Presidential pork : White House influence over the distribution of federal grants /

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Presidential earmarks? Perhaps even more so than their counterparts in Congress, presidents have the motive and the means to politicize spending for political power. But do they? In Presidential Pork, John Hudak explains and interprets presidential efforts to control federal spending and accumulate...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hudak, John (John Joseph)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [2014]
Temas:
Grants-in-aid > United States.
Executive power > United States.
Government spending policy > United States.
Presidents > United States > Decision making.
Subventions de l'État aux collectivités locales > États-Unis.
Pouvoir exécutif > États-Unis.
Présidents > États-Unis > Prise de décision.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Public Finance.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > American Government > General.
Executive power
Expenditures, Public
Government spending policy
Grants-in-aid
Presidents > Decision making
United States > Appropriations and expenditures.
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Spending power and the election-driven president
  • Pork barrel politics at the presidential level
  • Aiding and abetting the president : the role of federal agencies
  • Presidential motives in the shadow of crisis
  • A web of bureaucratic control
  • The mechanisms of presidential spending power
  • Conclusions and implications.

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