Bureaucratic Activity and Earmark Funding in the U.S.

• In Event: Bureaucratic Politics in the United States

Brief Overview

This project asks if earmark funding is a source of political control of agencies. Using earmarks and state rules from FY2020 to 2024, we investigate whether earmark allocation patterns affect the creation and adoption of state bureaucratic rules.

Authors

• Nicholas Howard, Concordia College at Moorhead

• Tracey Bark, Auburn University at Montgomery

• Lily Medved-Charpentier, Concordia College at Moorhead

• Ben Cook, Concordia College at Moorhead