TY - JOUR
T1 - All the President's Senators
T2 - Presidential Copartisans and the Allocation of Federal Grants
AU - Christenson, Dino P.
AU - Kriner, Douglas L.
AU - Reeves, Andrew
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 Washington University in St. Louis
PY - 2017/5
Y1 - 2017/5
N2 - Previous scholarship argues that House members' partisan relationship to the president is among the most important determinants of the share of federal dollars they bring home to their constituents. Do presidential politics also shape distributive outcomes in the Senate? Analyzing the allocation of more than $8.5 trillion of federal grants across the states from 1984 to 2008, we show that presidential copartisan senators are more successful than opposition party members in securing federal dollars for their home states. Moreover, presidents appear to target grants ex post to states that gain presidential copartisans in recent elections.
AB - Previous scholarship argues that House members' partisan relationship to the president is among the most important determinants of the share of federal dollars they bring home to their constituents. Do presidential politics also shape distributive outcomes in the Senate? Analyzing the allocation of more than $8.5 trillion of federal grants across the states from 1984 to 2008, we show that presidential copartisan senators are more successful than opposition party members in securing federal dollars for their home states. Moreover, presidents appear to target grants ex post to states that gain presidential copartisans in recent elections.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84997208368
U2 - 10.1111/lsq.12160
DO - 10.1111/lsq.12160
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84997208368
SN - 0362-9805
VL - 42
SP - 269
EP - 294
JO - Legislative Studies Quarterly
JF - Legislative Studies Quarterly
IS - 2
ER -