Over the years Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada has often been cited as a relatively chaotic legislature. the Scholars researching Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada have examined the causes of party indiscipline (e.g., Herron 2002a; Thames 2005, 2007a, 2016, 2007b; Whitmore 2002). Yet, few scholars have examined whether this indiscipline undermines the ability of parties to achieved their legislative agenda. Using roll-call and bill data from the Rada between 1998 and 2002, I analyze the costs of indiscipline. I find that while discipline for parties was often low, the costs of this indiscipline on floor votes was often low. Parties differed in the amount of costs they bore in predictable ways; however, the overall costs were not high. An analysis of agenda setting suggests that the agenda was controlled by parties to keep unpopular bills off the floor.
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Over the several decades, observers of American politics have noted the sharp increase in partisanship and ideological polarization among members of Congress. While better ideological differentiation may provide voters clearer choices and increase accountability, the results of recent partisan and ideological battles have raised questions about the impact pf polarization on good governance.While much scholarly effort has gone into studying the root causes on congressional polarization, such research has been hampered by its sole reliance on the US House and Senate for data on legislative polarization. But new data on polarization of state legislatures provided by Shor and McCarty (2011) and updated with the generous support of the John and Laura Arnold Foundation expands our capacity to uncover the political, economic, and social factors that underlie our increasingly polarized system.In this report, we review the evidence concerning the polarization of the US Congress and supplement it with analyses based on the experience of polarization in the US states. We show that while there is variation in polarization across states, in aggregate the patterns are very similar to the national experience. Moreover, analyses of the causes of polarization at the national level are generally confirmed by the data on the states. The richer data from the sates, however, allows us to address new sets of questions which suggest some limited opportunities for reforms targeted at reducing polarization.
{"title":"Partisan Polarization in the United States: Diagnoses and Avenues for Reform","authors":"N. McCarty, Boris Shor","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2714013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2714013","url":null,"abstract":"Over the several decades, observers of American politics have noted the sharp increase in partisanship and ideological polarization among members of Congress. While better ideological differentiation may provide voters clearer choices and increase accountability, the results of recent partisan and ideological battles have raised questions about the impact pf polarization on good governance.While much scholarly effort has gone into studying the root causes on congressional polarization, such research has been hampered by its sole reliance on the US House and Senate for data on legislative polarization. But new data on polarization of state legislatures provided by Shor and McCarty (2011) and updated with the generous support of the John and Laura Arnold Foundation expands our capacity to uncover the political, economic, and social factors that underlie our increasingly polarized system.In this report, we review the evidence concerning the polarization of the US Congress and supplement it with analyses based on the experience of polarization in the US states. We show that while there is variation in polarization across states, in aggregate the patterns are very similar to the national experience. Moreover, analyses of the causes of polarization at the national level are generally confirmed by the data on the states. The richer data from the sates, however, allows us to address new sets of questions which suggest some limited opportunities for reforms targeted at reducing polarization.","PeriodicalId":318939,"journal":{"name":"PSN: Legislative Parties (Legislatures) (Topic)","volume":"06 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128910355","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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.
{"title":"Polarization without Parties: Term Limits and Legislative Partisanship in Nebraska’s Unicameral Legislature","authors":"S. Masket, Boris Shor","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.1916342","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1916342","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":318939,"journal":{"name":"PSN: Legislative Parties (Legislatures) (Topic)","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132756740","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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