partisan difference
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpartisananddifference
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partisan
adjective
uk/ˌpɑː.tɪˈzæn/us/ˈpɑːr.t̬ə.zən/
strongly supporting a person, principle, or political party, often without considering or judging the matter ...
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difference
noun
uk/ˈdɪf.ər.əns/us/ˈdɪf.ɚ.əns/
the way in which two or more things which you are comparing are not ...
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(Definition ofpartisananddifferencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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In the largest-swing years, by contrast, thepartisandifferenceis enormous: almost 9 percentage points in 1974 and about 6.5 in 1994.
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Therefore, it must be expected that an investigation of legislative outputs will find a largerpartisandifferencethan an analysis of outcomes.
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Do veto players and party competition account for the lack of a largerpartisandifference?
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This need not be a matter ofpartisandifference.
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On the other hand, veto player theory can contribute much to the explanation of the magnitude of partisan differences.
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As such, partisan differences were clear, upfront, and readily accessible to voters.
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Table 2 shows first that the two issues which neither party 'owned', crime and the deficit, manifested no partisan differences, as expected.
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It draws attention to such variables as constitutional and institutional differences, ideological and partisan differences, and the distribution of political power.
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We look first for partisan differences in the survivor function, but such effects are not evident in these graphs.
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This variable isolates systematic partisan differences in patronage practices.
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In this constellation party competition leads to the disappearance of partisan differences.
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Likely, the reason for this asymmetry is aggregate partisan differences on the tariff were much greater than for improvements.
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Partisan differences are weak in small swing years, including 1976 (0.95) and 1988 (0.01).
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At the individual level, the influence of religious commitment and doctrinal orthodoxy should be greatest when citizens find moral issues to be salient and recognize partisan differences on them.
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Partisan differences in command opportunities, moreover, show up even when we control for professionalism.
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There were also large partisan differences in some years ordinarily considered devoid of much national effect: 4.42 percentage points in 1986 and 5.41 percentage points in 1996.
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Partisan differences on civil rights were not especially stark.
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Partisan differences, therefore, should decrease the more similar the electorates of the competing parties are and the more heterogeneous the economic policy interests of each party's electorate are.
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Firstly, for twenty years there has been great continuity in this policy, which has always overshadowed partisan differences.
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Partisan differences and dislikes of privileges should not influence our considerations.
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