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As digital comic book consumption continues to rise in popularity, the comic book community appears conflicted over the effects that digital scans have on the meaning of collecting and reading comic books. Historically, comic ownership served as the locus of comic fan social capital; will digital scans hold the same cultural capital as printed books? And does postpurchased digital scan dissemination primarily hurt copyright holders through lost sales, or does it help through social promotion? Building on an analysis of fan attitudes toward digital comic book texts, we seek to account for the limitations of locality by surveying the attitudes of comic book store patrons concerning their attitudes toward physical and digital comic book texts.

Examines patterns and predictors of local government economic development in one state. Uses data from local governments and various statistical analyses to derive common dimensions of local government power and examine predictors of these dimensions. Results suggest that state policies on development strategies have to be developed and effectively exercised to increase the power of the local government in the multiple constituent network. (Abstract amended)

THIS STUDY WAS CONCERNED WITH THE FACIAL APPEARANCE OF CANDIDATES IN THE 1979 BRITISH GENERAL ELECTION. ONE OF ITS TWO AIMS WAS TO SEE IF THE FINDINGS OF BULL AND HAWKES (1982) WOULD BE REPLICATED IN MARGINAL CONSTITUENCIES. THIS PROVED TO BE THE CASE IN THAT THE FACES OF CANDIDATES THAT OBSERVERS (WHO DID NOT KNOW THEM) JUDGED TO BE SUPPORTERS OF THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY WERE RATED AS MORE INTELLIGENT, ATTRACTIVE, HONEST, AND OF HIGHER SOCIAL CLASS THAN WERE THE FACES OF CANDIDATES JUDGED TO BE FROM THE LABOUR PARTY. THE FINDINGS WERE UNINFLUENCED BY THE POLITICAL ALLEGIANCES OF THE OBSERVERS. THE SECOND AIM WAS TO SEE IF ANY OF THE RATINGS OF CANDIDATES' FACES WOULD RELATE TO THE ACTUAL NUMBER OF VOTES SUBSEQUENTLY CAST FOR THEM IN THE ELECTION. PERHAPS BECAUSE THE ELECTION RESULTS WERE FAR LESS MARGINAL THAN EXPERT OPINION HAD EXPECTED, IN THAT THERE WAS A VERY STRONG VOTE SWING TO THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY, NONE OF THE RATINGS RELATED SIGNIFICANTLY TO THE NUMBERS OF VOTES CAST.