Cooperative party factions in American politics

摘要: What are the primary factions within Democratic and Republican parties, to what extent do rival cooperate? We address these questions using a unique data set of information sharing between party organizations, media outlets, 527s, interest groups. Using social network methods, we identify two major information-sharing clusters, or expanded networks; networks correspond liberal/Democratic grouping conservative/Republican grouping. further each network, but find high degree cooperation factions. That is, our suggest that beneath intraparty disagreements observe in elections policy debates there is subterranean pattern organizational cooperation.