Annemarie S. Walter is Assistant Professor in the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Nottingham, UK.

Introduction: The Study of Political Incivility and its Challenges Part 1: Political Incivility: Concept and Measurement 1. Civility Through the Comparative Lens: Challenges and Achievements 2. Words That Hurt Democracy: The Sticks and Stones of Anti-Democratic Discourse in Hungary and Germany 3. Measuring Incivility in Parliamentary Debates: Validating a Sentiment Analysis Procedure with Calls to Order in the Austrian Parliament Part 2: Political Incivility in the Parliamentary Arena 4. Legislative Conflict: Are Ideologues More Uncivil? 5. Contested Democracy and the Rise of Archaic Derogatory Language in the Polish Parliament Part 3: Political Incivility in the Electoral Arena 6. How the Emotion of Contempt can Help Explain Political Effects of Incivility 7. Voters' Emotional Responses to Negative Campaign Messages 8. A Whole New Ball Game or Not? A Comparative Analysis on the Content of the Print Media News and Tweets Circling the November 2015 Turkish Election 9. The 2016 EU Referendum Campaign on Social Media: Uncivil MPs and Campaign Groups? Part 4: Political Incivility in the Media Arena 10. Interactional Forms of Political Negativism in the Broadcast Political Interviews of the Campaign for the Italian Political Election of 2013 11. Will Fouls in Politics be Punished? An Experiment on the Effect of Incivility on the Support for the Sender and for the Political System 12. Rude by Nature? Political Cartoons and Political Incivility. Conclusion: The Study of Political Incivility and How to Move Forward