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Principled Agents? The Political Economy of Good Government

Timothy Besley · Oxford University Press · 2006

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Book
Author
Timothy Besley
Identifier
DOI 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199283910.001.0001
Accessed
2026-09-01
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ISBN 9780199283910.

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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.