WHY DOES GOVERNMENT GROW? THE SOURCES OF GOVERNMENT GROWTH FROM PUBLIC CHOICE PERSPECTIVE

Year 2017, Volume: 9 Issue: 1, 148 - 160, 01.02.2017

Coskun Can Aktan

Abstract

Many empirical studies that examined the government spending concludes that the size
and scope of government has grown considerably since the beginning of the twentieth
century in most developed countries. If this is the fact, then we must ask and explore the
following questions: Why does government grow? What are the main sources of
government growth? What are the main reasons of the expansion of government? This
introductory paper aims to answer those and other questions regarding government
growth. The paper is mostly depend on public choice literature of government growth.

Keywords

government growth, size of government, expansion of government