Have voters embraced a bigger state?
Have voters embraced a bigger state?
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选民是否接受了一个更大的国家？
DOI：
10.1111/newe.12264
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发表时间：
2021
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通讯作者：
Curtice J
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作者：
Curtice J
新冠肺炎疫情已导致国家在经济中的角色急剧增加。在18个月的不同程度的封锁中，许多企业被迫关闭，对NHS和其他公共服务提出了沉重的要求，国家为近900万工人支付了工资，增加了为贫困劳动年龄人口提供的福利，并增加了公共服务支出。2020/21年度，政府支出占经济的一半以上，为和平时期的最高水平。但是，即使现在封锁结束了，政府也公布了税收和支出计划，这些计划意味着，公共支出占GDP的比例将超过自20世纪70年代以来的任何时候，尤其是由于医疗、社会保健和福利支出的增加。与此同时，税收将达到自上世纪50年代初以来的最高水平。尽管政府对2008-09年金融危机引发的经济和财政冲击的回应是控制公共支出，但这一次政府显然得出结论，政府需要发挥更积极的作用--希望这将使国家能够“重建得更好”。
The Covid-19 pandemic has occasioned a dramatic increase in the economic role of the state. During 18 months of varying degrees of lockdown that required many businesses to shut and made heavy demands on the NHS and other public services, the state paid the wages for nearly 9 million workers, increased welfare provision for the working age poor, and increased spending on public services. Government spending accounted for well over half of the economy in 2020/21, its highest ever level in peacetime. But even now that lockdown is over, the government has unveiled tax and spending plans that imply that public spending will account for a higher proportion of GDP than it has done on a sustained basis at any time since the 1970s, not least thanks to increased spending on health, social care and welfare. Meanwhile, the tax take will be at its highest since the early 1950s. Whereas the government's response to the economic and fiscal shock occasioned by the 2008–9 financial crash was to rein in public spending, this time it has apparently come to the conclusion that the state needs to play a more active role – in the hope that this will enable the country to 'build back better'.