Michaels Anmerkung: MdP beschäftigt sich intensiv mit der Analyse und Visualiserung von Beziehungsgeflechten. Die ersten Eigenproduktion sind in Arbeit. So stay tuned. 

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It’s news to no one that Congress has had a hard time passing legislation in recent years. Some have even asserted that partisanship in Washington has reached historic levels. But how do we put the current divide in perspective? A group of researchers recently tried to quantify and visualize House partisanship in a paper published in PLoS ONE.

To understand what is being displayed:

• Each dot represents a member of the U.S. House of Representatives
• Connection lines represent when two members voted the same way
• Connection line thickness represents how often they voted together during each 2-year period
• Dot size based on the total number of connections
• Color represents political party