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An Exploratory Investigation Of Stakeholders' Perceptions Of Political Leaders' Behavior And Outcomes, Edward S. Piatt
An Exploratory Investigation Of Stakeholders' Perceptions Of Political Leaders' Behavior And Outcomes, Edward S. Piatt
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This was an exploratory and descriptive study on stakeholders’ perceptions of political leaders’ behavior and outcomes. A purposeful sample comprised of 471 respondents whom were highly engaged in the political process was conducted on five distinct stakeholder groups, consisting of government employees, elected officials, union-building trades, business professionals, and college students. Two emergent results were identified: political party affiliation was a major indicator of stakeholder differences, and the inversion of agency theory. Contributing factors of the inversion of agency theory whereby a political agent begins to acts as a principle have led the researcher to develop the Corrupt-Unethical Behavior (CUB) …