THE AGENCY OF POLITICS AND SCIENCE
研究政客与研究者之间的委托代理关系，分析信息对称与不对称下政客如何与研究者签约，并揭示选民与政客之间的利益冲突。
We study a principal‐agent relationship between a politician and a researcher that captures stylized facts regarding the involvement of politics into scientific research. The politician has some ideal policy that he would like to implement, but needs to contract with a researcher to choose a policy that is supported by scientific advice. We study the implemented contracts under symmetric and under asymmetric information about the researcher's ability and concern for reputation, and discuss with which types of researchers the politician will contract. We identify several conflicts between the interests of voters and those of the politician.