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Essays on Government Growth

Part of the Studies in Public Choice Book Series (volume 40)

Editors: Hall, Joshua; Khoo, Bryan

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-55081-3

ISBN: 978-3-030-55080-6

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Jul 30, 2020

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Accounting for the Growth of Government

Becker, Gary S.; Mulligan, Casey B.

Pages: 1 –40

[Why has government grown in so many countries during the twentieth century? We present a simple model of political competition and show how different sources of the growth of government have different effects on the amount and structure of taxes, spending, and regulatory programs undertaken by...
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Government Growth

Tullock, Gordon

Pages: 41 –50

[Explanations for the growth of the government that imply that it always grows are obviously destroyed by the early period histories. Something must have happened to change the way in which we respond to our governments or our governments respond to us. I have offered Bismarckism as a possible...
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Does Technology Drive the Growth of Government?

Cowen, Tyler

Pages: 51 –65

[I consider technology as a partial explanation of the historical shift towards big government. The late nineteenth century and early twentieth century saw a fundamental change in the production technology for large government, and for large institutions more generally. Large institutional...
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High Tax Compliance Results in Smaller Government

McKee, Michael

Pages: 67 –73

[High tax compliance will reduce rather than facilitate the growth of government spending. There are several reasons for this. First, tax evasion reduces the effective price of public programs thus increasing the quantity demanded. Second, tax evasion is not uniform across income classes and the...
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Income Tax Evasion Prior to Withholding

Holcombe, Randall G.; Gmeiner, Robert J.

Pages: 75 –95

[World War II brought with it a substantial increase in federal income tax rates, and introduced income tax withholding for wage income. Rates increased prior to withholding, so an examination of tax payments paid prior to and subsequent to withholding can offer some insight into the degree to...
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The Size and Composition of Government Spending in Multi-Party Systems

Scartascini, Carlos G.; Crain, W. Mark

Pages: 97 –127

[This paper explores the structure of party competition across democratic nations and its impact on the size and composition of government spending. The analytical framework expands on the norm of universalism, applies it to multi-party legislatures, and develops several propositions. We examine...
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A Congressional Theory of the Size of Government

Ragan, Robi; Khurana, Sachin

Pages: 129 –143

[In this paper, we examine the implications of the party cartel model of congressional policy making on the level of redistributional social welfare spending in the United States. The party cartel model predicts an inverse relationship between the level of spending on social welfare programs and...
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Trade and the Size of Government Revisited

Haislip, Olga

Pages: 145 –165

[I revisit the relationship between trade and government expenditures in an attempt to extend the work of Rodrik (J Polit Econ 106(5):997–1032, 1998). Several different tests are conducted. The first is a simple replication of Rodrik’s benchmark model on an extended dataset. The results here are...

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