@unpublished{mpra1018, title = {Political Bad Reputation}, month = {August}, year = {2006}, note = {Unpublished}, url = {https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/1018/}, abstract = {The goal of this paper is to explore how the connection between political ideology and voters' preferences is able to generate different equilibria in a yardstick competition game, where good incumbents are forced to create a bad reputation or, in other words, to mimic the bad incumbents' behavior in order to win the elections in a two-candidate political competition.}, author = {Canegrati, Emanuele} }