This review of the theoretical literature on legislative and multilateral bargaining begins with
presentation of the seminal Baron-Ferejohn model. The review then encompasses the …

The fully revised and updated new edition of this textbook continues to provide the most
accessible overview of the main approaches in the study of public policy. It seeks to review …

Scholarship on distributive politics focuses almost exclusively on the internal operations of
Congress, paying particular attention to committees and majority parties. This article …

This paper provides new evidence on the determinants of the US federal budget allocation
to the states. Departing from the existing literature that gives prominence to Congress, we …

Political science is an intensely quantitative discipline, and models are central. Political
scientists use models—formal and informal, statistical and qualitative—to investigate and …

I argue that presidents use unilateral powers for particularistic aims to gain electoral support.
Specifically, I examine presidential disaster declarations, which allow presidents to …

In a two-party legislature, districts represented by the majority may receive greater funds if
majority-party legislators have greater proposal power or disproportionately form coalitions …

This paper analyzes how US presidential candidates should allocate resources across
states to maximize the probability of winning the election, by developing and estimating a …

When influencing the allocation of federal dollars across the country, do presidents strictly
pursue maximally efficient outcomes, or do they systematically target dollars to politically …

Scholars have focused attention toward congressional influence over distributive grant
allocations, but they have less frequently examined the extent to which administrative …