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How Polarized is Wisconsin’s legislature?
Clip: Season 1800 Episode 1804 | 5m 36sVideo has Closed Captions
UW-Green Bay political scientist Aaron Weinschenk talks about legislative partisanship.
A new WisContext report shows the Wisconsin legislature is the most partisan-polarized in recent history. The study’s author, UW-Green Bay political scientist Aaron Weinschenk, discusses how legislators’ roll call votes help shape the metric of partisanship and how the state’s districts place more importance on partisan primaries.
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Here and Now is a local public television program presented by PBS Wisconsin
Here and Now
How Polarized is Wisconsin’s legislature?
Clip: Season 1800 Episode 1804 | 5m 36sVideo has Closed Captions
A new WisContext report shows the Wisconsin legislature is the most partisan-polarized in recent history. The study’s author, UW-Green Bay political scientist Aaron Weinschenk, discusses how legislators’ roll call votes help shape the metric of partisanship and how the state’s districts place more importance on partisan primaries.
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