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What Is Civil Engaged Argument and Why Does Aspiring to It Matter?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2012

Kathleen Hall Jamieson
Affiliation:
University of Pennsylvania
Bruce Hardy
Affiliation:
Louisiana State University

Extract

To answer the question posed by the title of this article, we sketch what we mean by the concepts of civility and argument and engagement; note the ways in which the rise of partisan media menaces civil engaged argument; and close with analysis of an exchange between a prominent Democrat and Republican that illustrates the importance of common definitions and sources of trusted evidence.

Type
Symposium
Copyright
Copyright © American Political Science Association 2012

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