Essays on the Political Economy of Intergovernmental Grants

Essays on the Political Economy of Intergovernmental Grants

This dissertation focuses on how distributive politics influences the geographic allocation of federal grants to state and local governments. A secondary focus is the role of social trust in the growth of government. In the first essay, I test the degree to which the earmark ban of 2011 prevented le...

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Main Author: Gordon, Steven A.
Format: Others
Published: UKnowledge 2017
Subjects:
Intergovernmental Grants
Earmarks
Lobbying
Social Trust
Political Economy
Public Economics
Online Access:http://uknowledge.uky.edu/economics_etds/28
http://uknowledge.uky.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1027&context=economics_etds

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http://uknowledge.uky.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1027&context=economics_etds

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