Add to ORKGCongressional scholars have frequently reported dramatic shifts int he mood of Congress toward federal spending. In seeking to explain these fluctuations in congressional moods, we develop and estimate an "electoral connection" model of the congressional appropriations process. In this model appropriations decisions are seen to be the product of the responses of reelection-seeking members of Congress to the key political and economic variables in their environment
This paper provides new evidence on the determinants of the US federal budget allocation to the stat...
Observers of Congress often cite the budget process as evidence of the institution’s contemporary dy...
In recent years, considerable scholarly attention has focused on earmarks, the quintessential exampl...
Congressional scholars have frequently reported dramatic shifts int he mood of Congress toward feder...
The analyses undertaken in this study generate evidence supportive of the hypothesis that Congress t...
While there is significant study concerning the source of money in Congressional campaigns, comparat...
Richard Fenno, in Power of the Purse, contends that the budget process responds to interest group pr...
Theories of party power in Congress differ on the circumstances under which majority parties have th...
This paper takes a game-theoretic approach to the analysis of the spending-votes relationship in Con...
An extensive literature examines how distributive (i.e., “pork barrel”) spending is allocated among ...
This paper analyzes whether the Congressional budget process (instituted in 1974) leads to lower agg...
The literature on the organization of the United States Congress has been dominated by "distributive...
This dissertation examines a number of issues that arise in U.S. Congressional elections. In the fir...
The use of money in congressional elections will be the principal issue of this thesis. The money de...
Congress has endured a notable decline in approval over the last two decades, with their approval ra...
This paper provides new evidence on the determinants of the US federal budget allocation to the stat...
Observers of Congress often cite the budget process as evidence of the institution’s contemporary dy...
In recent years, considerable scholarly attention has focused on earmarks, the quintessential exampl...
Congressional scholars have frequently reported dramatic shifts int he mood of Congress toward feder...
The analyses undertaken in this study generate evidence supportive of the hypothesis that Congress t...
While there is significant study concerning the source of money in Congressional campaigns, comparat...
Richard Fenno, in Power of the Purse, contends that the budget process responds to interest group pr...
Theories of party power in Congress differ on the circumstances under which majority parties have th...
This paper takes a game-theoretic approach to the analysis of the spending-votes relationship in Con...
An extensive literature examines how distributive (i.e., “pork barrel”) spending is allocated among ...
This paper analyzes whether the Congressional budget process (instituted in 1974) leads to lower agg...
The literature on the organization of the United States Congress has been dominated by "distributive...
This dissertation examines a number of issues that arise in U.S. Congressional elections. In the fir...
The use of money in congressional elections will be the principal issue of this thesis. The money de...
Congress has endured a notable decline in approval over the last two decades, with their approval ra...
This paper provides new evidence on the determinants of the US federal budget allocation to the stat...
Observers of Congress often cite the budget process as evidence of the institution’s contemporary dy...
In recent years, considerable scholarly attention has focused on earmarks, the quintessential exampl...