Pork Barrel Politics : How Government Spending Determines Elections in a Polarized Era /

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Conventional wisdom holds that legislators who bring "pork"-federal funds for local projects-back home to their districts go a long way toward fending off potential challengers. For more than four decades, however, the empirical support for this belief has been mixed. Some studies have fou...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sidman, Andrew H. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2019]
Temas:
Government spending policy > United States.
Government spending policy-United States.
Polarization (Social sciences) > Political aspects > United States.
Polarization (Social sciences)-Political aspects-United States.
United States.-Congress-Appropriations and expenditures.
United States.-Congress-Elections.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / National.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Incumbents and Pork Barrel Politics
  • 2. Pursuing the Pork Barrel
  • 3. An Electoral History of the Pork Barrel
  • 4. Attitudes, Voting, and the Pork Barrel
  • 5. Challenges from Within the Party
  • 6. General-Election Challengers and Campaigns
  • 7. Election Outcomes
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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