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Greasing the Wheels: Using Pork Barrel Projects to Build Majority Coalitions in Congress Evans, Diana (Trinity College, Connecticut)
Greasing the Wheels: Using Pork Barrel Projects to Build Majority Coalitions in Congress
Evans, Diana (Trinity College, Connecticut)
This book examines how Congressional leaders and the president give pork barrel projects to Congress members' districts to buy votes for broad-based national legislation. Many political leaders are willing to pay the cost of this trade-off in order to enact the broader public policies that they favor.
280 pages, 26 tables
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | June 14, 2004 |
| ISBN13 | 9780521836814 |
| Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
| Pages | 280 |
| Dimensions | 160 × 236 × 23 mm · 564 g |
| Language | English |