Government Reform: New Wave and the New Observation author：Fan Peng |
| link CASS Journal of Political Science (Bimonthly) No.4, 2009: |
| In the past 30 years, numerous countries and districts in the world claimed that have succeed in cutting down the government or making the state “shrink”. The empirical evidence from this paper shows that, however, the size of government in these countries or districts, if it is measured by the number of governmental personnel employed by the government or the fiscal expenditure by the government, did not shrink as they expected. Just as this paper points out, behind the increasing expansion of the size of government, most of the countries have been increasing their investment on social security, as well as the expenditures on social regulatory functions of the state. These facts imply that, for government reform, “shrinking” is not the ultimate goal, but rather what the government is doing is more important; the pattern is the key issue, but rather the efficacy of the government is more essential. Spending too much on the personnel is not the problems, but rather how many share spent for the people is even more emergent. |
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