This article considers the relationship between centralised, exogenous institutions and the embedded, endogenous institutions of rural governance in Europe through an examination of the evaluation procedures of the European LEADER programme. LEADER is presented in the literature as progressive...

This article considers the relationship between centralised, exogenous institutions and the embedded, endogenous institutions of rural governance in Europe through an examination of the evaluation procedures of the European LEADER programme. LEADER is presented in the literature as progressive...

Primarily following Bridges-Mehta (1995) and Herden-Pallack (2002), this paper is a discussion of the equivalent re-formalizations of the utility representation problem. Our contribution to this widely discussed theory of economic literature is that we consider the representation theorem as a...