Doctoral Dissertation Research in Political Science: The Politics of Grants: Presidential Influence on the Distribution of Federal Funds

政治学博士论文研究：拨款政治：总统对联邦资金分配的影响

• 批准号: 1023451
• 负责人: David Lewis
• 金额: $ 0.98万
• 依托单位: Vanderbilt University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-09-01 至 2011-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1023451&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Political; Science

This project provides a broad-based investigation into the presidential role in the federal grants process. The project examines not only the effects of presidential influence, but the ways in which it occurs. To do so, the investigator examines presidential influence, using original databases of federal grants from 1996-2008. The first part of the project seeks to answer the question "Where do grants go?" The relationship between the competitiveness of elections and the distribution of federal funds is exameined. This analysis evaluates whether states that are competitivie in presidential elections-swing states-receive more grants. The second part of the project examines whether swing states receive more federal funds druing distinct time periods, specifically as presidential elections draw near. This section seeks to provide a more complete understanding of presidential influence in the context of elections. Third, because some federal agencies are more open to political influence, the investigator examines how agency design and the number of political appointees within agencies affects the manner in which grants are allocated. Finally, the investigator conducts interviews where responses from bureaucrats, interest group lobbyists and state officials are used to evaluate the mechanisms of executive branch influence in the grants process.The broader impact of the results will significantly advance our understanding of federalism, presidential elections, presidential control of the bureaucracy, and the influences and political pressures in the federal grant process. This research provides a more complete understanding of the intersection of politics and policy in a manner that exposes its impact on the lives of every American. Becasue individuals, companies, schools, hospitals, state agencies, and thousands of research facilities count on federal grants to provide services and information and advance knowledge, this study seeks to offer insight into a system that broadly affects society on a daily basis. Through a comprehensinve analysis of the federal grants process and the external influences and pressures that influence public policy, this project will increase knowledge in the fields of political science and public administration.

该项目对联邦赠款过程中的总统角色进行了广泛的调查。 该项目不仅检查了总统影响的影响，而且还研究了其发生的方式。 为此，研究人员使用1996 - 2008年联邦赠款的原始数据库来检查总统的影响。 该项目的第一部分试图回答“赠款去哪里？”的问题。 选举的竞争力与联邦资金分配之间的关系被取消了。 该分析评估了在总统选举中竞争的州是否有更多的赠款。 该项目的第二部分研究了摇摆国家是否获得更多的联邦资金，特别是随着总统选举的临近。 本节旨在在选举背景下对总统的影响有更全面的了解。 第三，由于某些联邦机构对政治影响力更开放，因此调查人员研究了代理机构设计和机构中政治任命人数如何影响分配赠款的方式。 最后，调查人员进行访谈，官僚，利益集团游说者和州官员的回应用于评估行政部门在赠款过程中影响的机制。结果的更广泛影响将大大提高我们对联邦制，总统选举，官僚机构的总统选举的理解，以及对官僚机构的控制以及联邦赠款程序的影响和政治压力。 这项研究提供了对政治与政策的交汇处的更完整的理解，以暴露其对每个美国人生活的影响。 由于个人，公司，学校，医院，州机构以及成千上万的研究设施依靠联邦赠款提供服务和信息，并提高知识，本研究旨在提供对每天都广泛影响社会的系统的洞察力。 通过对联邦赠款流程以及影响公共政策的外部影响和压力的全面分析，该项目将增加政治学和公共管理领域的知识。