TY  - JOUR
AU  - Albouy,David
TI  - Partisan Representation in Congress and the Geographic Distribution of Federal Funds
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 15224
PY  - 2009
Y2  - August 2009
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w15224
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w15224.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
David Albouy
Department of Economics
University of Michigan
611 Tappan Street
351C Lorch Hall
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1220
Tel: 734/763-9619
E-Mail: albouy@umich.edu
AB  - In a two-party legislature, districts represented by the majority party may receive greater spending if legislators in the majority have greater proposal power or disproportionately form coalitions with each other. The type of spending received may depend on the party-identity of its legislators if parties differ in ideology. Estimates from the United States -- using fixed-effect and regression-discontinuity designs -- indicate that states represented by members of Congress in the majority receive greater federal grants, especially in transportation. States represented by Republicans receive more defense spending than those represented by Democrats; the latter receive more spending for education and urban development.
ER  -