In 1974 Britain elected a Labour government pledged to expand public spending significantly. Labour followed its … examination of the political thinking within the 1970s Labour Party suggests that autonomous ideological changes were the most …

government. Most federal programs are unconstitutional, unnecessary, actively damaging, or properly the responsibility of state … complex array of 716 grant programs disgorges more than $400 billion annually to state and local governments, which become …

were modest, and large swathes of state activity were barely touched. Britain will remain a heavily regulated, high …-tax, high-spend economy. Instead of totally reviewing the functions of the state and how the government should achieve its … examine the role of the state in key areas and find that current policies are extremely inefficient, imposing high costs but …

state and, secondly, the economic consequences of democratization. With respect to the first, we find that Portugal …