Polarization without Parties
Polarization without Parties
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没有政党的极化
DOI：
10.1177/1532440014564984
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发表时间：
2014
影响因子：
1.5
通讯作者：
Boris Shor
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作者：
S. Masket;Boris Shor
尽管无党派的历史由来已久，但内布拉斯加州的立法机构在过去十年里迅速两极分化。利用访谈和竞选财务记录，我们研究了现代独角兽中的政治，以调查无党派的两极分化。我们发现，新制定的任期限制为该州的政党创造了机会，以越来越多的党派方式招募和资助候选人。社交网络分析表明，竞选捐款的结构越来越多，政治精英越发不太可能跨越党派界限捐款。这些结果提供了一个令人信服的例子，说明各缔约方克服了旨在消除这些问题的机构。
Despite a long history of nonpartisanship, the Nebraska state legislature has polarized rapidly within the past decade. Using interviews and campaign finance records, we examine politics in the modern Unicam to investigate nonpartisan polarization. We find that newly instituted term limits created opportunities for the state’s political parties to recruit and finance candidates in an increasingly partisan fashion. Social network analysis suggests that there is a growing level of structure to campaign donations, with political elites increasingly less likely to contribute across party lines. The results offer a compelling example of parties overcoming institutions designed to eliminate them.