Governors, Grants, and Elections Fiscal Federalism in the American States【電子書籍】[ Sean Nicholson-Crotty ]

＜p＞＜strong＞How partisan politics influence grant-related decisions at the state level.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Each year, states receive hundreds of billions of dollars in grants-in-aid from the federal government. Gubernatorial success is often contingent upon the pursuit and allocation of these grants. In ＜em＞Governors, Grants, and Elections＜/em＞, Sean Nicholson-Crotty reveals the truth about how U.S. governors strategically utilize these funds. Far from spending federal money in apolitical ways, they usually pursue their own policy interests in the hopes of maximizing their or their party’s electoral success.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Nicholson-Crotty analyzes three decades of data on the receipt and expenditure of grants in all fifty states. He also draws compelling evidence from governors’ public speeches and interviews with state officials. Ultimately, he demonstrates that incumbent governors’ use of grants to deliver policies desired by core constituentsーalong with their opportunistic funding of public an．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る