NOMOS
Harvard University Press
I Authority 1958, reissued in 1982 by Greenwood Press
The Liberal Arts Press
II Community 1959
III Responsibility 1960
Atherton Press
IV Liberty 1962
V The Public Interest 1962
VI Justice 1963, reissued in 1974
VII Rational Decision 1964
VIII Revolution 1966
IX Equality 1967
X Representation 1968
XI Voluntary Associations 1969
XII Political and Legal Obligation 1970
XIII Privacy 1971
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XIV Coercion 1972
Lieber-Atherton Press
XV The Limits of Law 1974
XVI Participation in Politics 1975
New York University Press
XVII Human Nature in Politics 1977
XVIII Due Process 1977
XIX Anarchism 1978
XX Constitutionalism 1979
XXI Compromise in Ethics, Law, and Politics 1979
XXII Property 1980
XXIII Human Rights 1981
XXIV Ethics, Economics, and the Law 1982
XXV Liberal Democracy 1983
XXVI Marxism 1983
XXVII Criminal Justice 1985
XXVIII Justification 1985
XXIX Authority Revisited 1987
XXX Religion, Morality, and the Law 1988
XXXI Markets and Justice 1989
XXXII Majorities and Minorities 1990
XXXIII Compensatory Justice 1991
XXXIV Virtue 1992
XXXV Democratic Community 1993
XXXVI The Rule of Law 1994
XXXVII Theory and Practice 1995
XXXVIII Political Order 1996
XXXIX Ethnicity and Group Rights 1997
XL Integrity and Conscience 1998
XLI Global Justice 1999
XLII Designing Democratic Institutions 2000
XLIII Moral and Political Education 2001
XLIV Child, Family, and State 2002
XLV Secession and Self-Determination 2003
XLVI Political Exclusion and Domination 2004
XLVII Humanitarian Intervention 2005
XLVIII Toleration and Its Limits 2008
XLIX Moral Universalism and Pluralism 2008
L Getting to the Rule of Law 2011
LI Transitional Justice 2012
LII Evolution and Morality 2012
LIII Passions and Emotions 2012
LIV Loyalty 2013
LV Federalism and Subsidiarity 2014
LVI American Conservatism 2016
LVII Immigration, Emigration, and Migration 2017
LVIII Wealth 2017
LIX Compromise 2018
NOMOS LIX
Yearbook of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Knight, Jack, 1952 editor.
Title: Compromise / edited by Jack Knight.
Description: New York : New York University Press, 2018. | Series: Nomos ; LIX | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017038143 | ISBN 9781479836369 (cl : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Political ethics. | Compromise (Ethics)
Classification: LCC JA79 .C648 2018 | DDC 172--dc23
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Jack Knight
This volume of NOMOSthe 59th in the seriesemerged from papers and commentaries given at the annual meeting of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy in Chicago, Illinois on February 2728, 2014, held in conjunction with the annual meeting of the American Philosophical Association. Our topic, Compromise, was selected by the Societys membership.
The conference consisted of three panels: (1) Compromise and Negotiation, (2) The Problem of Clean Hands: Legislative Compromise and Obstructivism, and (3) Democratic Conflict and the Political Morality of Compromise. The volume includes revised versions of the principal papers delivered at that conference by Eric Beerbohm, Amy Cohen, and Michele Moody-Adams. It also includes essays that developed out of the original commentaries on those papers by Simon May, Melissa Schwartzberg, Anton Ford, David Dyzenhaus, Amy Sepinwall, and Andrew Sabl. After the conference we asked Alexander Kirshner to contribute an additional paper to the volume. We are grateful to all of these authors for their insightful contributions.
Thanks are also due to the editors and production team at New York University Press, and particularly to Caelyn Cobb and Alexia Traganas. On behalf of the Society we wish to express our gratitude for the Presss ongoing support for the series and the tradition of interdisciplinary scholarship that it represents.
Finally, thanks to Samuel Bagg and Isak Travnik of Duke University for providing expert assistance during the editorial and production phases of this volume.