The Allocation of Federal Aid: The Distribution of Federal Mass Transportation Assistance From 1965--1986

This dissertation reacts to two problems found in the existing literature on federal aid allocations: the first concerns the almost exclusive focus given to committee influences, the second the implicit assumption that influences and resulting federal aid distributions are invariant over time. A temporal model of federal aid allocations is developed which stresses dynamics and three problems which program managers commonly face: identifying a core clientele and devising ways to assist them, expanding the core and meeting its changing needs, and making adjustments to outside challenges to the program once it has been established. It is then theorized that program managers develop allocation strategies which are influenced by non-committee and noncongressional factors such as broad sentiments in Congress, administration policies, clientele demands, and program characteristics, rather than appropriation and authorization committees. The importance of these factors, and hence allocation patterns, likely change in predictable ways as programs grow and develop over time.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Political Science

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2014

Author dc:creator

• Hamman, John Arden

• Political Science, General
• Political Science, Public Administration
• Urban and Regional Planning

Identifier

(UMI)AAI8908699

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/69814