possible explanation of this differential effect, we explore whether perceived government legitimacy (measured by satisfaction … government may “get away” with being big since legitimacy can affect people’s behavioral response to, and therefore the economic … growth cost of, taxation and government expenditures. On the negative side, legitimacy may make voters less prone to acquire …

social trust levels are able to develop larger government sectors without harming the economy, and (ii) that countries with …The literature on the relationship between the size of government and economic growth is full of seemingly … approach—of limiting the focus to studies of the relationship in rich countries, measuring government size as total taxes or …

government size has not been detrimental to growth for OECD countries during the 1970 to 2001 period, and that endogenous growth …

We study the effect of political polarization on government spending and redistribution using the dispersion of self … government consumption. The relationship between political polarization and the size of government is stronger in democratic …

290 Swedish municipalities in 2007 to investigate the effects of government size on corruption. We construct several … level data to estimate the effect of local government resources on corruption. In cross-sectional analysis, we find a robust … be particularly high when government resources are limited. …

's institutions ('rules of the game'). Two stylized institutional variants of market selection and one of government selection are …

Government firms and authorities often sell services in the free market via affiliated consulting firms (CFs). In this …

objectives of the municipality representatives and the central government's goals. Regarding programme eff ects, our econometric …