Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/82455 
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Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
Sveriges Riksbank Working Paper Series No. 166
Publisher: 
Sveriges Riksbank, Stockholm
Abstract: 
In their pursuit of being elected, politicians might not provide their constituents with independent viewpoints, but just try to outguess popular opinion. Although rational voters see through such populism, candidates can not resist resorting to it when the spoils of office are too large. For an intermediate parameter range, both populism and its opposite, “candor”, can be sustained as equilibria. This means that the public’s trust or distrust in politicians may be self-fulfilling prophecies. Importantly, the more informed politicians are about public opinion, the more likely it is that populist behavior can be avoided.
Subjects: 
popular opinion
electoral competition
candidate motivation
pandering
political trust
JEL: 
D72
D82
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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