Alexander Ruser - Against Political Compromise: Sustaining Democratic Debate
Here you can read online Alexander Ruser - Against Political Compromise: Sustaining Democratic Debate full text of the book (entire story) in english for free. Download pdf and epub, get meaning, cover and reviews about this ebook. City: London, year: 2017, publisher: Routledge, genre: Science / Politics. Description of the work, (preface) as well as reviews are available. Best literature library LitArk.com created for fans of good reading and offers a wide selection of genres:
Romance novel
Science fiction
Adventure
Detective
Science
History
Home and family
Prose
Art
Politics
Computer
Non-fiction
Religion
Business
Children
Humor
Choose a favorite category and find really read worthwhile books. Enjoy immersion in the world of imagination, feel the emotions of the characters or learn something new for yourself, make an fascinating discovery.
- Book:Against Political Compromise: Sustaining Democratic Debate
- Author:
- Publisher:Routledge
- Genre:
- Year:2017
- City:London
- Rating:5 / 5
- Favourites:Add to favourites
- Your mark:
Against Political Compromise: Sustaining Democratic Debate: summary, description and annotation
We offer to read an annotation, description, summary or preface (depends on what the author of the book "Against Political Compromise: Sustaining Democratic Debate" wrote himself). If you haven't found the necessary information about the book — write in the comments, we will try to find it.
Political compromise is emerging as a preferred solution for numerous apparently intractable problems. Many have pointed to the rising degree of political polarisation around issues such as climate change, immigration and abortion. These are wicked problems that are clearly not conducive to any sort of political consensus. The groups and individuals who are party to these issues disagree, often both fully and fiercely. As an alternative, political compromise seemingly offers a way of respecting difference while simultaneously generating a decision upon which policy can move forward. But proponents of political compromise should also acknowledge its significant weaknesses and dangers. Invoking recent examples from various policy areas to illustrate their claims, the authors assert that compromise can disguise inequality, reduce plurality and heighten uncertainty. In short, compromise can weaken democracy and must not be seen as some sort of political panacea.This concise, accessible text offers a strong and provocative argument that provides a crucial counterpoint to the promise of compromise. It should prove of interest to students and scholars interested in compromise and consensus as well as democratic governance, social inequality, political apathy and environmental politics.
Alexander Ruser: author's other books
Who wrote Against Political Compromise: Sustaining Democratic Debate? Find out the surname, the name of the author of the book and a list of all author's works by series.
Alexander Ruser
Stanley Aronowitz
Eugene Goodheart
Robert Kimball
Jack Knight
Christian F. Rostboll
Eugene Goodheart
Rachel Greenwald Smith
Paul Zikopoulos
Margalit
Against Political Compromise: Sustaining Democratic Debate — read online for free the complete book (whole text) full work
Below is the text of the book, divided by pages. System saving the place of the last page read, allows you to conveniently read the book "Against Political Compromise: Sustaining Democratic Debate" online for free, without having to search again every time where you left off. Put a bookmark, and you can go to the page where you finished reading at any time.
Light
Font size:
↓
↑
Reset
Interval:
↓
↑
Bookmark:
Make
Against Political Compromise
Political compromise is emerging as a preferred solution for numerous apparently intractable problems. Many have pointed to the rising degree of political polarization around issues such as climate change, immigration and abortion. These are wicked problems that are clearly not conducive to any sort of political consensus. The groups and individuals who are party to these issues disagree, often both fully and fiercely. As an alternative, political compromise seemingly offers a way of respecting difference while simultaneously generating a decision upon which policy can move forward. But proponents of political compromise should also acknowledge its significant weaknesses and dangers. Invoking recent examples from various policy areas to illustrate their claims, the authors assert that compromise can disguise inequality, reduce plurality and heighten uncertainty. In short, compromise can weaken democracy and must not be seen as some sort of political panacea.
This concise, accessible text offers a strong and provocative argument that provides a crucial counterpoint to the promise of compromise. It should prove of interest to students and scholars interested in compromise and consensus as well as democratic governance, social inequality, political apathy and environmental politics.
Alexander Ruser is currently a senior researcher. He holds a PhD in Sociology from the Max-Weber-Institute of Sociology at Heidelberg University and was a Dahrendorf Fellow at the Hertie School of Governance, Berlin, and the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is currently researching the impact of expert knowledge in public deliberation and political decision-making in the current Euro-Crisis. Alexander is an active member of an international research network on social philosophy of science coordinated by the Russian Academy of Science.
Amanda Machin is a postdoctoral researcher at Zeppelin University, Germany. She holds a PhD in Political Theory from the University of Westminster, London, and previously held a research fellowship at the Institute of Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam. She is currently researching the interrelationship of climate change, citizenship, democracy and identity. Her books are Nations and Democracy: New Theoretical Perspectives (Routledge, 2015) and Negotiating Climate Change: Radical Democracy and the Illusion of Consensus.
At a time when the appeal of uncompromising populists is everywhere on the rise, the art of political compromise might seem indeed lost. Ruser and Machin issue a timely reminder of the towering importance of questioning and unveiling the conditions and constraints, the virtues and vices, of political compromise.
Nico Stehr FRSC, Karl-Mannheim Chair of Cultural Studies,
Zeppelin University
Zeppelin University
Through an engaging interrogation of theory and practice, the authors remind us of the need to think more critically about the motivations, process and outcomes of political compromise. An intriguing and provocative contribution to contemporary democratic theory.
Graham Smith, Professor of Politics, Centre for the Study of
Democracy, University of Westminster
Democracy, University of Westminster
Consensus, rational compromise, and deliberative democracy are the latest versions of the idea that reason can replace force in political life. Ruser and Machin make a timely and important contribution to democratic theory and the sociology of politics by explaining how social issues of trust, social capital and exclusion are inseparable from the process of deliberation, and show it does not allow us to escape from conflict, ineradicable difference, and uncertainty in a word, politics.
Stephen Turner, Distinguished University Professor,
University of South Florida
University of South Florida
Against Political Compromise
Sustaining Democratic Debate
Alexander Ruser and
Amanda Machin
Amanda Machin
First published 2017
by Routledge
2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN
and by Routledge
711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017
Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business
2017 Alexander Ruser and Amanda Machin
The right of Alexander Ruser and Amanda Machin to be identified as authors of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.
Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe.
British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
A catalog record for this book has been requested
ISBN: 9781472483959 (hbk)
ISBN: 9781315105024 (ebk)
Typeset in Times New Roman
by Apex CoVantage, LLC
This book is dedicated to our mothers, who taught us that at times it is of great importance to compromise and at other times it is not, and from whom we learned how we might begin to tell the difference.
Contents
- i
- ii
Guide
This book originated as a contribution to the conference Compromise and Disagreement organized by the Department of Political Science at Copenhagen University in May 2015. Compromise, it appeared to us, generally receives far more praise than does disagreement. And so we decided to emphasize the virtues of disagreeing and are very grateful for the agreeable opportunity to do so in Copenhagen. We would like to express our gratitude, too, to Chantal Mouffe, Rod Dacombe and Sophie von Waitz who provided critical comments on the manuscript. All remaining flaws and lacunae remain entirely our own responsibility.
Everyone compromises. The impossibility of living a life in which one never compromises on ones dreams is only avoidable when such dreams are either sadly lacking, or are so attuned to social reality that they might hardly be called dreams at all. Compromise can provide a workable settlement, if ultimately temporary and inevitably imperfect. If we value the relationship that brings us together with the other more than the issue that divides us, then compromise promises a way of overcoming quarrels and of underpinning commitment. And yet although everyone does it, compromise is not always easy. In making a compromise, one may be compromised, which is uncomfortable, frustrating and perhaps, in the end, unsustainable. This is why Chiara Lepora says that compromise always involves a wrongdoing (2012: 2). The question that arises, of course, is whether such wrongdoing is less wrong than not making a compromise in any particular situation, and answering this question is not always easy either.
Compromises are, at best, second-best choices (Margalit 2010: 5). Where no one is able to win outright, compromise allows them to avoid losing entirely. Where full agreement cannot be forged, compromise allows the continuation of disagreement. Compromise is located somewhere between consensus and capitulation, constituting a potentially useful tool for manoeuvring between distinct positions that are often passionately held and strongly opposed. It exists in perhaps all areas of social life; personal relationships, economic transactions and ethical quandaries. In this small book we focus upon compromise
Light
Font size:
↓
↑
Reset
Interval:
↓
↑
Bookmark:
Make
Similar books «Against Political Compromise: Sustaining Democratic Debate»
Look at similar books to Against Political Compromise: Sustaining Democratic Debate. We have selected literature similar in name and meaning in the hope of providing readers with more options to find new, interesting, not yet read works.
Stanley Aronowitz
Eugene Goodheart
Robert Kimball
Jack Knight
Christian F. Rostboll
Eugene Goodheart
Rachel Greenwald Smith
Paul Zikopoulos
Margalit
Reviews about «Against Political Compromise: Sustaining Democratic Debate»
Discussion, reviews of the book Against Political Compromise: Sustaining Democratic Debate and just readers' own opinions. Leave your comments, write what you think about the work, its meaning or the main characters. Specify what exactly you liked and what you didn't like, and why you think so.