Decentralization and electoral swings

Decentralization and electoral accountability: Incentives, separation and voter welfare

Article history: Received 26 June 2008 Received in revised form 20 January 2009 Accepted 23 January 2009 Available online 4 February 2009 This paper provides a systematic analysis of fiscal decentralization on the quality of government by studying jointly its effects on electoral discipline and selection, in a settingwhere, realistically, voters only have limited information aboutfiscal policy ...

The Implications of Electoral Competition for Fiscal Decentralization and Subnational Autonomy in Mexico By

Swings and Roundabouts

Recognition of the continuing need for 'psychiatric social work' within the context of generically based social services departments.

Dynein Swings into Action

Motor proteins, such as dynein, use chemical energy from ATP hydrolysis to move along the cytoskeleton. Roberts et al. (2009) now describe the arrangement of subdomains in the motor domain of dynein and propose a model for how these regions function together in force generation.

Introducing Mood Swings

Mood Swings is introduced: an affective interactive art installation that interprets and visualizes affect expressed by a person. Founded on the integration of a color model and a framework for affective movements, Mood Swings recognizes affective movement characteristics, processes these, and displays a color that matches the expressed emotion. Mood Swings was successfully evaluated by 36 muse...