Since the 1990s, Congress has become increasingly polarized and gridlocked. The driver behind this is the replacement of moderate legislators with more ideologically extreme legislators, particularly among Republicans. This "explains virtually all of the recent growth in partisan polarization."
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#PartisanPolarization #PoliticalGridlock #ModerateVsExtreme #CongressionalChanges #IdeologicalShift
Nowpublishers
now publishers - Parsing Party Polarization in Congress
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US political and social polarization has increased by 64% since 1988, with nearly all of the rise occurring after 2008, as the financial crisis, the rise of social media, and an asymmetric ideological shift—particularly on the left—coincided to widen divisions, according to a long-term study.
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#USPolarization #PoliticalDivide #SocialMediaImpact #GreatRecession #IdeologicalShift
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#USPolarization #PoliticalDivide #SocialMediaImpact #GreatRecession #IdeologicalShift
The Royal Society
A new measure of issue polarization using k-means clustering: US trends 1988–2024 and predictors of polarization across the world
Abstract. Political issue polarization worries scholars and the public alike. To understand what drives political issue polarization, longitudinal analyses
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