Professor Kriner Publishes New Book: The Particularistic President
Professor Doug Kriner, along with former BU colleague (now at Washington University) Andrew Reeves, recently published a new book with Cambridge University Press. The book, “The Particularistic President: Executive Branch Politics and Political Inequality” analyzes how U.S. Presidents distribute federal grants and other resources to states, at least in part, for political reasons. Kriner and Reeves look at the distribution of things such as military resources, transportation funding, and disaster relief funds. They ask questions such as: do pivotal electoral swing states get more resources than other states? They find that they do. Most generally, the provide substantial amounts of data that challenges traditional notions that the President uniformly represents a national constituency and counter-balances the more parochial concerns of the legislative branch. 