We present a theory of endogenous fiscal policy and growth. Fiscal policy -- debt, income tax, spending on local public … we call the shrinking government effect: public debt grows faster than GDP, provisions of public goods and infrastructure …

, indicating that most government insiders quickly wear out their welcome, and then drop once the minister is fully entrenched in …

Attempting to shed light on the optimal size of government, economists have analyzed planning problems that specify a … choice of a planner who knows the welfare achieved by each policy. This paper examines choice of size of government by a … a wide range of spending levels--thus, a society can rationalize having a small or large government. I conclude that to …

from Catalonia in order to analyse the relation between the state of the economy and the support for a sub-state government … macroeconomic competencies. We have also considered the evaluations of government performance on certain specific policies in order … to clarify and determine the factors that drive Catalan government support. The article considers the implications of the …

government (QoG) actually means at the conceptual level. Based on analyses of political theory, we propose a more coherent and …The recent growth in research on "good governance" and the quality of government institutions has been propelled by … specific definition of QoG: the impartiality of institutions that exercise government authority. We relate the idea of …

governments exhibit greater concern for aggregate welfare than others. This government behavior may itself be endogenously … determinants of the differences in government behavior across countries …

We study the degree of corruption in a hierarchical model of government. In particular, we explore the question of … whether adding a layer of government simply increases the total amount of corruption or generates an organizational efficiency … (via a principal-agent relationship between levels of government) that reduces the total amount of corruption. It is shown …