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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811806703321

Autore

Hudak John Joseph

Titolo

Presidential pork : White House influence over the distribution of federal grants / / John Hudak

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, District of Columbia : , : Brookings Institution Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-8157-2521-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (pages cm)

Disciplina

336.3/9

Soggetti

Grants-in-aid - United States

Executive power - United States

Government spending policy - United States

Presidents - United States - Decision making

United States Appropriations and expenditures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Spending power and the election-driven president -- Pork barrel politics at the presidential level -- Aiding and abetting the president : the role of federal agencies -- Presidential motives in the shadow of crisis -- A web of bureaucratic control -- The mechanisms of presidential spending power -- Conclusions and implications.