Chapter 1 Whose Pork Is It Anyway?; Chapter 2 “No Money Shall Be Drawn from the Treasury …”; Part I Congress, the Executive, and Earmarks; Chapter 3 Responding to Local Conditions; Chapter 4 Earmarks and the National Interest; Chapter 5 Earmarks and the Executive Branch; Part II Earmarks, the Media, and Lobbyists; Chapter 6 Earmarks and the Media; Chapter 7 Lobbyists and Earmarks; Part III The Earmarks Explosion and the Paradox of Reform; Chapter 8 The Explosion of Earmarks; Chapter 9 Earmarks and the Paradox of Reform;
Scott A. Frisch is Professor of Political Science at California State University. He and Sean Kelly have coauthored several books, including, most recently, Jimmy Carter and the Water Wars: Presidential Influence and the Politics of Pork (2008). Sean Q. Kelly is Associate Professor of Political Science at California State University. He is a former APSA Congressional Fellow serving as a policy analyst for the Senate Democratic Policy Committee.
"This is a worthwhile read for anyone interested in earmarks, the
federal deficit, and the role of Congress and congressional
spending decisions in the larger government/political picture.
Highly recommended. General readers and undergraduate students at
all levels." —CHOICE
“I’m a fan and am delighted to see such a book—at just the right
moment in the debate about earmarks.”
—Mickey Edwards, Aspen Institute and former U.S. Representative
(R-Oklahoma)
“One of the highest callings for political scientists is to
puncture conventional wisdom using data, historical context, and
logic. In Cheese Factories on the Moon Scott Frisch and Sean Kelly
do just that by demolishing the easy rhetoric and demagoguery on
earmarks that are employed regularly by politicians and editorial
writers across the country. One doesn’t have to agree with every
element of their thesis to see that the reality is nowhere near as
simple as that conventional wisdom has suggested.”
—Norm Ornstein, Resident Scholar American Enterprise Institute
“Cheese Factories on the Moon counters popular criticisms about
earmarks. Frisch and Kelly have written a unique and balanced book
about congressional earmarks and the appropriations process
generally. Every student of Congress and especially journalists
covering Congress should buy this incisive analysis about the
realities of earmarks. The book will become a classic on how and
why earmarks are adopted and what their consequences are for the
public good.”
—James A. Thurber, American University
“Scott Frisch and Sean Kelly, unlike many academics, really ‘get
it.’ They are also smart enough and brave enough to challenge
conventional wisdom when it comes to politics and public policy.
This book, like their previous work, should be must reading for
students and instructors of political science for sure, but it
would help a lot of pundits, too—if they’d just quit talking long
enough to read it!”
—Leslie C. Francis, Washington Media Group and former Deputy Chief
of Staff for Jimmy Carter
"Frisch and Kelly's book is a valuable counterpoint to those who
exaggerate and misconstrue the nature of earmarks." — Congress &
the Presidency
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