"Understanding United States Government Growth" develops and
tests alternative explanations of government growth since World War
II. It opens with an analysis of debate about the causes and
consequences of government growth, including the excessive
government view that the public sector has grown beyond the scope
demanded by citizens due to its own structural defects, and the
responsive interpretation that government has gown because it has
reacted appropriately to external public demands. The authors
review the major political and economic explanations for government
growth and criticize earlier empirical attempts to test these
explanations. In the second half of the book, they distinguish four
components of government growth: growth in the cost of government
and growth in the scope of government activities in three
domains--transfer payments, domestic purchases, and defense
purchases. Both responsive and excessive explanations of each of
these components of growth are developed and tested to allow an
evaluation of the validity of the two contrasting views about big
government.
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