Political science research on incivility considers only one judgement of what is uncivil, either by a single person or group. However, people often disagree about when politicians are uncivil. I argue that when studying politician incivility, we should capture this disagreement. Through two survey experiments, I show that Democrats and Republicans are less likely to find a comment to be uncivil when it is made by a co-partisan member of Congress compared to an out-partisan member of Congress.
