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Author Evans, Diana, 1947-

Title Greasing the wheels : using pork barrel projects to build majority coalitions in Congress / Diana Evans.

Imprint Cambridge ; New York, N.Y. : Cambridge University Press, 2004.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  328.730775 E15g 2004    ---  Available
Description xii, 267 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-258) and index.
Contents 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?
Subject United States. Congress -- Voting.
Coalition (Social sciences)
United States. Congress -- Appropriations and expenditures.
United States -- Politics and government.
ISBN 0521836816
0521545323 (pb.)

 
    
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