with the way democracy works) influences how a certain government size affects growth. On the positive side, a legitimate …While previous research documents a negative relationship between government size and economic growth, suggesting an … economic cost of big government, a given government size generally affects growth differently in different countries. As a …

. Our results indicate that while reforms of government size are not robustly related to satisfaction with democracy … reforms and even be less satisfied with democracy as such. We test this hypothesis empirically, using panel data from 30 … European countries in the period 1993-2015. The dependent variable is the average satisfaction with democracy, while the reform …

. Our results indicate that while reforms of government size are not robustly related to satisfaction with democracy … reforms and even be less satisfied with democracy as such. We test this hypothesis empirically, using panel data from 30 … European countries in the period 1993–2015. The dependent variable is the average satisfaction with democracy, while the reform …

Most studies find that larger government is associated with slower long-run growth. However, which elements of … government intervention drive the result and if the conclusion applies to all political regimes remains an open question, which …

growth, as government size and growth are found to be negatively associated in several recent studies. We note that the …