Fig. 16From: Spheres of legislation: polarization and most influential nodes in behavioral contextIdeal points of Sphere 1 (Security & Armed Forces): The ideal point distributions of Democratic (blue +) and Republican (red x) senators, scaled linearly between \(-1\) and 1 are shown. The distance between the mean ideal points of the two parties is 0.754. It shows that Democratic and Republican senators are ideologically close to each other when it comes to national securityBack to article page