anti-corruption enforcement affect the expected quality of governance through candidate self-selection. We also show that …

, then politicians who are very competent on both issues will switch. If voters have superior information on a politician … than the other, the politicians are more likely to campaign on the more important issue. If politicians are able to … informed and better off, but has an ambiguous effect on politicians' utility. The model and the results may help understand …

---voters are pessimistic about common-interest opportunities, politicians behave in a purely partisan manner that shuts down voter …, with politicians engaging in strategically polarized and polarizing behavior which leads to pessimistic beliefs among …

shaping the quality of politicians from both the supply and demand sides of politics. The model highlights that the patterns …

some voters to abandon norms of reciprocity--thus accepting gifts from politicians but voting for their preferred candidate …

compels partisan politicians to choose positions more moderate than their most-preferred policies. Alternatively, if … politicians cannot overcome the inability to make binding pre-commitments to policies, the expected result is complete policy …