Greasing the wheels: using pork barrel projects to build majority coalitions in congress
Auteur :
Evans, Diana
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9780521836814
Date de publication :
14 juin 2004
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 x 1,9 cm
Poids :
580 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
This book examines how Congressional leaders and the president give pork barrel projects to Congress members' districts to buy votes for broad-based national legislation. Many political leaders are willing to pay the cost of this trade-off in order to enact the broader public policies that they favor.