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100 _aBrennan, Geoffrey
245 _aPower corrupts, but can office ennoble?
260 _c2002
300 _ap.157-78.
520 _aThis paper investigates the effects of increased power associated with higher office on the quality of agent performnce, 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. - Reproduced.
650 _aCorruption
700 _aPettit, Philip
773 _aKyklos
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999 _c52600
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