Perpetuating the Pork Barrel - Policy Subsystems and American Democracy

Klappentext Stein and Bickers explore the policy subsystems--links among members of Congress! interest groups! government agencies--that blanket the American political landscape. They employ a new data base detailing federal outlays to Congressional districts for each federal program to examine four myths about the impact of policy subsystems on American government: that policy subsystems are a major contributor to the federal deficit! that federal programs grow and rarely die! that subsystem actors seek to universalize the scope of program benefits! and that the flow of program benefits to constituencies ensures legislators' reelection. Zusammenfassung Stein and Bickers explore the policy subsystems that blanket the American political landscape employing a database detailing federal outlays to Congressional districts for each federal program. They examine four myths about the impact of policy subsystems on American government. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I: 1. Policy subsystems and the pork barrel; Part II: 2. The Programmatic expansion of US domestic spending; 3. The geographic scope of domestic spending: a test of the universalism thesis; Part III: 4. A portfolio theory of policy subsystems; 5. PAC contributions and the distribution of domestic assistance programs; 6. Policy subsystem adaptability and resilience in the Reagan period; 7. Congressional elections and the pork barrel; Part IV: 8. Policy subsystems in practice and democratic theory; Appendices.

Product details

• Authors: Kenneth N. Bickers, Robert M. Stein, Robert M. (Rice University Stein, Robert M. Bickers Stein
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.08.1997
• EAN: 9780521595841
• ISBN: 978-0-521-59584-1
• No. of pages: 250
• Series: Policy Subsystems and American
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education