Grossmann, Volker 2006 This note provides a simple political economy model which captures the trade-off of political parties between catering to their "core" constituency (partisans), and appealing to middle-of-the-road voters, who are not intrinsically attached to a party. The analysis reconciles seemingly ideology-motivated behavior of political parties with vote-maximization. application/pdf https://folia.unifr.ch/global/documents/323694 https://folia.unifr.ch/documents/323694/files/on_the_ideology_motive_in_politica_leconomy_models.pdf eng info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess License undefined International journal of business and economics. - 2006, vol. 5, p. 75-82 Ideological polarization Partisan constituency Political parties info:eu-repo/classification/udc/33 On the Ideology Motive in Political Economy Models http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501