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How Polarized is Wisconsin’s legislature?

By Frederica Freyberg | Here & Now

July 26, 2019

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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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