Wagner's Law - A Spurious Relationship?

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The size and composition of government expenditure (2007, background): “Hence the hypothesized association between electoral rules and the pattern of public expenditure depends on the presumed targetability of various types of government spending. Persson and Tabellini (1999) test their hypotheses on both electoral systems and legislative structure using cross-country d”
Panel data, cointegration, causality and Wagner's law : empirical evidence from Chinese provinces (2006, background): “1999); Japan (Nomura, 1995); Sweden (Henrekson, 1993); the United States (see eg.”
Trust, welfare states and income equality: Sorting out the causality (2014, background): “Finally, economic development itself likely affects redistribution and the size of the public sector throughWagner effects and Baumol's cost disease (Wagner, 1893; Baumol and Bowen, 1966; Henrekson, 1993; Congleton et al., 2013).”