partisan
We need less partisanship in government.
It was a time of bitter political partisanship.
The leaders wanted no part of such extreme partisanship.

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ableism
ableist
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agist
Anglocentric
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discriminative
discriminatorily
discriminatory
drumhead
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one-sidedly
one-sidedness
one-way
the old school tie
two-tier
unbalance
unequal
unequally
uneven

Examples of partisanship

partisanship
Depending on which variables are included in the model, partisanship effects are positive or negative, significant or insignificant.
We argue that the driving force behind the evolution of indirect taxes lies in the relationship between government partisanship and the organization of economic institutions.
To account for the impact of partisanship/ideology on protest potential in multivariate estimations, we included variables measuring people's left-right ideology and ideological extremism.
Partisanship is a meaningful identification for nearly all citizens, while a much lower proportion of the public is ideologically adept.
To the extent that partisanship matters, it can reasonably be assumed to be part of the ' 'error term' ' of any model of focusing event dynamics.
A more systematic examination of the role of partisanship in election contests appears in the following section.
Looking at government partisanship, we find a problem similar to that which occurs for consensual majoritarian politics: fragile estimates.
When we introduce other factors into our analysis, however, the effects of government partisanship are transformed.
They were highly correlated and registered very similar rates of partisanship.
Since this variable is measured in the direction of strong partisanship, we would expect this variable to have a negative impact on split-ticket voting.
All three objectives could be contained within the left-right, socialist/anti-socialist class issue dimension which was, in any case, becoming the dominant influence on partisanship.
These links are formed through social interaction, and so family and friends are as important as the workplace in the development of partisanship.
Political distrust tends to be associated with high partisanship, particularly where one's preferred party is out of office for a long time.
They interpreted these differences as representing an increasing level of partisanship as voters increased in age.
Is it the case that age differences in partisanship are explained by length of time in the electorate, or are they explained by generational differences?
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