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Congressional Oversight Overlooked: Police Patrols versus Fire Alarms

Mathew D. McCubbins; Thomas Schwartz · American Journal of Political Science 28(1), 165–179 · 1984

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Type: Article
Author: Mathew D. McCubbins; Thomas Schwartz
Identifier: DOI 10.2307/2110792
Accessed: 2026-09-01

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DisputedPersson, Rothstein and Teorell argued, from interviews in Kenya and Uganda, that anti-corruption reforms based on principal–agent assumptions fail in systemically corrupt settings because corruption there resembles a collective action problem without non-corruptible principals.