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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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2019] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Incumbents and Pork Barrel Politics
- 2. Pursuing the Pork Barrel
- 3. An Electoral History of the Pork Barrel
- 4. Attitudes, Voting, and the Pork Barrel
- 5. Challenges from Within the Party
- 6. General-Election Challengers and Campaigns
- 7. Election Outcomes
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Index