President's cabinet heads control the pork, VU research finds
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2009-02-16
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Vanderbilt News Service
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Includes descriptive metadata provided by producer in MP3 file: "InterVU - Podcasts - President's cabinet heads control the pork, VU research finds - While many people associate the word 'pork' with lawmakers wasteful spending for pet projects, new Vanderbilt political science research demonstrates the importance of cabinet secretaries and their political beliefs in the distribution of lucrative federal grants." By Vanderbilt University. Ann Marie Deer Owens interviews Vanderbilt political science professor Christian Grose about his research on the role of Cabinet members' political leanings in the distribution of government "pork." He co-wrote an article called "Secretaries of Pork?" for the Journal of Politics.
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InterVU, Pork barrel spending, United States. Cabinet, Cabinet secretaries, Secretaries of pork?