When I was in office, I often found myself second-guessing my own decisions. Did I give up too much on principle? Was there another path to the same goal without compromising? Is the compromise that emerged actually workable? This last is an important question. Any politician seeking to forge common ground with others has to weigh whether people — voters and colleagues outside the meeting room — will be willing to accept or at least tolerate a compromise.
As a lawmaker or officeholder seeking to move forward and faced with colleagues who may hold very different views, you need counterparts who know they need to make the system work and are willing to be flexible.
So when Americans complain about Congress not getting anything done, I have limited sympathy. This panel intends to focus on the relationship between compromise and contemporary democracies. How is it possible to articulate compromise — as a process or as an output — with theories of democracy, knowing that paradigms are not convergent on that question? On the one hand, some political theorists consider that compromise constitutes a necessary requisite for representative governments.
However, if the practice of compromise has occupied a significant place in party democracies since the end of the 19th century, the idea of compromise struggles to find a place in political values. Main questions In our workshop, we would like to focus on the following issues: How do we conceive of the value s of compromise in the context of democracy?
What are the normative and practical limits of compromising in democracies, and how do we evaluate the objections against compromising in such a context? What are the conditions of realising the principle of compromise in democracies? How do compromises operate as a guarantee of pluralism and an agent of moderation, notably in majority—minority relations?
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About Current Event Past Events. Did I give up too much on principle? Was there another path to the same goal without compromising? Is the compromise that emerged actually workable? This last is an important question. Any politician seeking to forge common ground with others has to weigh whether people — voters and colleagues outside the meeting room — will be willing to accept or at least tolerate a compromise.
As a lawmaker or officeholder seeking to move forward and faced with colleagues who may hold very different views, you need counterparts who know they need to make the system work and are willing to be flexible. So when Americans complain about Congress not getting anything done, I have limited sympathy. And those members are there because we sent them there.
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