Faithin Omaha eBook Collection

Stein and Bickers explore the policy subsystems that blanket the American political landscape.

Conventional wisdom holds that legislators who bring “pork”—federal funds for local projects—back home to their districts are better able to fend off po

No legislature in the world has a greater influence over its nation's public affairs than the US Congress. The Congress's centrality in the US system of governm

Pork barrel projects would surely rank near the top of most observers' lists of Congress's most widely despised products. Yet, political leaders in Congress and

Dean Baker, codirector of the Center for Economic and Policy Research recounts the strategies used by the country’s top economic policymakers to conceal their