caa a22 4500 386342539 CHVBK 20180307111758.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198903 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/1956440 doi S0003055400082319 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/1956440 Rich Michael J. Brown University Distributive Politics and the Allocation of Federal Grants [Elektronische Daten] [Michael J. Rich] Understanding the dynamics of policy distribution requires an appreciation of federal grant programs that have achieved a prominent place in nearly all areas of domestic policy. The theoretical literature on distributive politics, however, focuses almost exclusively on a centralized, top-down view of policy distribution. By examining the role of presidents, legislators, and bureaucrats, scholars have ignored participants who have become key actors in the distribution of federal expenditures—the recipient jurisdictions. This analysis of the allocation patterns under six federal programs shows that local governments exert important influences on the distribution of federal grants and that the distributional patterns and their determinants vary over time. The analysis also points out the importance of disaggregation by focusing on programs and recipient jurisdictions, as opposed to total federal expenditures and regions, states, or congressional districts. Copyright © American Political Science Association 1989 American Political Science Review Cambridge University Press 83/1(1989-03), 193-213 0003-0554 83:1<193 1989 83 PSR https://doi.org/10.2307/1956440 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/1956440 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Rich Michael J. Brown University NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- American Political Science Review Cambridge University Press 83/1(1989-03), 193-213 0003-0554 83:1<193 1989 83 PSR CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge