pork barrel English

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pork barrel

— noun a legislative appropriation designed to ingratiate legislators with their constituents

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pork

subsidy

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The political economy of public-spending reform is tricky, and well-designed macroeconomic plans can be taken hostage by pork-barrel politics.

They believe that responding to calls for stimulus would simply lead to more such calls, creating a log-rolling, pork-barrel dynamic in which any hope for fiscal consolidation is ruled out.

These government failures include rent-seeking, pork-barrel spending, social engineering, regulatory capture, and induced dependency.

Given Japan's huge accumulated national debts, the LDP can no longer appease the electorate through pork-barrel spending.