State in brief about the term - Reputations

Reputations can be defined as the actions an agent and expected to take. If he takes it up, he establishes his reputation or otherwise. In fact, reputation works mainly in dynamic settings, actions promised and carried out in past establishes reputation of a policy maker which determines the expectation voters would have in their minds while voting besides other things we have already studied earlier. This expectation of voters decides the opportunities the policy maker would have in future. It may involve multiple equilibria.