February, 2019
Sounding the Alarm
The Political Economy of Whistleblowing in the US Security State
Christopher Coyne
Associate Director, F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics
Nathan Goodman
PhD Fellow
Abigail Hall
Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Tampa
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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.