caa a22 4500 475841239 CHVBK 20180406123902.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20000601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1005086519491 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1005086519491 Proportional Representation with Citizen Candidates [Elektronische Daten] [Alan Hamlin, Michael Hjortlund] We construct a simple model incorporating bothcitizen-candidates and proportional representation andinvestigate its properties in a basic case with auniform distribution of citizen ideal points and purepolicy motivations, and in further cases which allowof office rents and other distributions ofpreferences. The idea of citizen-candidates, developedby Osborne and Slivinski (1996), Besley and Coate(1997), endogenises the decision to stand as acandidate and allows explicit study of the number andtype of candidates as an equilibrium phenomenon. Theidea of proportional representation allows a moreflexible relationship between the pattern of votescast and the final policy outcome, and also providesa richer model of political representation. Ourdiscussion points to the widespread possibility ofequilibria involving non-median policy outcomes;provides insights into the relationship betweenproportional representation and the equilibrium numberof candidates; and also provides an explicit accountof the trade-off between candidate benefitsdistributed on a winner-take-all basis and those thatare mediated through proportional representation. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000 Hamlin Alan Department of Economics, University of Southampton, SO17 1BJ, Southampton, U.K. aut Hjortlund Michael Department of Economics, University of Aalborg, Denmark aut Public Choice Kluwer Academic Publishers 103/3-4(2000-06-01), 205-230 0048-5829 103:3-4<205 2000 103 11127 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005086519491 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005086519491 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Hamlin Alan Department of Economics, University of Southampton, SO17 1BJ, Southampton, U.K aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Hjortlund Michael Department of Economics, University of Aalborg, Denmark aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Public Choice Kluwer Academic Publishers 103/3-4(2000-06-01), 205-230 0048-5829 103:3-4<205 2000 103 11127 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer