Power Corrupts, but can office enoble?

Brennan, H Geoffrey; Pettit, Philip

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Power Corrupts, but can office enoble?

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2002

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Brennan, H Geoffrey

Pettit, Philip

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Helbing & Lichtenhahn Verlag

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This paper investigates the effects of increased power associated with higher office on the quality of agent performance, within the context of a model in which agents care about what others think of them. They care that is about the esteem they enjoy. The object is to conduct a simple comparative static exercise in the 'economy of esteem', isolating the various dimensions of the relation between office held and esteem-related incentives to perform in a more estimable way.

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Keywords: corruption; theoretical study

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http://hdl.handle.net/1885/74359

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