The Death of Pork? Federal Particularism & Local Capacity

• In Event: Local Federal Relations, Litigation, and Emergency Governance

Brief Overview

Policy implementation capacity at the local level can influence where pork-barrel spending is allocated in a federal system. I derive a newly-geocoded, municipal-bond-based measure of local capacity to study this aspect of federal particularism.

Author

• Kyle A. Van Rensselaer, New York University