How American MPs are separated on either side of the corridor citing scientific letters.Credit: Through Saul Loaib/AFP Getty
The United States is known for deep polarization between its two major political parties-South Republican and leftist Democrats. The analysis of hundreds of thousands of policy documents now reveals striking differences in the use of partisan policy makers of scientific literature, more likely to cite research papers than its right -wing counterparts with the Democratic Congress committees and leftist think tanks.
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Analysis also suggests that Democrats and Left-Caning Think Tanks cite high-effects research, and both political aspects rarely cite the same study or similar subjects.
Alexander Fernas, a political scientist at the Northwestern University in Illinois and a co-author of Illinois, says, “There are striking differences in the volume, content and character quantity, content and character quoted by partisan policy makers.” AnalysisPublished1 In Science On 24 April.
Researchers use government-policy database Overson In 1995-2021, to collect around 50,000 policy documents manufactured by the US Congress Committees and 121 ideologically operated around 200,000 reports from the US Think Tank in a similar period. These documents had 424,000 scientific references.
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A statistical analysis has shown that the Congress report is now more likely to cite science papers than before. However, in the cycle of Congress every two -year, there was more likely to cite research papers in documents of committees under Democratic Control, and there is an increase in the gap between the two parties (see ‘Science in American Congress’). Overall, the documents of the democratic-controlled committees were about 1.8 times higher the possibility of citing science, which was reported by the Republican-led people.
