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Why Do Governments Find It So Hard To Control Public Expenditure?


Since the 1970's rising public expenditure has become a politically
salient issue, with the focus being on the difficulties experienced in trying to
control it. In order to answer a question concerning why governments find it
hard to control public expenditure it is first necessary to look at the reasons
for the growth in public spending. There are three approaches which attempt to
give reasons for growing public expenditure which I intend to scrutinise, these
are, the societal system approach, the political system approach and the
governmental system approach. An evaluation of these approaches should in turn
shed light as to why governments find rising public expenditure hard to control.
Following this approach which gives a wide outlook on the problems facing
governments in controlling public expenditure, I will look at the post 1979
conservative government as it in particular targeted controlling expenditure......

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