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Greasing the wheels : using pork barrel projects to build majority coalitions in Congress /
Pork barrel projects would surely rank near the top of most observers' lists of Congress's most widely despised products. Yet, political leaders in Congress and the President often trade pork for votes to pass legislation that serves broad national purposes, giving members of Congress pork...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York, N.Y. :
Cambridge University Press,
2004.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Pork barrel projects would surely rank near the top of most observers' lists of Congress's most widely despised products. Yet, political leaders in Congress and the President often trade pork for votes to pass legislation that serves broad national purposes, giving members of Congress pork barrel projects in return for their votes on general interest legislation. It is a practice that succeeds at a cost, but it is a cost that many political leaders are willing to pay in order to enact the broader public policies that they favor. There is an irony in this: pork barrel benefits, the most reviled of Congress's legislative products, are used by policy coalition leaders to produce the type of policy that is most admired - general interest legislation. This book makes the case that buying votes with pork is one way in which Congress solves its well-known collective action problem. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 267 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-258) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511211911 0511211910 9780521836814 0521836816 9780521545327 0521545323 0511215495 9780511215490 0511217285 9780511217289 9780511617140 0511617143 1280540559 9781280540554 9786610540556 6610540551 0511315872 9780511315879 0511213689 9780511213687 |