Published on June 26, 2020–Updated on June 26, 2020
Focus on Reasearch
Reputation versus the need for enemies
Why don't politicians solve undesirable problems? One reason is that politicians may be induced not to solve the problems in order to keep an electoral advantage. This article shows that, if the politicians’ career depends on the problems they can solve with competence, the reforms they will implement will result from the trade-off between reputation and the need to keep enemies alive.
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