voters' capacity to identify and empower well-suited politicians. In our model, candidates are heterogeneous in two …

': that is, when voters have incentive to misreport their preferences, politicians/candidates have a corresponding incentive … to misreport/lie about their own positions and, thus, if politicians implement outcomes in public office that differ from … preferences) relative to the Nash equilibrium outcome when politicians cannot lie but voters can. In this model, cyclicality in …