Board #1 - Attention as a Budget Constraint: Optimal Metric Strength and the Politics of Measurement

• In Event: 70-304 - Poster Session: Comparative Political Institutions: Historic and Current Research

Brief Overview

We develop a multitask principal–agent model where attention is the binding constraint, showing how different metric strengths reshape attention budgets, generate Goodhart-style distortions, and affect which political goods remain protected.

Author

• Felix Tinio, Stevens Institute of Technology