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Pork Barrel Politics - How Government Spending Determines Elections in a Polarized Era (Paperback)
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Pork Barrel Politics - How Government Spending Determines Elections in a Polarized Era (Paperback)
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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. In
Pork Barrel Politics, Andrew H. Sidman offers a systematic
explanation for how political polarization affects the electoral
influence of district-level federal spending. He argues that the
average voter sees the pork barrel as an aspect of the larger issue
of government spending, determined by partisanship and ideology. It
is only when the political world becomes more divided over
everything else that the average voter pays attention to pork,
linking it to their general preferences over government spending.
Using data on pork barrel spending from 1986 through 2012 and
public works spending since 1876 along with analyses of
district-level outcomes and incumbent success, Sidman demonstrates
the rising power of polarization in United States elections. During
periods of low polarization, pork barrel spending has little
impact, but when polarization is high, it affects primary
competition, campaign spending, and vote share in general
elections. 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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