CONGRESS AND THE CHANGING DISTRIBUTION OF FEDERAL OUTLAYS,FY81-FY86* |
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| Authors: | Gerald R. Webster |
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| Affiliation: | GERALD R. WEBSTER is Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Alabana, Tuscalosa, AL 35487. His interests include electoral geography and the geography of public finance. |
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| Abstract: | Did Congressional influence play a role in the distribution of federal outlays between FY81 and FY86? This study hypothesizes that states with majority party House and Senate delegations and with seniority in the delegations experienced the largest increases in federal expenditures. These two hypotheses are tested for fifteen divisions of federal outlays using a stepwise regression model. The results provide only very modest evidence of any systematic Congressional influence over changes in the distribution of federal outlays during the study period. |
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| Keywords: | federal outlays Congressional seniority Congressional partisanship |
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