In 1990, Budge and Hofferbert (B&H) claimed that they had found solid evidence that party platforms cause U.S. budgetary priorities, and thus concluded that mandate theory applies in the United States as strongly as it does elsewhere. The implications of this stunning conclusion would mean that virtually every observer of the American party system in this century has been wrong. King and Laver ...

The sociology of organizations has ignored the evolution of and variation in enterprise rules, budget sys. terns and accounting rules. This paper takes a broad approach to accounting rules, arguing that they are related to large variations in enterprise forms and in industry problen~s. The rule making and enforcement apparatus of modern society is described. Both external and internal aspects o...

Deliberative models have dominated democratic theory far the past ten years. This chapter argues that, in some prominent versions at least these models are funda­ mentally fla'wed. Criticism of the deliberative model is not new; ho\vever, few critics challenge the most basic assumptions of that model. preferring to argue on the ground set out by the deliberationists themselves. 1',,1y aim is to...

BACKGROUND Many studies have been developed to characterize the mechanical behavior of the intervertebral disc specifically for the lumbar spine and there have been limited studies done on the cervical spine with the goal to evaluate the strength of the cervical spine under compression without any information on the bulging of the intervertebral discs. The goal of the current study is to examin...

Hv GRACE SHIPPENS State budge) reductions coupled with .1 lull in the racehorse industry have lefl the Veterinar) School in icrioua financial trouble, accordl Budget Directoi i ilen Stinc Oovernoi William I atey announced in lanuary thai the state mas im pose .1 low ceiling on appropriations uii private institutions meaning thai the i diversity's funding would noi increase I inproposed budget r...

Most microorganisms maintain strict control of nutrient assimilation pathways to ensure that they preferentially use compounds that generate the most energy or are most efficiently catabolized. In doing so, they avoid potentially inefficient conflicts between parallel catabolic and metabolic pathways. The regulation of carbon source utilization in a wide array of bacterial and fungal species in...

Purpose: Pradhan Mantri MUDRA Yojana(PMMY) will offer loans up to 10 lakh Non- Corporate, Non-farm micro-enterprises generate income and employment in manufacturing services, retail MSME, SMEs Agriculture related occupations like beekeeping, horticulture, pisciculture, Poultry, agro-industries, diary, agriclinics, agribusiness, add the national wealth with support of SIDBI, NABARD providing wor...

0 Introduction The phenomenon of polarity sensitivity is not, in general, very well understood. Why is it that certain words and idioms have the peculiar property of occurring only in negative, interrogative or conditional contexts? It is intuitively clear that negative polarity items (NPIs) are not arbitrarily distributed over the lexicon. A field-worker analyzing an unknown language would pro...