A reputational model of authority
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چکیده
The paper provides a model where authority relaionships are founded on reputation. The viability of authority is the result of subordinates’ free-riding on each other’s challenges, reducing the frequency of challenges, and making reputation worth defending. The party with authority secures subordinates’ compliance through the payment of rents to influence the extent of their failure to act collectively and exacerbate the free-rider problem they face. The model provides a framework to explain how the magnitude and form of these rents depend on the primitives of the environment and on the authority’s design of its reputation. Applications to employment relationships, dictatorships, and the notion of legitimacy are considered. © 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved. JEL classification: J41; L14
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