List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
Appendix 1. US intergovernmental grant data and sources
2. Asymmetric responses to increases and decreases in grants
Appendix 2A. Response of state and local highway spending to increases and decreases in federal highway grants
Appendix 2B. Asymmetric responses in economic models
3. Federal block grants implications for spending effort by states and localities
Appendix 3. The effect of federal alcohol and drug abuse block grants on state and local government spending: the role of federal oversight
4. Political economy of grant allocations: the case of federal aid for highways
Appendix 4. Political economy of federal aid for highways additional empirical results
Index
