Though political theorists have emphasized the importance of political discussion in non-political spaces, past study of online political discussion has focused on primarily political websites. Using a random sample from Blogger.com, we find that 25% of all political posts are from blogs that post about politics less than 20% of the time, because the vast majority of blogs post about politics s...

This article surveys recent work in pragmatism and political theory. In doing so, it shows both how on has secured the view that at its core is a set of arguments about character democracy – although those open to debate reimagination pragmatist have been reinterpreted deployed address contemporary concerns approaches. charts terrain live disagreements rather than settled opinion.

This study tested hypotheses generated from an integrative model of political tolerance that derived hypotheses from a number of different social psychological theories (e.g., appraisal tendency theory, intergroup emotion theory, and value protection models) to explain political tolerance following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. A national field study (N = 550) found that immediate ...