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- Title
Bicamerallsm and Geographic Politics: Allocating Funds in the House and Senate.
- Authors
Lee, Frances E.
- Abstract
The article analyses the difference between the preferences of the U.S. House and Senate in the allocation of federal funds, and of how these differences are reconciled, provides a new insight into the consequences of bicameralism. The author presents data on the distributional formulas adopted by the House and Senate between 1956 and 1998 for six surface transportation authorizations. Three important implications follow from these patterns in House-Senate interactions. First, House members are not more parochial than senators. Second, the Senate has a greater impact on the overall distribution of federal funds to states than the House has. Third, the different incentives of House members and senators with respect to different policy tools should sensitize political scientists.
- Subjects
UNITED States; LEGISLATIVE bodies; DOMESTIC economic assistance; UNITED States. Congress. House; UNITED States. Congress. Senate; TRANSPORTATION; UNITED States legislators
- Publication
Legislative Studies Quarterly, 2004, Vol 29, Issue 2, p185
- ISSN
0362-9805
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3162/036298004X201140