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

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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Sidman, Andrew [verfasserIn]

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E-Book

Sprache:

Englisch

Erschienen:

New York, NY: Columbia University Press ; 2019

Rechteinformationen:

Restricted Access

Schlagwörter:

Government spending policy, United States

Polarization (Social sciences), Political aspects, United States

Government spending policy-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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Umfang:

1 Online-Ressource ; 31 figures

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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

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[Online-Ausgabe]

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ISBN:

978-0-231-55040-6

DOI / URN:

10.7312/sidm19358

Katalog-ID:

1678408166

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