The Spirit of Compromise: Why Governing Demands It and Campaigning Undermines It

by Amy Gutmann (Author), Dennis Thompson (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2012

  $25.80

  Connects the rejection of compromise to the domination of campaigning over governing - the permanent campaign - in American democracy. This title shows that campaigning for political office calls for a mindset that blocks compromise - standing tenaciously on principle to mobilize voters and mistrusting opponents in order to defeat them.