathways for reform Jamila Michener · The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science · Scholar only 19 2022 Engaging Voice to Support Racially Equitable Policymaking Jamila Michener · To the Point. Commonwealth Fund 7 2022 Examining Pathways to Universal Health Coverage Jamila Michener · Oversight and Reform Committee Hearing. United States House of Representatives, written/oral testimony · needs review — 2022 From the Margins to the Center: A Bottom-Up Approach to Welfare State Scholarship Jamila Michener · Perspectives on Politics 120 2022 Fulfilling the Promise of Voting Rights and Full Citizenship Jamila Michener · An Economy for All: Building a “Black Women Best” Legislative Agenda — 2022 Health Justice through the Lens of Power Jamila Michener · Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 47 2022 How the States Went Wrong Jamila Michener · Democracy: A Journal of Ideas — 2022 Improving Healthcare and Reducing Maternal Mortality Jamila Michener · An Economy for All: Building a “Black Women Best” Legislative Agenda — 2022 Information from Same-Race/Ethnicity Experts Online Does Not Increase Vaccine Interest or Intention to Vaccinate Jamila Michener · The Milbank Quarterly 15 2022 Medicaid Reimbursement Rates Are a Racial Justice Issue Jamila Michener · To the Point (blog). Commonwealth Fund 6 2022 Methods for Applying Policy Feedback Theory Jamila Michener · Methods of the Policy Process 35 2022 Pathways to Universal Health Coverage and Health Equity Jamila Michener · Scholar only · needs review —