"Legislation passed during the 1990s attempted to move U.S. agriculture disaster relief to a more market oriented … process. The failure of this legislation has been attributed to the political system behind agricultural disaster relief. This … paper explores the impact of political influence on the allocation of U.S. direct agriculture disaster payments. The results …

We find that presidential and congressional influences affect the rate of disaster declaration and the allocation of … FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) disaster expenditures across states. States politically important to the … president have a higher rate of disaster declaration by the president, and disaster expenditures are higher in states having …

Legislation passed during the 1990s attempted to move U.S. agriculture disaster relief to a more market oriented … process. The failure of this legislation has been attributed to the political system behind agricultural disaster relief. This … paper explores the impact of political influence on the allocation of U.S. direct agriculture disaster payments. The results …

for transnational terrorism. Our two-stage game has the donor country choosing a first-stage contract consisting of … terrorism-fighting tied aid and general assistance. In stage 2, the donor decides its defensive measures, while the recipient … complementarity. A rise in terrorism in the donor increases home enforcement but may limit foreign enforcement at given aid levels. A …

This paper finds that political freedom has a significant and non-linear effect on domestic terrorism, but this effect … is not significant in the case of transnational terrorism. Some of our other novel findings are that while geography and … fractionalization may limit a county’s ability to curb terrorism, the presence of strong legal institutions deters it. ; Earlier title …