Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Gabrielle Giffords
  • Preface / Carolyn J. Lukensmeyer
  • Introduction : a crisis of civility? / Robert G. Boatright
  • Two concepts of civility / Simon Anthony Laden
  • How people perceive political incivility / Ashley Muddiman
  • Perceptions of incivility in public discourse / Kate Kenski, Kevin Coe, and Stephen A. Rains
  • Signaling incivility : the role of speaker, substance and tone / Emily Sydnor
  • Showdowns, duels, and nail-biters : how aggressive strategic game frames in campaign coverage fuel public perceptions of incivility / Dannagal Goldthwaite Young, Lindsay Hoffman, and Danielle Roth
  • Crises and civility : Twitter discourse after school shootings / Deana A. Rohlinger and Cynthia Williams
  • Can civility and deliberation disrupt the deep roots of polarization? : attitudes toward Muslim Americans as evidence of hyperpolarized partisan worldviews / J. Cherie Strachan and Michael R. Wolf
  • Disentangling uncivil and intolerant discourse in online political talk / Patricia Rossini
  • Seeking a mutuality of tolerance : a practical defense of civility in a time of political warfare / John Gastil
  • The patron saint of civility? : Benjamin Franklin and the problems of civil discourse / Steven C. Bullock
  • Enabling civil discourse : creating civic space and resources for democratic discussion / Timothy J. Shaffer
  • Conclusion : the real morality of public discourse : civility as an orienting attitude / Deborah Mower.