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Perpetuating the Pork Barrel: Policy Subsystems and American Democracy
Contributor(s): Stein, Robert M. (Author), Bickers, Kenneth N. (Author)
ISBN: 1139174452     ISBN-13: 9781139174459
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
OUR PRICE:   $213.75  
Product Type: Open Ebook - Other Formats
Published: June 2012
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BISAC Categories:
- Business & Economics | Public Finance
- Political Science | American Government - General
Dewey: 336.390
 
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Stein and Bickers explore the policy subsystems--links among members of Congress, interest groups, government agencies--that blanket the American political landscape. They employ a new data base detailing federal outlays to Congressional districts for each federal program to examine four myths about the impact of policy subsystems on American government: that policy subsystems are a major contributor to the federal deficit, that federal programs grow and rarely die, that subsystem actors seek to universalize the scope of program benefits, and that the flow of program benefits to constituencies ensures legislators' reelection.