Ansolabehere, Stephen; Snyder, James M. - In: Scandinavian Journal of Economics 108 (2006) 4, pp. 547-569
This paper examines the effects of party control of state governments on the distribution of intergovernmental transfers across counties from 1957 to 1997. We find that the governing parties skew the distribution of funds in favor of areas that provide them with the strongest electoral support....