Pork Barrel Politics : : How Government Spending Determines Elections in a Polarized Era / / Andrew H. Sidman.
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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