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The Polarization of the Congressional Parties



Updated 21 March 2015

Recent Papers

Graphs

the level of political polarization

liberal-moderate-conservative

Voting on race related issues now largely takes place along the liberal-conservative dimension

Polarization in the House and Senate is now at the highest level since the end of Reconstruction.

1. Congress Number 2. First Year of the Congress 3. Difference in Party Means - first dimension 4. Moderates 5. Percentage of moderate Democrats 6. Percentage of moderate Republicans 7. Overlap 8. Percentage of overlapping Democrats 9. Percentage of overlapping Republicans 10. Chamber Mean - first dimension 11. Chamber Mean - second dimension 12. Democratic Party Mean - first dimension 13. Democratic Party Mean - second dimension 14. Republican Party Mean - first dimension 15. Republican Party Mean - second dimension 16. Northern Democrat Mean - first dimension 17. Northern Democrat Mean - second dimension 18. Southern Democrat Mean - first dimension 19. Southern Democrat Mean - second dimension