{"id":66787,"date":"2015-05-02T09:08:32","date_gmt":"2015-05-02T14:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=66787"},"modified":"2015-04-25T22:09:28","modified_gmt":"2015-04-26T03:09:28","slug":"six-decades-of-increasing-partisanship-in-the-u-s-house-of-representatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2015\/05\/02\/six-decades-of-increasing-partisanship-in-the-u-s-house-of-representatives\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Decades of Increasing Partisanship in the U.S. House of Representatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It sure seems like U.S. Democrats and Republicans are less likely to cooperate than they have been in the past and now, thanks to geographer Clio Andris and her\u00a0colleagues, we can <a href=\"http:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pone.0123507\" target=\"_blank\">see that it&#8217;s true<\/a>. They plotted six decades of voting in the House of Representatives, noting the likelihood that their vote will cross party lines.<\/p>\n<p>This is your image of the week:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2015\/04\/44.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-66788\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2015\/04\/44-500x644.png\" alt=\"4\" width=\"500\" height=\"644\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2015\/04\/44-500x644.png 500w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2015\/04\/44-795x1024.png 795w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2015\/04\/44.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Or, here&#8217;s the long story short:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2015\/04\/82.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-66789\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2015\/04\/82-500x115.png\" alt=\"8\" width=\"500\" height=\"115\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2015\/04\/82-500x115.png 500w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2015\/04\/82-1024x235.png 1024w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2015\/04\/82.png 1073w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It sure seems like U.S. Democrats and Republicans are less likely to cooperate than they have been in the past and now, thanks to geographer Clio Andris and her\u00a0colleagues, we can see that it&#8217;s true. They plotted six decades of voting in the House of Representatives, noting the likelihood that their vote will cross party [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":66790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[253,3920,85,234],"class_list":["post-66787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-history","tag-nation-united-states","tag-politics","tag-democracy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2015\/04\/11.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66787"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66793,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66787\/revisions\/66793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}