This analysis outlines a mass mailing system heavily driven by the desire of Senators to remain in office, using federal money to assist in achieving that objective. The data used here are obviously fragmentary, but they provide a foundation for more extensive work, assuming that the Senate...

The policy and political outcomes that can be fruitfully studied using the electoral period as an analytic foundation range broadly. The present research has shown that much of the pattern of state tax policy change can be traced directly to that source. It suggests strongly that state parties...

The American system of fiscal federalism requires that state and local governments finance the bulk of their budgets from own-source revenues, not transfers. This article analyzes state total taxable resources from 1981 to 2003 to evaluate how state fiscal capacity has changed in that time and...