Larcinese, Valentino; James M. Snyder, Jr.; Testa, Cecilia - Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics … - 2006
This paper tests various hypotheses about distributive politics by studying the distributionof federal spending across U.S. states over the period 1978-2002. We improve onprevious work by using survey data to measure the share of voters in each state that areDemocrats, Republicans, and...