Add to ORKGEvery year, federal agencies award around $1 trillion in grants and contracts. How do these awards influence public support for government agencies? In new research that examines how citizens evaluate the performance of seven federal agencies, Susan M. Miller finds that when an agency spends more money in a state, citizens’ evaluations of that agency improve. When citizens and an agency are ideologically aligned, the probability that citizens approve of an agency’s performance can increase by as much as 29 percentage points
While politicians in Washington, who have already authorized trillions of funds for businesses in th...
Only 8 percent of Americans believe that information about what policies and programs work primarily...
The shift from categorical grants to general revenue sharing and block grants as the form of intergo...
When implementing policy, Congress can choose to allocate grants to state governments as grant aid, ...
International audienceThe impacts of money in US politics have long been debated. Building on princi...
Subnational government entities benefit from federal funds to support programs and operations. There...
This article contends that federal agencies ought more frequently to use the threat of cutting off f...
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from SAGE Publications via th...
In recent years, members of Congress have inserted thousands of pork-barrel spending projects into b...
The U.S. federal government spend s huge sums buying goods and services from outside of the pu...
We examine the flow of federal grants-in-aid from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to ...
Research on the distribution of federal expenditures has provided mixed evidence showing that states...
What explains citizens’ perceptions of government policy success? To answer this question, we use mu...
Recent empirical literature has shown that the determination of intergovernmental grants is highly i...
While trust in the federal government may be at an all-time low, citizens still trust state and loca...
While politicians in Washington, who have already authorized trillions of funds for businesses in th...
Only 8 percent of Americans believe that information about what policies and programs work primarily...
The shift from categorical grants to general revenue sharing and block grants as the form of intergo...
When implementing policy, Congress can choose to allocate grants to state governments as grant aid, ...
International audienceThe impacts of money in US politics have long been debated. Building on princi...
Subnational government entities benefit from federal funds to support programs and operations. There...
This article contends that federal agencies ought more frequently to use the threat of cutting off f...
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from SAGE Publications via th...
In recent years, members of Congress have inserted thousands of pork-barrel spending projects into b...
The U.S. federal government spend s huge sums buying goods and services from outside of the pu...
We examine the flow of federal grants-in-aid from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to ...
Research on the distribution of federal expenditures has provided mixed evidence showing that states...
What explains citizens’ perceptions of government policy success? To answer this question, we use mu...
Recent empirical literature has shown that the determination of intergovernmental grants is highly i...
While trust in the federal government may be at an all-time low, citizens still trust state and loca...
While politicians in Washington, who have already authorized trillions of funds for businesses in th...
Only 8 percent of Americans believe that information about what policies and programs work primarily...
The shift from categorical grants to general revenue sharing and block grants as the form of intergo...