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pork barrel politics: a standalone construct

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spending on local projects in members' districts, used by leaders to win votes for broader policy coalitions.

In political science, pork barrel politics refers to spending on local projects in members' districts, used by leaders to win votes for broader policy coalitions. This meaning comes from Evans (1994) in American Journal of Political Science.[1]

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  1. Evans, D. (1994). Policy and Pork: The Use of Pork Barrel Projects to Build Policy Coalitions in the House of Representatives. American Journal of Political Science, 38(4), 894. https://doi.org/10.2307/2111726

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