Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Reputation and Trust -- 3. Reputation and Good Public Governance -- 4. Entities, Roles, and Functions of Reputation-Based Governance -- 5. Computing Measures of Reputation -- 6. The Production of Statistical Information and the Analysis of...

I provide a description of what I call the "bureaucratic reputation game", by defining the incentives of the relevant actors, their likely preferences, their available strategies, and how the playing out of such strategies produces organizational outputs. The main conclusions are twofold. First,...