This chart, from a paper by political scientists Matt Grossmann and David A. Hopkins, shows that governance usually means bigger government, even when Republicans are in charge.
Source: http://matthewg.org/papers/policyredblue3.pdf
Further reading: "Why Democrats and Republicans don't understand each other" by Ezra Klein
http://www.vox.com/2014/9/15/6131919/democrats-and-republicans-really-are-different
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