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Governors, Grants, and Elections

Fiscal Federalism in the American States
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Each year, states receive hundreds of billions of dollars in grants-in-aid from the federal government. Gubernatorial success is often contingent upon the pursuit and allocation of these grants. InGovernors, Grants, and Elections, Sean Nicholson-Crotty reveals the truth about how U.S. governors strategically utilize these funds. Far from spending federal money in apolitical ways, they usually pursue their own policy interests in the hopes of maximizing their or their partys electoral success. Nicholson-Crotty analyzes three decades of data on the receipt and expenditure of grants in all fifty states. He also draws compelling evidence from governors public speeches and interviews with state officials. Ultimately, he demonstrates that incumbent governors use of grants to deliver policies desired by core constituentsalong with their opportunistic funding of public and private goods that appeal to noncore median votersenables them to increase approval, legislative success, and, ultimately, vote share for themselves or their parties.The inaugural book in the Johns Hopkins Studies in American Public Policy and Management series,Governors, Grants, and Elections is a significant and accessible work of public policy scholarship that sits at the nexus of multiple fields within political science.

Series Editors' Foreword
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
2. A Political Theory of Fiscal Federalism in the States
3. The Strategic Pursuit of Federal Grants
4. The Strategic Expenditure of Federal Grants
5. Grants and the Electoral Connection
Conclusion
Notes
References
Index

""In short, this book raises as many new questions as it answers and will likely set the research agenda for the study of American federalism for years to come.""

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