Greasing the Wheels Using Pork Barrel Projects to Build Majority Coalitions in Congress

Name: Greasing the Wheels Using Pork Barrel Projects to Build Majority Coalitions in Congress
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ISBN: 9780521545327

ISBN-10: 0521545323

ISBN-13: 9780521545327

Edition: 2004

Authors: Diana Evans

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Other books have documented pork barrel projects in different policy areas, but none has examined the process of using pork to buy votes for broad public policy. This book reveals how Congressional leaders and the President give pork barrel projects to Congressional members' districts to buy their votes for broad-based national legislation. It does so through interviews with key actors--who provide the basis for a rich narrative of the process of passing the bills as well as statistical analysis.

Book details

List price: $36.99
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 6/14/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



List of Tables and Figures


Acknowledgments



Introduction



Pork Barrel Politics and General Interest Legislation



Who Calls the Shots? The Allocation of Pork Barrel Projects



Highway Demonstration Projects and Voting on the Federal Highway Program



Presidential Bargaining with Congress: The NAFTA Bazaar



Pork Barreling in the Senate: Do Both Parties Do It?



Conclusions


References