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<div>{{Short description|Pejorative term for a perceived overbearing government or public sector}}<br />
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'''Big government''' is a term that refers to a [[government]] or [[public sector]] that is considered excessively large or unconstitutionally involved in certain areas of [[public policy]] or the [[private sector]].<br />
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The term may also be used specifically concerning government policies that attempt to regulate private or personal matters such as private [[Human sexuality#Sexual behavior|sexual behavior]] or individual [[Healthy diet#Unhealthy diets|food choices]]<ref>{{cite news|last=Grynbaum|first=Michael|title=New York Plans to Ban Sale of Big Sizes of Sugary Drinks|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/31/nyregion/bloomberg-plans-a-ban-on-large-sugared-drinks.html?_r=1|access-date=2 June 2012|newspaper=New York Times|date=31 May 2012}}</ref> – similar to the British term '[[nanny state]]'. The term has also been used in the context of the United States to define a dominant [[Federal government of the United States|federal government]] that seeks to control the authority of local [[institution]]s – an example being the overriding of state authority in favor of federal [[legislation]].<ref>{{cite web|title=The meaning of big government|url=http://www.renewamerica.com/analysis/garry/110614|publisher=Renew America|access-date=26 April 2012|author=Patrick Garry|date=14 June 2011}}</ref><br />
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== Definition ==<br />
Big government is primarily defined by its size, measured by the budget or number of employees, either in absolute terms or relative to the national economy.<ref>Micheletti, M. (2000), End of Big Government: Is It Happening in the Nordic Countries?. Governance, 13: 265–278. {{doi|10.1111/0952-1895.00134}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Does Big Government Hurt Economic Growth|url=http://www.csbsju.edu/Documents/Clemens%20Lecture/lecture/ClemensLect04.pdf|publisher=St. Johns University|access-date=26 April 2012|author=Peter Lindhert|year=2004}}</ref><br />
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== See also ==<br />
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* [[Corporate welfare]]<br />
* [[Limited government]]<br />
* [[Lemon socialism]]<br />
* [[Managerial state]]<br />
* [[Night-watchman state]]<br />
* [[Libertarian conservatism|Small government]]<br />
* [[Social engineering (political science)]]<br />
* [[Socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor]]<br />
* [[Statism]]<br />
* [[Too big to fail]]<br />
* [[Welfare state]]<br />
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== References ==<br />
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[[Category:Libertarian terms]]<br />
[[Category:Political ideologies]]<br />
[[Category:Political neologisms]]<br />
[[Category:Political terminology of the United States]]<br />
[[Category:Political pejoratives]]<br />
[[Category:Conservatism in the United States]]<br />
[[Category:Nationalism in the United States]]<br />
[[Category:Right-wing politics in the United States]]<br />
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