According to Ballard Campbell, a growing conclusion among political scientists is that the electorate Question 19 options: is generally opposed to government's growth unless it has something to gain has learned to play a game of gaining more services and benefits from the government while passing the financial burden on to other parties acts more as consumers of public goods than as initiators of new policies. Voters assume a reactive posture, in which their most important role is to periodically reassert traditional ideological limits on the options available to policy makers weighs changes in government with the mandate under which government has historically operated