Krieger, Tim; Meierrieks, Daniel - In: European Journal of Political Economy 61 [Art. No.] 101837 (2020), pp. --
We examine the effect of population size on government size for a panel of 130 countries for the period between 1970 … and 2014. We show that previous analyses of the nexus between population size and government size are incorrectly … time-series approach that adequately accounts for these issues, we find that population size has a positive long-run effect …