Contents: 1. Policy subsystems and the pork barrel -- 2. The programmatic expansion of U.S. domestic spending -- 3. The geographic scope of domestic spending: A test of the universalism thesis -- 4. A portfolio theory of policy subsystems -- 5. Policy subsystem adaptability and resilience in the Reagan period -- 6. PAC contributions and the distribution of domestic assistance programs -- 7. Congressional elections and the pork barrel -- 8. Policy subsystems in practice and democratic theory -- App. 1 Descriptive data base of domestic assistance programs -- App. 2 Geographical data base of domestic assistance awards -- App. 3 Programs by agency and policy type -- App. 4 Departments and their distributive policy agencies -- App. 5 Federal agencies in four cabinet departments: Budgetary changes proposed by the Reagan administration for FY1983 -- App. 6 Financial assistance programs by public law bundle-- App. 7 PACs whose parent interest groups testified in hearings, grouped by public law and PAC coalition -- App. 8 Roll call votes in the U.S. House of Representatives in nine public laws -- App. 9 Probit results for House roll call votes on nine public laws -- App. 10 Concepts and measures

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