http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/earmarks Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:41:29 -0400 Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:41:29 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1594/partisan-pork-how-house-delegation-cohesion-affects-earmark-spending By Matthew Waskiewicz - The federal earmark is a topic often lamented by the general public as corrupt and wasteful. Until recently, this "pork" was a mainstay of politics in Washington. Because distributive spending is often used to advance partisan goals such as reelection, previous scholarship suggested that legislators of the same party would work together to secure this money, resulting in higher federal earmark spending per person. Using a dummy variable for party majority within a House delegation, state-level data was analyzed through a regression analysis of House delegation cohesion and federal earmark spending... Sat, 31 May 2014 12:00 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1594/partisan-pork-how-house-delegation-cohesion-affects-earmark-spending