Liberals, Socialists, and pork-barrel politics in Greece
研究了1974至2009年间希腊两党（自由派与社会主义派）如何利用公共投资分配进行猪肉桶政治，发现社会主义派更倾向扩张性财政并奖励其票仓，而自由派则投资于反对派控制区以争取新选票。
This paper analyses the role of pork-barrel politics in the allocation of public investment expenditures in Greece. It proposes a model which explicitly relates the allocation of public investment to electoral results using a unique dataset covering the period from the restoration of democracy in 1974 until 2009, just before the Great Recession that radically transformed the political panorama of the country. The analysis includes 10 legislative periods marked by governments of the two parties that dominated the political arena in Greece: the Liberal and the Socialist Party. The results show that Socialist and re-elected governments applied more expansionary fiscal policies relative to Liberals. The two main parties also used different tactics when it came to pork-barrelling: while the Socialists when in government rewarded/groomed their electoral fiefs, the Liberals invested in areas controlled by the opposition to win over new votes or seats.