Partisan Determinants of Federal Highway Grants

Using data from the Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration, we examine whether political ideology and political alignment affect how much a state receives in per-capita highway funding. For the period 1994 - 2008, we find evidence that Republican-dominated House of Representat...

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Published in:The Review of regional studies 2019-01, Vol.49 (3)
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