vox: The growth of partisan polarization has transformed US politics in recent decades, and the effe
vox: The growth of partisan polarization has transformed US politics in recent decades, and the effects are especially visible in Congress. Now a new paper in PLOS One (and flagged byWonkblog’s Chris Ingraham) demonstrates this transformation in a particularly cool way.Six researchers — Clio Andris, David Lee, Marcus Hamilton, Mauro Martino, Christian Gunning, and John Armistead Selden — have created a visualization of how likely the House of Representatives’ Democrats (in blue) and Republicans (in red) are to vote with their own party, or to cross party lines. The change over the past six decades is remarkable. Chart: Andris, Lee, Hamilton, Martino, Gunning, and Selden, “The Rise of Partisanship and Super-Cooperators in the U.S. House of Representatives.” -- source link