PARTISAN REPRESENTATION IN CONGRESS AND THE GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION OF FEDERAL FUNDS

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Albouy, David
• 署名单位: University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; National Bureau of Economic Research
• 刊物名称: REVIEW OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0034-6535
• DOI: 10.1162/REST_a_00343
• 发表日期: 2013-03
• 页码: 127-141
• 关键词: elect policies; voters affect; POLITICS; PERSPECTIVE; POWER

摘要

In a two-party legislature, districts represented by the majority may receive greater funds if majority-party legislators have greater proposal power or disproportionately form coalitions with each other. Funding types received by districts may depend on their legislators' party identity when party preferences differ. Estimates from the United States, using fixed-effect and regression-discontinuity designs, indicate that states represented by members of Congress in the majority receive greater federal grants, especially in transportation, and defense spending. States represented by Republicans receive more for defense and transportation than those represented by Democrats; the latter receive more spending for education and urban development.