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The President and the Distribution of Federal Spending
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Scholarship on distributive politics focuses almost exclusively on the internal operations of Congress, paying particular attention to committees and majority parties. This article highlights the president, who has extensive opportunities, both ex ante and ex post, to influence the distribution of federal outlays. We analyze two databases that track the geographic spending of nearly every domestic program over a 24-year period—the largest and most comprehensive panels of federal spending patterns ever assembled. Using district and county fixed-effects estimation strategies, we find no evidence of committee influence and mixed evidence that majority party members receive larger shares of federal outlays. We find that districts and counties receive systematically more federal outlays when legislators in the president's party represent them.
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- Authors
- BERRY, C. R., BURDEN, B. C., & HOWELL, W. G.
- Venue
- American Political Science Review
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 2010-11
- Volume
- 104
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 783-799
- ISSN
- 0003-0554 (ISSN-L)
- 1537-5943
- OpenAlex
- W2135363208
- Cited by
- 377
- References
- 71
- FWCI
- 84.01
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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