Speaking from Experience: Medicaid Beneficiaries as Policy Storytellers

• In Event: Uncovering Policy Stories: Narrative Dynamics & the Narrative Policy Framework

Brief Overview

Medicaid beneficiaries participating in Kentucky’s policy debate seek to establish narrator trust and provide convincing evidence. Implications for NPF theory involving individuals as producers of policy narratives are discussed.

Authors

• Kathleen Colville, North Carolina State University

• Melissa K. Merry, University of Louisville