Disaggregating Civility: Politeness, Public-Mindedness and Their Connection

Democracy online: civility, politeness, and the democratic potential of online political discussion groups

The proponents of cyberspace promise that online discourse will increase political participation and pave the road for a democratic utopia. This article explores the potential for civil discourse in cyberspace by examining the level of civility in 287 discussion threads in political newsgroups. While scholars often use civility and politeness interchangeably, this study argues that this conflat...

Gender and Public Social Spending: Disaggregating Benefit Incidence

Disaggregating Input - Output Models

This Technical Document describes the steps to disaggregate an industry sector in an I-O table using Python. A disaggregation method that based on weight factors is used in this document. The calculation has three parts. The rst part is to calculate the disaggregated input matrix DIM, which represents all the input from common sectors into the new sectors. The second part is to calculate the di...

Workplace Civility: A Confucian Approach

Time-Mindedness and Jurisprudence

Gerald Postema offers a gentle but damning critique of contemporary analytic jurisprudence for being antisocial , anti-philosophical, ahistorical, and, ultimately, mistaken not only about the province of jurisprudence but the nature of law. He also offers an elegant restatement of what jurisprudence with a wider ambition must be like; and it is a jurisprudence in which time and history are cent...