Presidential pork
Subtitle: White House influence over the distribution of federal grants
By: John Hudak
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780815725206
Subjects: Presidents; Appropriations and expenditures; Campaign funds; Government spending policy; Grants-in-aid; Decision making; Political Patronage; Executive power
Other titles: White House influence over the distribution of federal grants
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-213) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Spending power and the election-driven president; title: Pork barrel politics at the presidential level; title: Aiding and abetting the president : the role of federal agencies; title: Presidential motives in the shadow of crisis; title: A web of bureaucratic control; title: The mechanisms of presidential spending power; title: Conclusions and implications.