This paper develops a game theoretic model in which S incumbent legislators simultaneously allocate effort between producing non-excludable public goods, targeting local goods to particular geographic constituencies, and engaging in rent-seeking. The game's equilibria are determined by both the...

Building on past research, this paper develops a game theoretic model to study the provision of public goods under Closed- and Open-List Proportional Representation. The core results suggest that legislators will provide voters with higher levels of public goods in OLPR than in CLPR systems....