The ideal size for the state has always presented theoreticians of social politics with difficulties of definition and recent studies have tended to measure this concept as the percentage of public spending with relation to Gross National Product GNP.
El tamaño ideal del Estado siempre ha presentado dificultades de definición para los teóricos de la política social. Recientes estudios lo miden como el porcentaje del gasto público con respecto al producto interior bruto PIB.