very little correlation between government expenditure and trust but a strong correlation with delivering on core tasks …. This leads us to conclude that it is not government spending per se that needs to increase to build trust, but rather … better focused government activities. …

and size of government, but with rather mixed empirical results. Moreover, relations between state size and quality of … to the existing approaches, how budgetary and non-budgetary scope of government differentiates among smaller and larger … states in respect to the smaller size of government and quality of governance. Thus, although potential scale economies …