possible explanation of this differential effect, we explore whether perceived government legitimacy (measured by satisfaction … government may "get away" with being big since legitimacy can affect people's behavioral response to, and therefore the economic … growth cost of, taxation and government expenditures. On the negative side, legitimacy may make voters less prone to acquire …

Conventional wisdom maintains that the Chinese Communist Party is upheld by performance-based legitimacy. Yet what … about procedural legitimacy? Analyzing national survey data on China, this study finds that governance procedures affect the … legitimacy of subnational levels of governing, if not necessarily that of the national level. Good governance contributes to …

The coevolution of trust in government alongside the growth of government is an aspect of research on the latter topic … view of government growth and incorporate the role of trust in government. The negative association of the growth in … government with trust in government is consistent with a political economy model of government growth, rent seeking …

Legitimacy in the time of COVID-19 can be understood as the ability of leaders to win compliance with new public health … received a windfall of legitimacy. On the one hand, this legitimacy windfall can be wasted, or worse, used to intensify … divisive politics, grab power, and install government at the commanding heights of the economy and society, even after the …

Legitimacy in the time of COVID-19 can be understood as the ability of leaders to win compliance with new public health … received a windfall of legitimacy. On the one hand, this legitimacy windfall can be wasted, or worse, used to intensify … divisive politics, grab power, and install government at the commanding heights of the economy and society, even after the …

This paper investigates the relationship between the size of government and economic growth in OECD countries in 1960 …?2000. The underlying idea is that government expenditures on public goods basically have a positive effect on growth, but this … growth effect tends to decline or even reverse when government is overdoing, e.g. by increasing expenditures in such a way …