Populous communities often prefer more government involvement than less populous communities, but does community size … per se affect citizens' preferences for government? Endogeneity commonly prevents testing for causal effects because (i …) people can select into communities while (ii) government structures can affect community size (e.g., by en- or discouraging …

' preferences and the size of government. We devise a series of representative survey experiments in Germany that randomly provide …

The monopoly position of the public bureaucracy in providing public services allows government employees to acquire …