Are Changing Constituencies Driving Rising Polarization in the U.S. House of Representatives?

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Title: Are Changing Constituencies Driving Rising Polarization in the U.S. House of Representatives?
Description: This report addresses two questions: first, whether the spatial distribution of the American electorate has become more geographically clustered over the last 40 years with respect to party voting and socioeconomic attributes; and second, whether this clustering process has contributed to rising polarization in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Authors: Jesse Sussell, James A. Thomson
Resource Type: eBook.
Subjects: Legislators--United States
Categories: POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, MATHEMATICS / Probability & Statistics / Regression Analysis, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Demography
Database: eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
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Abstract:This report addresses two questions: first, whether the spatial distribution of the American electorate has become more geographically clustered over the last 40 years with respect to party voting and socioeconomic attributes; and second, whether this clustering process has contributed to rising polarization in the U.S. House of Representatives.
ISBN:9780833088642