Public managers who operate within cross-jurisdictional governance regimes face substantial difficulties in facilitating network collaboration. Scholars have long suggested that non-congruence of geographic borders can create coordination problems among the political communities within...

Combining data on federal contract awards by agency and location, agency attributes, and the political dynamics at play over the course of a twenty-year panel, we model the relative change in contract awards within and across states as a function of the three-dimensional relationship among...

In theory, students of democracy hold that voting is the hallmark of a responsive government. One measure of responsive government is the fit between citizens' policy expectations and those of their agents, the elected officials. We examine fluctuations in federal awards and assistance to House...