Legislative representation, bargaining power and The distribution of federal funds: Evidence from the Us Congress

Economic Journal

Volumn 118, Issue 532, 2008, Pages 1785-1803

  Knight, Brian ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARGAINING; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; LEGISLATIVE IMPLEMENTATION; MODELING; STATE ROLE;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 52749093016     PISSN: 00130133     EISSN: 14680297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2008.02191.x     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Ansolabehere, S., Gerber, A. and Snyder, J. M. (2002). 'Equal votes, equal money: Court-ordered redistricting and public expenditures in the American states', American Political Science Review, vol. 96 (4) (December), pp. 767-77.
2. Ansolabehere, S., Snyder, J. M. and Ting, M.M. (2003). 'Bargaining in bicameral legislatures: When and why does malapportionment matter?', American Political Science Review, vol. 97 (3) (August), pp. 471-81.
3. Atlas, C., Gilligan, T., Hendershott, R. and Zupan, M. (1995). 'Slicing the federal government net spending pie: Who wins, who loses, and why', American Economic Review, vol. 85 (3) (June), pp. 624-9.
4. Banks, J. and Duggan, J. (2000). 'A bargaining model of collective choices'. American Political Science Review, vol. 94 (1) (March), pp. 73-88.
5. Baqir, R. (2002). 'Districting and government overspending', Journal of Political Economy, vol. 110 (6) (December), pp. 1318-54.
6. Baron, D. (1991). 'Majoritarian incentives, pork barrel programs, and procedural control', American Journal of Political Science, vol. 35 (1) (February), pp. 57-90.
7. Baron, D. and Ferejohn, J. (1987). 'Bargaining and agenda formation in legislatures', American Economic Review, vol. 77 (2) (May), pp. 303-9.
8. Baron, D. and Ferejohn, J. (1989). 'Bargaining in legislatures', American Political Science Review, vol. 83 (4) (December), pp. 1181-206.
9. Bennedsen, M. and Feldmann, S. (2002). 'Lobbying legislatures', Journal of Political Economy, vol. 110 (4) (August), pp. 919-46.
10. Besley, T. and Coate S. (2003). 'Centralized versus decentralized provision of local public goods: A political economy analysis', Journal of Public Economics, vol. 87 (12) (December), pp. 2611-37.
11. Bickers, K. and Stein, R. (1991). Federal Domestic Outlays, 1983-1990: A Data Book. Armonk, NY: M.E Sharpe.
12. Bradbury, J. and Crain, M. (2001). 'Legislative organization and government spending: Cross-country evidence'. Journal of Public Economics, vol. 82 (3) (December), pp. 309-25.
13. Chari, V., Jones, L. and Marimon, L. (1997). 'The economics of split-ticket voting in representative democracies', American Economic Review, vol. 87 (5) (December), pp. 957-76.
14. Coate, S. (1997). 'Distributive policy making as a source of inefficiency in representative democracies', PIER Working Paper 97-041.
15. Del Rossi, A. and Inman, R. (1999). 'Changing the price of pork: The impact of local cost sharing on legislators'demands for distributive public goods', Journal of Public Economics, vol. 71 (2) (February), pp. 247-73.
16. Dharmapala, D. (1999). 'Comparing tax expenditures and direct subsidies: the role of legislative committee structure', Journal of Public Economics, vol. 72 (3) (June), pp. 421-54.
17. Gilligan, T. and Matsusaka, J. (1995). 'Deviations from constituent interests: The role of legislative structure and political parties in the states', Economic Inquiry, vol. 33 (3) (July), pp. 383-401.
18. Helpman, E. and Persson, T. (2001). 'Lobbying and legislative bargaining', Advances in Economic Analysis and Policy, vol. 1 (1), article 3, Available at: http://www.bepress.com/bejeap/advances/vol1/ iss1/art3.
19. Knight, B. (2002). 'Endogenous federal grants and crowd-out of state government spending: Theory and evidence from the federal highway aid program', American Economic Review, vol. 92 (1) (December), pp. 71-92.
20. Knight, B. (2004). 'Parochial interests and the centralized provision of local public goods: Evidence from congressional voting on transportation projects', Journal of Public Economics, vol. 88 (3-4) (March), pp. 845-66.
21. Knight, B. (2005). 'Estimating the value of proposal power', American Economic Review, vol. 95 (5) (December), pp. 1639-52.
22. Leblanc, W., Snyder, J. M. and Tripathi, M. (2000). 'Majority-rule bargaining and the under provision of public investment goods', Journal of Public Economics, vol. 75 (1) (January), pp. 21-47.
23. Lee, F. (1998). 'Representation and public policy: The consequences of senate apportionment for the geographic distribution of federal funds', The Journal of Politics, vol. 60 (1) (February), pp. 34-62.
24. Levitt S. and Poterba, J. (1999). 'Congressional distributive politics and state economic performance', Public Choice, vol. 99 (April), pp. 185-216.
25. Levitt S. and Snyder, J. M. (1997). 'The impact of federal spending on house election outcomes', Journal of Political Economy, vol. 105 (1) (February), pp. 30-53.
26. Lockwood, B. (2002). 'Distributive politics and the benefits of decentralization', Review of Economic Studies, vol. 69 (2) (April), pp. 313-37.
27. McKelvey, R. D. and Riezman, R. (1992). 'Seniority in legislatures', American Political Science Review, vol. 86 (4) (December), pp. 951-65.
28. Persson, T. (1998). 'Economic policy and special interest politics', Economic Journal, vol. 108 (447) (March), pp. 310-27.
29. Persson, T., Roland, G. and Tabellini, G. (2000). 'Comparative politics and public finance', Journal of Political Economy, vol. 108 (6) (December), pp. 1121-61.
30. Persson, T. and Tabellini, G. (2002). 'Political economics and public finance', in (A. Auerbach and M. Feldstein, eds), Handbook of Public Economics, vol III, pp. 1549-1659, Amsterdam: New Holland.
31. Rodden, J. (2002). 'Strength in numbers? Representation and redistribution in the European union', European Union Politics, vol. 3 (2), pp. 151-75.
32. Snyder, J.M., Ting, M.M. and Ansolabehere, S. (2005). 'Legislative bargaining under weighted voting', American Economic Review, vol. 95 (4) (September), pp. 981-1004.
33. Weingast, B., Shepsle, K. and Johnsen, C. (1981). 'The political economy of benefits and costs: A neoclassical approach to distributive politics', Journal of Political Economy, vol. 89 (4) (August), pp. 642-64.