Measuring Marginal Change in Contract Markets as Patronage in U. S. Federal Procurement

• In Event: Distributive Influence of American Bureaucracies

Brief Overview

We find evidence that contract market change takes place contingent upon the partisan alignment among presidents, Senators, and their ideological alignment with awarding agencies.

Authors

• William G. Resh, University of Southern California

• Eli Keunyoung Lee, University of Southern California