...Salla Simola; Jeremias Nieminen; Janne Tukiainen We use novel data to describe the evolution of left–right polarization in parliamentary speech in Finland during 1907–2018. Overall, polarization fluctuates a lot during the majority of the twentieth century. We find the highest peak in left–right...

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...Sara Chatfield; Jeffery A. Jenkins; Charles Stewart, III We examine the decline in congressional polarization that occurred during the 1920s, as party differences narrowed relative to the high levels that characterized the turn of the twentieth century — a period that has, until recently, been...