Having identified partisan phrases, the academics then analysed the news coverage of more than 400 American newspapers to see how often they cropped up in reporting.
In a paper published last year, a team of economists and a computer scientist tracked polarization by identifying "partisan phrases" in the Congressional Record and then searching, in Google Books, for those same phrases in more than two million books published in the United States in English since 1873.
Next, the researchers compared their partisan-phrase data set with the roll-call vote records compiled by McCarty, Poole, and Rosenthal.
"It's pro-partisan, is phrase that somebody used [to describe it].
It is instructive that the phrase "partisan gerrymandering" — the drawing of district lines by one party to disadvantage the other — is a redundancy.
He has spent his brief political career promoting "relentless positive action," in his oft-deployed and characteristically cheerful phrase, over partisan politics.
Neither the Harris pat, in Cole Porter's phrase, nor the partisan state judges can legitimate our national election.
In the late 1940s, in the Partisan Review, Baldwin coined the phrase "protest fiction," a derisive designation for those African-American themed novels in which black characters were too obviously victimized by their circumstances, or were made to seem too mythically sexual.
The argument is phrased in terms of "partisan gridlock," as if both parties were equally extreme.
Is it inflaming our deepening partisan divide or somehow, in Jon Stewart's phrase, "hurting America"?
Mrs. Clinton has spoken intensely about progressive policies, but she has long wanted to erase the caricature of herself as a partisan warrior — a "feminazi," as one 1990s phrase went.
