Theoretical and Applied Economics
No. 11 / 2012 (576)
The economic analysis of bureaucracy and government growth
National School of Political Studies and Public Administration Studies
Diana IANCU
National School of Political Studies and Public Administration Studies
Abstract. In this paper we analyze the problem of government size and growth and its relation with the size of public bureaucracies. The paper is organized as following: first, we present some factual data which confirm government size and growth for the western democratic world; second, we analyze the theories which identify the causes of this phenomenon. In this line we use Halcombe’s (2005) taxonomy and shortly discuss, at first, the rational choice and path dependency theories of government growth. Further, we focus on budget maximization theories. This class of theories explains government growth and size by state’s internal factors, bureaucracy (in the case of Niskanen’s models) and bureaucracy and politicians (in the case of the Leviathan model). We conclude the paper by presenting the Armey curve and the hypothesis of state’s underdevelopment as applied to the problem of the Romanian public administration.
Keywords: government growth; public choice theory; bureaucracy; budget maximizing; Leviathan.
Contents
- Aspects regarding the analysis
of inflation evolution
Constantin ANGHELACHE
Vergil VOINEAGU
Gabriela-Victoria ANGHELACHE
Alexandru MANOLE
- A macroeconometric panel data analysis
of the shaping factors of labour emigration
within the European Union
Liana SON
Graţiela Georgiana NOJA
- Accounting’s shift to decision-based costing
Gary COKINS
Sorinel CĂPUŞNEANU
Sorin BRICIU
- The Anglo-Saxon model of employment
in the current economic context.
The case of United Kingdom
Mirela Ionela ACELEANU
- The economic analysis of bureaucracy
and government growth
Mihai UNGUREANU
Diana IANCU
- Correlating stock exchange indices
under both normal and financial crisis conditions
Gabriela-Victoria ANGHELACHE
Andreea NEGRU CIOBANU
- Improving public sector performance
by strenghtening the relationship
between audit and accounting
Adelina DUMITRESCU
- Corporate social responsibility,
a strategy to create and consolidate
sustainable businesses
Mariana Cristina GANESCU
- The political economy of women’s professional
basketball in the United States:
A structure-conduct-performance approach
Ariel ANTHONY
Steven B. CAUDILL
Franklin G. MIXON, Jr.
- Social cohesion – a post-crisis analysis
Alina Magdalena MANOLE