The fact that the United States government is deeply divided across company lines is no surprise , particularly to anyone who watched Democratic example recentlycamp outon the House floor for the well part of a day to protest Congressional inactiveness on hired gun restraint ( via Periscope , since Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan had declare a recess and shut off C - SPAN cameras ) .
But just how divided is Congress ? Last year , a grouping of researchers wait into cooperation and partiality in the U.S. House of Representatives over the last 60 years , compare meshwork of understanding on statute law in the House between 1949 and 2012 . The sketch ( as unearthed byBusiness Insider ) was publish in the journalPLOS ONE .
Compare the links between representative in the ' fifty to the early 2000s :
As the graphic shows ( Business Insiderhas an liveliness that help break it down in more particular ) , Congress has , in fact , been uprise ever more divided . There are few connections ( make up agreements on votes ) in the 2000s than there were in earlier decades .
This disagreement comes at a cost . A more shared out Congress get less done , as the researcher orient out ( and the late standoffs over gun ascendence in both the House and the Senate show ) . “ This is particularly apparent in the firm reduction of the turn of bills introduced onto the base , suggesting that the main damaging effect of increasing partisanship is a loss of Congressional innovation . ”
Just look at the meshwork for 2005 — a class when Congress metso few timesthat it outperform even the " do - nothing Congress " of 1948 .
[ h / tBusiness Insider ]
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