Despite America’s traditional model of bipartisan cooperation, the US is more politically polarized than ever before. In areas of close party competition, we might expect Democrats and Republicans to search for areas of agreement to work collectively on, given that neither has an outstanding mandate. As Kelsey Hinchliffe and Frances Lee find, however, the opposite is true – borne out of the threat of close elections, party polarization is greater in more electorally competitive states, and this results in less bipartisanship than we might expect
Political scientists, journalists, and astute political observers agree that American political part...
It is widely believed that the lack of bipartisanship between the executive and legislative branches...
Over the past few decades, there has been a considerable increase in the level of partisan conflict....
Elected officials in the United States appear to represent relatively extreme support coalitions rat...
The increasing partisanship and polarization present Congress has been subject to a great deal of st...
Recent Congresses have been marked by levels of political polarization between Democrats and Republi...
Perhaps now more than any other time in recent memory, the American political landscape appears to b...
With legislative gridlock at the national level, recent years have seen state legislatures take new ...
In recent months, much has been written about the level of political polarization in America, and th...
The literature on political polarization and bipartisanship is plentiful, but very few have specific...
One of, if not the, most important changes in American political life over the last 30 or so years h...
Over the last 30 years, as legislative party polarization has increased, bipartisan compromise has b...
Does partisan competition explain why some legislatures are more efficient at processing legislation...
Congress has been increasingly criticized as a broken, gridlocked, polarized, ineffective institutio...
As the government shutdown in October showed, the U.S. is currently in a period of deep political di...
Political scientists, journalists, and astute political observers agree that American political part...
It is widely believed that the lack of bipartisanship between the executive and legislative branches...
Over the past few decades, there has been a considerable increase in the level of partisan conflict....
Elected officials in the United States appear to represent relatively extreme support coalitions rat...
The increasing partisanship and polarization present Congress has been subject to a great deal of st...
Recent Congresses have been marked by levels of political polarization between Democrats and Republi...
Perhaps now more than any other time in recent memory, the American political landscape appears to b...
With legislative gridlock at the national level, recent years have seen state legislatures take new ...
In recent months, much has been written about the level of political polarization in America, and th...
The literature on political polarization and bipartisanship is plentiful, but very few have specific...
One of, if not the, most important changes in American political life over the last 30 or so years h...
Over the last 30 years, as legislative party polarization has increased, bipartisan compromise has b...
Does partisan competition explain why some legislatures are more efficient at processing legislation...
Congress has been increasingly criticized as a broken, gridlocked, polarized, ineffective institutio...
As the government shutdown in October showed, the U.S. is currently in a period of deep political di...
Political scientists, journalists, and astute political observers agree that American political part...
It is widely believed that the lack of bipartisanship between the executive and legislative branches...
Over the past few decades, there has been a considerable increase in the level of partisan conflict....
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