Download or read book Diverging Parties written by Jeffrey M. Stonecash and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-28 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Party polarization in the House of Representatives has increased in recent decades. Explaining this development has been difficult, given current interpretations of American elections. The dominant framework for interpreting elections has been to see them as candidate-centered, or individualistic. This framework may have seemed appropriate as a way