"state expansion" is correct and usable in written English.
It refers to the growth of a state's power or influence, such as through territorial acquisitions or economic and political influence. For example, "The US saw a period of state expansion after World War II."
However, within this continuity, an incremental movement from welfare state expansion to post-expansive welfare state reform policy may be identified [ 82- 84].
Instead, a host of other factors may drive state expansion.
"The remainder of this year will be very much focused on US state expansion and on the European expansion.
New York expects nearly one million people who are currently eligible for Medicaid under a state expansion to sign up under the federal legislation.
War has always been an engine of state expansion, especially so in the century of total war, when governments needed to mobilize their entire societies.
We combine these data with the nationally representative American Community Survey to estimate the effects of state expansion on SSI participation.
A simple mechanistic description of the unsteady-state expansion of liquid-fluidized beds.
In 2003, about 70percentt was unaware of enactment of the prescription drug entitlement, then the largest welfare-state expansion since Medicare (1965).
At an annual security conference here on the eve of NATO's seven-state expansion, Moscow's neo-imperialist defense minister threatened to back out of an agreement limiting the size of his armed forces on Russia's European front.
Quantification of erythroid progenitors indicated a steady-state expansion of erythroid burst-forming units programmed for β-minor globin synthesis and a hastening of their maturation to hemoglobin-synthesizing cells.
Obamacare offers cash to help pay for states' expansion of Medicaid to a broader swath of the poor.
