Question about relation between administrative spending and

[Taiyand]

Does administrative spending affect political freedom, or just integrity and corruption? If a nation had a high value budget with 10% of it devoted to the administration, and then kept cutting taxes until the original spending level dropped in half, would that nation see a fall in political freedom?

[Trivalve]

Does administrative spending affect political freedom, or just integrity and corruption? If a nation had a high value budget with 10% of it devoted to the administration, and then kept cutting taxes until the original spending level dropped in half, would that nation see a fall in political freedom?

I believe that sometimes it does. It depends on whether the spending limits or promotes what politicians can do. It also depends on whether it effects peoples influence over politics. I may be wrong though.

[Taiyand]

I know that the second choice on Issue #111 (the autonomy one) lowers political freedom while also decreasing administrative spending. But the fifth option on the capital city issue/241, which also might cut administrative spending, doesn't show on the issue website a reduction in political freedom, or any change for corruption.

I had a nation cut taxes in general with issue #24 (Budget Time: Accountants Excited). Admin spending dropped slightly as a share of spending, so it must have diminished. No change in political freedom, although the nation's spending may not have been high enough for the test to be valid.

It looks like it might be that issues which raise political freedom raise that freedom separately from their associated increase in admin spending.

Most political freedom raising choices also raise intelligence, rudeness, and admin spending/taxes. They also usually lower corruption and raise integrity.

I think that the corruption, integrity, and possibly intelligence and rudeness changes might be linked to an option's increase in admin spending. There seems to be a strong correlation between the tax increases on options in issues such as Electile Dysfunction and those stats. Some issues that barely raise taxes do raise political freedom a great deal, however.