Marketing Research is probably most widely known to the public through the activities of attractive young ladies who stop you in the streets to ask a whole series of apparently disconnected questions. How many cars do you run? When did you last beat your wife? Can you tell margarine from butter,...

Reviewing sources of information in the EEC in a short paper requires a certain facility for avoiding the very problems that cause the most difficulty in practice. This paper can only, therefore, be considered as a guide to the guides of sources of marketing information in the EEC. In finding...

Purpose The paper aims to explore whether different models of public sector audit exist in China without adhering to the goals and objectives of public sector audit systems in democratic jurisdictions. Design/methodology/approach The study is based on a single embedded case study involving...

Majority cycling and related social choice paradoxes are often thought to threaten the meaningfulness of democracy. But deliberation can prevent majority cycles - not by inducing unanimity, which is unrealistic, but by bringing preferences closer to single-peakedness. We present the first...

From 2002 comprehensive performance assessment (CPA) has been used by the Audit Commission to scrutinize service delivery in English local authorities across six service blocks: benefits; social care; environment; libraries and leisure; use of resources; education and housing. The authors examined...

International Trade and Political Institutions broadens the public choice theory of trade politics to allow for the study of ideas and institutions within a longer time horizon. The authors use theoretically rigorous historical analysis of international political economy and four important case...