The size of government consumption relative to national output is examined to see if it is optimal in five Gulf … marginal productivity of government consumption. The "Barro rule" states that government services are optimally provided when … the marginal product of government consumption is one. Regression tests are undertaken for each country, and then in …

composition of government spending to the political system. …

size of government tends to increase, predictably in an attempt of redistribution, or to buy out the electorate, so that … democracy becomes acceptable and "the only game in town". For that we use a sample of all nine South American young democracies … some countries, the evidence presented here is rather informative of what to expect in terms of government size during …

size of government (in terms of consumption, debt and share to GDP) tends to increase in an attempt to buy out the … electorate, so that democracy becomes acceptable and ?the only game in town?. Our sample includes nine Latin American countries … time, the size of government shows signs of reduction. …

characteristics of coalition government. …

community and, significantly, its own form of governance as the only example in United States of government by community … paper, we see what is called «citizen involvement» based on what New Public Service theory defines as government based in … the community. They are not reinventing government; they are creating new governance where citizens prefer to empower …