"small government" fundamentally means "big industries".
When governing entities have limited money and power, they will need a lot of good will from the incumbents to have anything done at all.
When governing entities have limited money and power, they will need a lot of good will from the incumbents to have anything done at all.
On an empirical basis, you'll find extreme examples of all situations, from full-on dictatures to company owned land masses. Whether it holds or not has to do with the specific country and its situation.
In a very real way, ideologies don't feed people, and usually it will be the reality of the country that nurtures appropriate philosophies, not the other way round (e.g. Chinese "communism" wouldn't have happened anywhere else, and you can't apply it to other countries willy nilly either)
The USA is at 38%. That's pretty low compared to most EU countries (e.g. France or Italy are at 58%), even lower than Brazil or Japan. And Japan has no offensive military to throw money at.