What do principal agent dilemmas teach us about government behavior and the relationship of executive agencies to government

Government can act however they want without true consent from their people as they are representatives acting on behalf of us.

Explanation:

The principal-agent problem is the conflict that happens between principals and agents when they have difffering interests on certain matter. This conflict arises when government officials are rather to act on their own interests or on behalf of the interests of people, who play the role of principals, as agents.

Such dilemma of principal-agent teaches us that government can act however they want without consenting the people, on whose behalf they serve as agents. They can do whatever they want without asking people whose representatives they are.