By Sean M. Theriault
The political events in Congress are as polarized as they've been in a hundred years. This e-book examines greater than 30 years of congressional historical past to appreciate the way it is that the Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill became so divided. It unearths that steps have been severe for this improvement. First, the respective events' constituencies turned extra politically and ideologically aligned. moment, contributors, in flip, ceded extra strength to their get together leaders, who carried out strategies extra usually and with better end result. in reality, nearly the total upward thrust in get together polarization may be accounted for within the expanding frequency of and polarization on tactics used throughout the legislative technique.
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So, too, were the congresses before and after it. In fact, according to the DWNOMINATE scores, the first decade of the twentieth century was the most polarized in post-Reconstruction American politics. 2, I could end this book in the second chapter by declaring that, in fact, the contemporary Congress was not polarized, at least not in comparison to its predecessors. The picture that does emerge from the past 100 in between these bookend congresses shows first a very gradual convergence followed by a more marked divergence between the political parties in Congress.
For example, if a state has two liberal Democratic members that both have ideology scores of −1, its polarization score is 1, which is the same as a state with one liberal Democrat (with a −1 score) and one conservative Republican (with a score of 1). As such, these scores should be interpreted in light of how they polarize the chambers and not as a degree of contentiousness within state delegations. 3. For the record, Delaware, Hawaii, Maine, Montana, and Rhode Island had less polarization than Maryland and Nevada and Vermont had more polarization than North Carolina.
V. The Mechanisms Underlying Polarization This section analyzes the divergence between the parties by exploring the underlying dynamics that have led to the increased polarization. 4. Over the past 30-plus years, long-serving members have become more ideological over the course of their careers, and new, more ideological members are replacing their more moderate predecessors. Two vignettes illustrate the micro-level mechanisms of polarization. First, in 1976, Gale McGee, Chairman of the Post Office and Civil Service Committee, sought a fourth term for his Wyoming Senate seat.
