The Rise of Partisanship and Super-Cooperators in the U.S. House of Representatives
It is widely reported that partisanship in the United States Congress is at an historic high. Given that individuals are persuaded to follow party lines while having the opportunity and incentives to collaborate with members of the opposite party, our goal is to measure the extent to which legislato...
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| author | Andris, Clio Lee, David Hamilton, Marcus J. Martino, Mauro Gunning, Christian E. Selden, John Armistead |
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| author_facet | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Urban Studies and Planning Andris, Clio Lee, David Hamilton, Marcus J. Martino, Mauro Gunning, Christian E. Selden, John Armistead |
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| description | It is widely reported that partisanship in the United States Congress is at an historic high. Given that individuals are persuaded to follow party lines while having the opportunity and incentives to collaborate with members of the opposite party, our goal is to measure the extent to which legislators tend to form ideological relationships with members of the opposite party. We quantify the level of cooperation, or lack thereof, between Democrat and Republican Party members in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1949–2012. We define a network of over 5 million pairs of representatives, and compare the mutual agreement rates on legislative decisions between two distinct types of pairs: those from the same party and those formed of members from different parties. We find that despite short-term fluctuations, partisanship or non-cooperation in the U.S. Congress has been increasing exponentially for over 60 years with no sign of abating or reversing. Yet, a group of representatives continue to cooperate across party lines despite growing partisanship. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/971092022-09-26T09:44:33Z The Rise of Partisanship and Super-Cooperators in the U.S. House of Representatives Andris, Clio Lee, David Hamilton, Marcus J. Martino, Mauro Gunning, Christian E. Selden, John Armistead Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Urban Studies and Planning Massachusetts Institute of Technology. SENSEable City Laboratory Lee, David It is widely reported that partisanship in the United States Congress is at an historic high. Given that individuals are persuaded to follow party lines while having the opportunity and incentives to collaborate with members of the opposite party, our goal is to measure the extent to which legislators tend to form ideological relationships with members of the opposite party. We quantify the level of cooperation, or lack thereof, between Democrat and Republican Party members in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1949–2012. We define a network of over 5 million pairs of representatives, and compare the mutual agreement rates on legislative decisions between two distinct types of pairs: those from the same party and those formed of members from different parties. We find that despite short-term fluctuations, partisanship or non-cooperation in the U.S. Congress has been increasing exponentially for over 60 years with no sign of abating or reversing. Yet, a group of representatives continue to cooperate across party lines despite growing partisanship. 2015-05-29T13:25:20Z 2015-05-29T13:25:20Z 2015-04 2014-03 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 1932-6203 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/97109 Andris, Clio, David Lee, Marcus J. Hamilton, Mauro Martino, Christian E. Gunning, and John Armistead Selden. “The Rise of Partisanship and Super-Cooperators in the U.S. House of Representatives.” Edited by Rodrigo Huerta-Quintanilla. PLOS ONE 10, no. 4 (April 21, 2015): e0123507. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0447-8573 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0123507 PLOS ONE Creative Commons Attribution http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ application/pdf Public Library of Science Public Library of Science |
| spellingShingle | Andris, Clio Lee, David Hamilton, Marcus J. Martino, Mauro Gunning, Christian E. Selden, John Armistead The Rise of Partisanship and Super-Cooperators in the U.S. House of Representatives |
| title | The Rise of Partisanship and Super-Cooperators in the U.S. House of Representatives |
| title_full | The Rise of Partisanship and Super-Cooperators in the U.S. House of Representatives |
| title_fullStr | The Rise of Partisanship and Super-Cooperators in the U.S. House of Representatives |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Rise of Partisanship and Super-Cooperators in the U.S. House of Representatives |
| title_short | The Rise of Partisanship and Super-Cooperators in the U.S. House of Representatives |
| title_sort | rise of partisanship and super cooperators in the u s house of representatives |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/97109 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0447-8573 |
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