pork barrel

(noun)

The appropriation of government spending for localized projects secured solely or primarily to bring money to a representative's district

Related Terms

Examples of pork barrel in the following topics:

  • Constituency

    • Congressional members will often attempt to maintain support with constituency members through practices such as pork barrel politics.

  • The Rule of Law

    • If all political power grows out of the barrel of a gun, this can only heighten our concerns about how that power is organized and employed.

  • The 18th Amendment

  • Introduction to Evaluating and Justifying Government

    • Mao Tse-tung, Chinese Communist leader, wrote: "All political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. " Anarchists, assuming that all involuntary associations are bad and seeing that governments are involuntary associations, conclude that there should be no government.