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Are Changing Constituencies Driving Rising Polarization in the U.S. House of Representatives?
ISBN: 9780833088642
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / RAND Corporation
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Population Studies ; Statistics ; Political Science;

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.