Frisch, who teaches at East Carolina U. and is a former Treasury Department employee, studies the most common form of pork barrel spending in Congress: appropriations earmarks. This book identifies w
It has become part of US political convention to attack 'earmarks' - legislative provisions that direct funds to specific projects - as wasteful and corrupt. In this provocative book Scott A. Frisch a
In this groundbreaking work, Scott A. Frisch and Sean Q Kelly draw on significant new data from congressional archives?gleaned from the papers of both Democratic and Republican leaders from the 85th t
It has become fashionable in Washington to lambaste earmarks as examples of corruption and waste in the US Congress, but Frisch and Kelly (professors of political science at California State U.) beg t
"The United States currently faces challenges of historic proportions: The deepest recession since the Great Depression, an international economy teetering toward a partial collapse, two wars, and str
The United States currently faces challenges of historic proportions: The deepest recession since the Great Depression, an international economy teetering toward a partial collapse, two wars, and stru
Frisch and Kelly (both political science, California State U.-Channel Islands) chart the two-year struggle between President Carter and the US Congress over funding for water projects that culminated
