Presidential pork: Executive veto power and distributive politics

American Political Science Review

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 117-129

  McCarty, Nolan M ^a  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

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EID: 0034145389     PISSN: 00030554     EISSN: 15375943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2586384     Document Type: Article

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