Partisan Conflict Index

Tracks the degree of political disagreement among U.S. politicians at the federal level.

10 Apr ’24

PCI Data

Excel spreadsheet

Questions

For additional information about this index, e-mail PHIL.PCI@phil.frb.org

Resources

The Partisan Conflict Index is an outgrowth of research detailed in Azzimonti, Marina (2014), “Partisan Conflict,” Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Working Paper 14-19.

Additional analysis is available in Azzimonti, Marina (2018), “Partisan Conflict and Private Investment,” Journal of Monetary Economics 93, pp. 114–131.

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