The Rise of Partisanship and Super-Cooperators in the U.S. House of Representatives by Andris, Clio, Lee, David, Hamilton, Marcus J., Martino, Mauro, Gunning, Christian E., Selden, John Armistead

“…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. …”
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