The Shame of Compromise? The Politics of Education and the Education of Politics

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Contents VII
4. List of Contributors IX
5. Introduction: Theoretical and Historical Perspectives on Compromise 1
6. Section I: Theoretical Perspectives
7. The Concept of Compromise Revisited 11
8. The Fragility of Compromise 45
9. There Are Epistemic Reasons to Compromise 65
10. The Shame of Compromise? The Politics of Education and the Education of Politics 87
11. A Comparative Conceptual Exploration of Inter- and Intra-Personal Compromise 105
12. Section II: Compromise in Japan
13. Settling Disputes to Avoid Troubles: Compromise and Law in Early Medieval Japan 125
14. Compromise in Noh Theater Performance: The Relationship between Actor and Audience in the Fifteenth Century 153
15. Compromise in Deliberative Democracy and Civic Education 169
16. Section III: Compromise in Europe
17. Behind the Facade? Some Remarks on Consensus and the Possibility of Other Forms of Decision-Making in Medieval Narrative Sources 195
18. Between Conflict and Cooperation: Compromise in the Late Medieval Feud 221
19. Switzerland as Compromise? The Federal State since 1848 between Reconciliation and Exclusion 243
20. Compromise in Politics and the Politics of Compromise: The Example of Switzerland 265
21. Searching for a “Golden Mean”: The Bavarian State’s Arrangements with the House of Wittelsbach during the Weimar Republic 285
22. The Power of the Purse: Budget Laws and Cultures of Compromise in the Second Empire, Weimar, and Bonn 307
23. Compromise in Theory and History: Summaries and Future Research Perspectives 331
24. Persons Index 345
25. Places Index 349