Allocating the U.S. Federal Budget to the States: The Impact of the President

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Government ideology and economic policy-making in the United States—a survey (2017, unknown): “…alignment between ideology-induced politicians across the federal, state and local levels (e.g., Levitt and Snyder 1995; Krause and Bowman 2005; Ansolabehere and Snyder 2006; Larcinese et al. 2006; Berry et al. 2010; Albouy 2013; Young and Sobel 2013; Goetzke et al. 2017; Hankins et al. 2017).”
Tying Your Enemy's Hands in Close Races: The Politics of Federal Transfers in Brazil (2012, methodology): “We identify the impact of “political alignment” between the local mayor and the Brazilian president on the amount of federal transfers allocated to each municipality by comparing places where the candidate aligned with the president barely won with places where the candidate aligned with the preside”
The President and the Distribution of Federal Spending (2010, background): “Such a view is consistent with Larcinese et al.’s (2006) finding that a state receives more federal funding when its governor is from the same party as the president.”
Intergovernmental Grants as Signals and the Alignment Effect: Theory and Evidence (2015, methodology): “The specifications with and without controls produce very similar results and were 21 Following Lee and Lemieux (2010), this is obtained by jointly testing the significance of a set of bin dummies included as additional regressors in themodel.”