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Mar 10, 2022 · It’s become commonplace among observers of U.S. politics to decry partisan polarization in Congress. Indeed, a Pew Research Center analysis finds that, on average, Democrats and Republicans are farther apart ideologically today than at any time in the past 50 years.
- Drew Desilver
Nov 6, 2023 · The current U.S. Congress is on track to be the most polarized ever, according to a running analysis at voteview.com, a tool widely used by political scientists that sorts lawmakers based on...
Jul 2, 2024 · In a 2021 study in the Journal of Politics, researchers found that when a person in one political party was asked what they think of someone in the other party, their answer was pretty negative....
Mar 17, 2022 · Why it matters: The growing polarization makes it even more difficult for Congress to find bipartisan compromise for important legislation. Both parties have had to deal with internal fracturing, but the GOP has moved further right than Democrats have moved left, the Pew analysis shows.
- Stef W. Kight
Nov 6, 2023 · WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The current U.S. Congress is on track to be the most polarized ever, according to a running analysis at , a tool widely used by political scientists that sorts...
Sep 5, 2023 · In fact, survey findings from the Democracy Fund Voter Study Group found that Americans who held the least polarized ideological beliefs were actually the voting cohort least in favor of democracy and most supportive of a “strong leader” who did not need to bother with Congress or elections.
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Jan 21, 2020 · In the study, Shapiro and colleagues present the first ever multi-nation evidence on long-term trends in “affective polarization” — a phenomenon in which citizens feel more negatively toward other political parties than toward their own.