Socioeconomic Contexts of Government Expenditure Across OECD Countries: A Complementary Perspective From Trust and State–Business Relations

Taeyoung Yoo; Whasun Jho

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Socioeconomic Contexts of Government Expenditure Across OECD Countries: A Complementary Perspective From Trust and State–Business Relations

Taeyoung Yoo, Whasun Jho

Department of Political Science and International Studies

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In contrast to the literature which analyzes government size using contingent factors, this article proposes that socioeconomic traditions, such as trust and state–business relations (SBR), complement the explanations of government size in an economy. Using 29 Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) countries from 1995 to 2008, this study shows that a high level of trust is negatively related to government expenditure, whereas tight SBRs are positively related to it even under the decreasing trend of government expenditure. We suggest that attention should be paid to the societal contexts of an economy in addition to its contingent factors, when analyzing changes in political economic activities.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	122-150
Number of pages	29
Journal	Administration and Society
Volume	47
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/0095399714555754
Publication status	Published - 2015 Mar 14

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The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This work was supported by Hankuk University of Foreign Studies Research Fund of 2014 and by the National Research Foundation of Korea Grant funded by the Korean Government (NRF-2013S1A3A2053799).

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