 | Pork Barrel Politics: How Government Spending Determines Elections in a Polarized Era Subjects: United States. Congress -- Elections; United States. Congress -- Appropriations and expenditures; Government spending policy -- United States; Polarization (Social sciences) -- Political aspects -- United States; Andrew Sidman offers a systematic explanation for how political polarization affects the electoral influence of district-level federal spending. Pork Barrel Politics is an empirically rich account of the surprising repercussions of bringing pork home, with important consequences in our polarized era. Sidman Andrew : Andrew Sidman is associate professor of politics at John JayCollege of Criminal Justice. This is his first book.Andrew H. Sidman is associate professor of political science at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York. |
