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		Political Research Online
		Midwest Political Science Association 67th Annual National Conference

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Politics versus Risk in State Allocations of Federal Security Grants Dr. Holly T. Goerdel Assistant Professor of Public Administration University of Kansas hgoerdel@ku.edu Abstract Despite popular disparagement of homeland security programming and policies few social scientists have considered the question of whether our democracy has rationally protected itself against domestic terrorism or whether distributive politics has crowded out security imperatives. In this paper I apply distributive political theory to the question of whether politics versus risk determines government spending
are strongly contested by political officials in power. A key conclusion is that fair-share strategies in intergovernmental grant politics actually produce unfair or irrational allocation outcomes in the area of security: the protection of status quo formulas is very much in the interest of political actors especially if it means they might otherwise miss out on the opportunity to secure fiscal resources for constituents (in this case state and local governments) in a severely distressed economy – even at