Professor Andrew H. Sidman, "Pork Barrel Politics: How Government Spending Determines Elections in a Polarized Era"
English | ISBN: 0231193580 | 2019 | 216 pages | EPUB | 905 KB
Conventional wisdom holds that legislators who bring "pork"―federal funds for local projects―back home to their districts are better able to fend off potential challengers. For more than four decades, however, the empirical support for this belief has been mixed. Some studies have found that securing federal spending has no electoral effects at best or can even cost incumbent legislators votes.