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08612n51k9f	Anne Elizabeth Baker	The Electoral Causes of Party Polarization in Congress	2011		.txt	text/plain	217	6	30	I find party leaders helped make congressional caucuses more ideologically homogeneous over time by providing party support to ideological challengers and open-seat contestants and thereby significantly improving their likelihood of gaining seats; by targeting resources toward races against moderate incumbents of the opposite party with great success; and by providing party monies to protect their own moderate incumbents at the expense of making those incumbents more vulnerable to seat-challenges and targeting by the other party. In response to this lacuna, in this dissertation I present evidence that over the past thirty years party leaders have helped bring about party polarization in Congress in the way they have distributed party campaign funds to candidates.	cache/08612n51k9f.txt	txt/08612n51k9f.txt