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This study investigates consumerism and consumer behaviour in Rivers State, Nigeria. To achieve its main purpose, three specific purposes and three research questions were posed. The study adopted descriptive research design. Questionnaire was used for data collection. The population of the study was made up of all consumers in the 23 local government areas of Rivers State which are estimated to be around 7,409,304 people, that is, 4,112,001 males and 3,297,303 females. Sample of 230 respondents were selected using convenient sampling technique. The instrument for data collection was tested for reliability using Cronbach alpha test to obtain a reliability index of 0.72. Data collected for the study were analysed using mean and standard deviation and grand mean score to answer the research questions. The demographic profiles of the respondents were analysed using percentage. The study revealed that information about consumers' rights were to a low extent accessed through consumers' association in Rivers State. This means that consumerism in Rivers State is low or relatively new. It also revealed that consumers' behaviour before purchase was to a low extent influence by their information about consumers' rights and their behaviour after purchase was based on gentleman reactions. Therefore, it was recommended among others that educated consumers especially from the academic settings should form associations for creating awareness of consumers' rights in Rivers State. It was also recommended that informed consumers must come together and form genuine movements aimed at championing their rights and instituting actions against unscrupulous marketers and businesses when the need arises. Article visualizations:

This essay looks at the low levels of trust in government within the American public. Through this lens, the essay examines how trust both limits and distorts modern policy making, how it has created new modes of policy implementation, and how these issues shape the nature of the American state.

After comparing the legal framework and the actual business performance of Taiwan's trade and investment with mainland China, the author discusses the impact of economic dependence on Taiwan's autonomous state actions. He explores the state's efforts to lead and impede the market motivations of private firms. (DÜI-Sen)

Budgeting has gone from being a cyclical event to an ongoing process with continuous data needs. This transformation has increased the need for states to have an information system to keep track of the data bases that support the budgetary process. This article discusses the creation of such a system in Connecticut.

THIS STUDY HAS PRESENTED AN EXPLANATORY ANALYSIS OF THE CORRELATES OF PROGRESSIVE TAXATION IN THE AMERICAN STATES, THE NALYSIS INDICATED THAT THE EDUCATIONAL LEVEL OF THE CITIZENRY, ELECTORAL TURNOUT, PARTY COMPETITION, LEGISLATIVE GUBERNATORIAL TENURE POTENTIAL, EXTENT OF CIVIL SERVICE COVERAGE, AND POLICY INNOVATIVENESS WERE POSITIVELY RELATED TO RELIANCE UPON PROGRESSIVE TAXATION.

Focusing exclusively on the functional rather than the territorial level, this book reveals that the reshaping of the state in western Europe involves different policies across Europe and conflicting tendencies in the impact of the various reform programmes. Whilst the state may be in retreat in some respects, its activity may be increasing in others. And nowhere, not even in Britain, has its key decision-making role been seriously undermined.