Incumbents and pork barrel politics -- Pursuing the pork barrel -- An electoral history of the pork barrel -- Attitudes, voting, and the pork barrel -- Challenges from within the party -- General-election challengers and campaigns -- Election outcomes
Summary
Andrew Sidman offers a systematic explanation for how political polarization affects the electoral influence of district-level federal spending. Pork Barrel Politics is an empirically rich account of the surprising repercussions of bringing pork home, with important consequences in our polarized era
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Online resource; title from digital title page (EBSCOhost, viewed March 2, 2021)
