Redistricting and the Rise of Pork Barrel Politics (a.k.a. "This Little Piggy Went to Washington")
Richard Holden
Mon Jan 22, 10:30am-12:00pm, E51-145
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
This talk will examine the link between the increasingly aggressive use of "gerrymandering", the increase in congressional earmarks, and ideological polarization in the US congress. There will be a mixture of empirical evidence and theoretical explanations. I will argue that advances in redistricting technology have led to a more polarized congress and that bargaining in this more polarized legislature has led to the remarkable rise in earmarks/pork.
Contact: Denise MacDougall, dmac@mit.edu
Sponsor: Economics
Latest update: 13-Dec-2006
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