Larcinese, Valentino; Snyder, James M.; Testa, Cecilia - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2009
This paper tests various hypotheses about distributive politics by studying the distribution of federal spending across U.S. states over the period 1978-2002. We improve on previous work by using survey data to measure the share of voters in each state that are Democrats, Republicans, and...