Pressure cooker politics: Partisanship and symbolism in state certification of federal stimulus funds

State Politics and Policy Quarterly

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 58-74

  Miller, Edward Alan ^a   Blanding, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

budgeting; economic policy; Federal State; governors; policy process

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859892998     PISSN: 15324400     EISSN: 19461607     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1532440011433593     Document Type: Article

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