Reputation and Accountability in Repeated Elections

This paper studies a model of in\u85nitely repeated elections in which vot-ers try to select competent politicians and provide them with incentives to exert costly e¤ort. Markov perfect equilibria are proven to be incapable of incentivising e¤ort. However, a class of equilibria satisfying a weaker version of Markov perfection, as well as weak renegotiation-proofness, i