Term Paper
According to Higss, is the growth of government continuous or does it occur fits and starts? What is Higgs’ explanation for this pattern of growth of government? Higss proposes that the growth of the government in the United States can be explained as a process of responding to crises. In this assertion, Higss specifically refers to the First World War, the Great Depression of the 1930s, and the Second World War among other major crises that have occurred in the history of the United States. In his reference to the crisis theory, Higss argues that each of these crises ...
