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February 2019

Sounding the Alarm

The Political Economy of Whistleblowing in the US Security State

Christopher Coyne
Abigail R. Hall
Nathan Goodman

Originally published in Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy

What role do whistleblowers play in democratic politics? This paper answers this question by analyzing the political economy of whistleblowing within the democratic political insitutions. Democratic politics is charaterized by numerous principal-agent problems creating significant space for opportunism.

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