Election
campaigns have sometimes been referred to as a vicious circle.
The term vicious circle or vicious cycle refers to a complex
chain of events which reinforce themselves through a feedback
loop. A chain of events in which the response to one difficulty
creates a new problem that aggravates the original difficulty.
During the feedback
loop each iteration of the cycle reinforces the previous one.
These cycles will continue in the direction of their momentum
until an external factor intervenes and breaks the cycle.
Incidentally, A virtuous circle has favorable
results, while a vicious circle has detrimental
results.