The Diminishing Returns from Bringing Home the Bacon: The Rise and Fall of Distributive Politics in the United States

• In Event: Voting as a right and voting behavior: government and people relation

Brief Overview

I assess the electoral effects of Democratic infrastructure spending over the past election cycle. I show that there was marginal electoral rewards for the Democrats in counties and congressional districts that received the most federal investment.

Authors

• Joshua N. Zingher, Old Dominion University

• Benjamin David Farrer, University of Cincinnati