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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hudak, John (John Joseph) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [2014]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Presidents > Decision making.
Grants-in-aid.
Government spending policy.
Expenditures, Public.
Executive power.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > American Government > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Public Finance.
Presidents > États-Unis > Prise de decision.
Pouvoir executif > États-Unis.
Subventions de l'État aux collectivites locales > États-Unis.
Presidents > United States > Decision making.
Government spending policy > United States.
Executive power > United States.
Grants-in-aid > United States.
United States.
United States > Appropriations and expenditures.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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