... re-use rights only Congress political parties ideological polarization It is nearly impossible to overstate the centrality of polarization in scholarship on contemporary American politics. Our understanding of elite polarization reflects the patterns in Figure 1 , which displays...

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.... W. Cox Licensed re-use rights only Elections electoral behavior voting behavior campaign finance political parties As widely noted, the congressional parties have polarized since the 1970s. The gap between the average ideology scores of the parties has widened (Jacobson, 2000 , p...

... the research process. Peter Aronow, John Bullock, David Mayhew, and Pia Raffler gave valuable feedback. © 2017 M. C. McGrath 2017 M. C. McGrath Licensed re-use rights only Political economy political psychology political parties political science Students of political behavior have long...

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