Unprincipled Principals: Co‐opted Bureaucrats and Corruption in Ghana
@article{Brierley2020UnprincipledPC, title={Unprincipled Principals: Co‐opted Bureaucrats and Corruption in Ghana}, author={Sarah Brierley}, journal={American Journal of Political Science}, year={2020}, volume={64}, pages={209-222} }
In theory, granting politicians tools to oversee bureaucrats can reduce administrative malfeasance. In contrast, I argue that the political control of bureaucrats can increase corruption when politicians need money to fund election campaigns and face limited institutional constraints. In such contexts, politicians can leverage their discretionary powers to incentivize bureaucrats to extract rents from the state on politicians’ behalf. Using data from an original survey of bureaucrats (N=864…
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