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loyalty-competence trade-off: a standalone construct

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Comparative politics

the dilemma that rulers face in choosing subordinates, since more competent agents are also better able and more tempted to betray the ruler.

In comparative politics, loyalty-competence trade-off refers to the dilemma that rulers face in choosing subordinates, since more competent agents are also better able and more tempted to betray the ruler. This meaning comes from Egorov (2011) in Journal of the European Economic Association.[1]

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Egorov, G., & Sonin, K. (2011). Dictators and Their Viziers: Endogenizing the Loyalty-competence Trade-off. Journal of the European Economic Association, 9(5), 903-930. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1542-4774.2011.01033.x

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