Perpetuating the pork barrel: policy subsystems and American democracy

Abstract

Part I: 1. Policy subsystems and the pork barrel Part II: 2. The Programmatic expansion of US domestic spending 3. The geographic scope of domestic spending: a test of the universalism thesis Part III: 4. A portfolio theory of policy subsystems 5. PAC contributions and the distribution of domestic assistance programs 6. Policy subsystem adaptability and resilience in the Reagan period 7. Congressional elections and the pork barrel Part IV: 8. Policy subsystems in practice and democratic theory Appendices.