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President and the distribution of federal spending / Berry, Christopher R; Burden, Barry C; Howell, William G

Howell, William G	Journal Article
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2010.

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Scholarship on distributive politics focuses almost exclusively on the internal operations of Congress, paying particular attention to committees and majority parties. This article highlights the president, who has extensive opportunities, both ex ante and ex post, to influence the distribution of federal outlays. We analyze two databases that track the geographic spending of nearly every domestic program over a 24-year period-the largest and most comprehensive panels of federal spending patterns ever assembled. Using district and county fixed-effects estimation strategies, we find no evidence of committee influence and mixed evidence that majority party members receive larger shares of federal outlays. We find that districts and counties receive systematically more federal outlays when legislators in the president's party represent them.

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Congress ; Politics Focuses ; Internal Operations of Congress

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ID: 060952

Presidents, congress and the Use of force / Howell, William G; Pevehouse, Jon C

Winter 2005 Journal Article

Howell, William G	Journal Article
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Winter 2005.

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Use of force ; United States ; Military Engagements

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When congress stops wars / Howell, William G; Pevehouse, Jon C

Howell, William G	Journal Article
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Publication	2007.
Summary/Abstract	Since the Democrats regained control of Congress, the Hill has been alive with the sound of hearings. Congress' earlier slumber and recent awakening should come as no surprise: for the last six decades, the partisan composition of Congress has defined the politics of war. Now facing a Democratic majority, President George W. Bush will find it far more difficult to stay in Iraq

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Iraq ; United States ; United States - Foreign Policy - Iraq

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