Title

Coarsening Phenomena Of Metal Nanoparticles And The Influence Of The Support Pre-Treatment: Pt/Tio 2(110)

Keywords

Direct democracy; Median voter; Representative democracy; Revealed preference

Abstract

Representative democracies govern most locales in the US, making it difficult to compare performance relative to direct democracy. New England states, however, provide an opportunity to test both direct and representative democracy at the local level. This article uses revealed preference axioms to compare spending patterns in New England towns and cities against median voter hypothesis benchmarks. Contrary to previous evidence, we find no differences between direct and representative democracy. The results suggest that horizontal competition arising from local fragmentation minimize differences between direct and representative local government, providing support for wider applicability of median voter-based empirical models of local government behaviour in the US. © 2011 Taylor and Francis Group, LLC.

Publication Date

6-1-2012

Publication Title

Surface Science

Volume

606

Issue

18

Number of Pages

908-918

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.susc.2012.01.022

Socpus ID

84859163515 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84859163515

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