Equal Votes, Equal Money: Court-Ordered Redistricting and Public Expenditures in the American States

By Stephen Ansolabehere, A. Gerber, J. Snyder. American Political Science Review, 2002

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Party Control of State Government and the Distribution of Public Expenditures (2006, unknown): “At the state level, we know of only one study that has estimated e®ects of party control on the distribution of public funds (Ansolabehere et al., 2002).”
Random Events, Economic Losses, and Retrospective Voting: Implications for Democratic Competence (2010, methodology): “To address the large amount of skewness in tornado damage and fatalities, we follow other authors (e.g., Ansolabehere, Gerber, and Snyder 2002) and convert these measures into logarithms.”
Legislative Representation, Bargaining Power and the Distribution of Federal Funds: Evidence from the US Congress* (2008, background): “Ansolabehere et al. (2002) find that Baker v. Carr, which required that state legislative districts be re-apportioned every ten years, significantly altered the flow of state transfers to county 1 These data contain federal spending by Congressional districts, although the author aggregates up to…”
Does delegation of fiscal policy to an independent agency make a difference? Evidence from intergovernmental transfers in India (2007, background): “Regions with higher political representation per capita tend to receive greater government spending per capita (Wright, 1974; Porto and Sanguinetti, 2001; Ansolabehere, Gerber, and Snyder, 2002).”