ABSTRACT
This chapter pulls apart three phenomena that strike me as routinely confused in popular and academic discussions of civility: (a) partisanship involves party loyalty; (b) polarization involves ideological separation and purity; and (c) incivility involves a failure to engage with one’s fellow citizens in the project of collective self-rule. These are independent of one another, though they might interact in interesting ways, and getting clear on their difference from one another would be valuable in framing useful research questions.
