On Political Compromise (A Value-Centered Analysis)

Author: Long Taijiang
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Publish Date: 2004-10-01
Features: This book analyzes some fundamental issues of political compromise, a common phenomenon in political life, from the perspective of combining norms and empirical evidence with a value-centered approach. Human politics is also a form of conflict politics, so moving from conflict to consensus is one of the fundamental tasks of politics. In modern society, especially under democratic politics, political compromise is an important mechanism for achieving social consensus. At the same time, political compromise plays a positive role in many aspects of the healthy functioning of social politics. Therefore, objectively understanding and evaluating political compromise with an unbiased and ordinary mindset should be a basic requirement for modern society's political individuals. This book focuses on analyzing and arguing the following main points:
(1) Political compromise is a fundamental way to resolve political conflicts, and the conflictual nature of politics determines that political compromise is a common basic political phenomenon in political life.
(2) The emergence of political compromise has objective rational reasons, and political compromise is a necessary public rationality in political life.
(3) Political compromise has significant value in political life: from the perspective of actuality, the emphasis on power constraints in democratic politics inevitably leads to compromise among different powers, and representative democracy is actually a form of compromise-based democracy; from the perspective of necessity, political compromise is the price freedom must pay, and the spirit of compromise is a prerequisite for democratic politics; from the perspective of political development, political compromise is a very important strategy in revolutionary struggles and plays a significant role in the modernization processes of early-developing and late-developing countries. Finally, the book further analyzes the positive significance of political compromise for democratic politics, it is an important way to cultivate social capital for democratic politics.