This article examines the political economy of U.S. federal highway demonstration grant allocations. Demonstration grants are a rapidly growing segment of federal highway grants directly earmarked for a congressional district by Congress, unlike the majority of highway grants where Congress...

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...