Party polarization, political alignment, and federal grant spending at the state level
Autor: | Gary A. Hoover, Paul Pecorino, William B. Hankins |
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Rok vydání: | 2017 |
Předmět: |
Presidential system
media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences 0506 political science Politics State (polity) Political economy Federal funds Political science 0502 economics and business 050602 political science & public administration International political economy Per capita Political philosophy 050207 economics Business and International Management General Economics Econometrics and Finance media_common Public finance |
Zdroj: | Economics of Governance. 18:351-389 |
ISSN: | 1435-8131 1435-6104 |
DOI: | 10.1007/s10101-017-0196-6 |
Popis: | Research on the distribution of federal expenditures has provided mixed evidence showing that states with more legislators who belong to the president’s party and states with more legislators in the chamber majority tend to receive a larger allocation of federal funds. We add to this research by considering how political polarization and political alignment impact these presidential and congressional determinants of how the domestic US budget is distributed to the states. Our results show that states with a larger percentage of senators in the majority can secure a larger share of federal grant expenditures per capita when political polarization is relatively low. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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