Populism and Commitment: A Dynamic Analysis of Voter Rational Ignorance and Political Self-Selection

I am expanding the model presented in the paper Morelli, Nicolò, Roberti (2021) about populism and commitment. My contribution is extending this model in a dynamical setting in order to get two main results. The first one is to prove why it is rational for voters not to get informed about the true state of the world if they elected a populist politician, I call it rational ignorance. The second is to show that if populist policies are demanded, given an endogenous supply of politicians, only the low skill will self-select into the pool of possible candidates.