Ideological Segregation: Partisanship, Heterogeneity, and Polarization in the United States

<p>I develop and justify a measure of polarization based on pairwise differences between and within groups, which improves on previous approaches in its ability to account for multiple dimensions and an arbitrary number of partitions. I apply this measure to a roll-call based ideological mappi...

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Main Author: Sparks, David Bruce
Other Authors: Aldrich, John H
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10161/5587