Our model considers a majority election between two candidates—an ideologue committed to a fixed policy and an idealist who implements the ex post choice of the majority. Voters are aware that their individual rankings of policies may change after the election according to common or...

In this paper we propose an electoral model that studies the interaction between the distribution of voters ideal policies and the success of dynastic politicians. Electoral success of politicians depends on their ability to implement better policies for the voters because campaign promises are...

We prove a negative result in repeated games which shows that a sizable part of the set of feasible individually rational payoffs can never be supported by strategies that are at all robust to players' discount factors. We find the cutoff defining this region and interpret it as a limit on the...