• DOI:10.1177/1532440014564984
Corpus ID: 156175167

Polarization without Parties

@article{Masket2014PolarizationWP,
  title={Polarization without Parties},
  author={S. Masket and B. Shor},
  journal={State Politics & Policy Quarterly},
  year={2014},
  volume={15},
  pages={67 - 90}
}

S. Masket, B. Shor

Published 2014

Political Science

State Politics & Policy Quarterly

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… CONTINUE READING

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