The Politics of Pork: A Study of Congressional Appropriations Earmarks

ISBN-13: 9780815332589 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 228 str.

Scott A. Frisch

Opis

This study develops a new way of studying pork barrel politics based on congressional behaviour in the 1980s and 1990s.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Legislative Earmarks and Other Evidence; Chapter 3 Descriptions of Earmark Programs; Chapter 4 Distributive Theory and Committee Membership; Chapter 5 Earmarks and the Benefit Hypothesis; Chapter 6 Universalism and Reciprocity; Chapter 7 Distributive Theory and the Electoral Connection; Chapter 8 Distributive Politics and Deficits; Chapter 9 Conclusion; References Index;

O autorze

Scott A. Frisch