Using data on federal highway grants from the Department of Transportation's Federal Highway Administration, this paper investigates several questions regarding the political economy of highway funding. We investigate the period 1994 - 2008 and examine whether political alignment and political...

Using data on federal highway grants from the Department of Transportation's Federal High- way Administration, this paper investigates several questions regarding the political economy of highway funding. We investigate the period 1994 - 2008 and examine whether political alignment and political...

This article uses Puerto Rico's ongoing financial crisis as an opportunity to explore complex policy issues that arise when a federalist regime's central government must decide whether – and how – to assist a struggling subnational government entity. It first describes Puerto Rico's dramatic...

This paper focuses on the organizational, structural, financial, and staffing aspects of existing state Advisory Commissions on Intergovernmental Relations agencies, and on identifying those factors which - at least from the perception of agencies and agency directors themselves - most...

Research on the distribution of federal expenditures has provided mixed evidence showing that states with more legislators who belong to the president's party and states with more legislators in the chamber majority tend to receive a larger allocation of federal funds. We add to this research by...