Can’t buy me love? An experiment on the relationship between federal grant spending and public approval of federal agencies
通过调查实验，研究了联邦机构拨款支出如何影响公众对机构的评价，发现当拨款来自政治对立的机构时，共和党人的评价反而更负面。
Previous research finds that grant spending can improve the standing of politicians and institutions with some in the public. It is unclear whether this effect holds for federal agencies as well, which are largely responsible for allocating these funds. We develop a theory that links agency grant spending to the likelihood of an individual supporting the awarding federal agency, with the expectation that this relationship is conditioned by the citizen’s partisan identification. Using a survey experiment, we find that an increase in federal grant spending, from agencies that they politically oppose, is associated with Republicans offering a more negative evaluation.