Drazen, Allan; Ilzetzki, Ethan - University of Maryland <College Park, Md.> / Department …; … - 2011
Both conventional wisdom and leading academic research view pork barrel spendingas antithetical to responsible … in theirinformation about the economic situation, allocation of pork may enable passage oflegislation appropriate to a … "crisis" that might otherwise not pass. Pork "greases thelegislative wheels" not by bribing legislators to accept legislation …