| The Spirit of Compromise: Why Governing Demands It and Campaigning Undermines It Subjects: Political planning -- United States; Decision making -- United States; Compromise (Ethics) -- United States; Consensus (Social sciences) -- United States; Democracy -- United States; Why compromise is essential for effective government and why it is missing in politics today Amy Gutmann is president of the University of Pennsylvania, where she is also the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science in the School of Arts and Sciences and professor of communication in the Annenberg School of Communication. Dennis Thompson is the Alfred North Whitehead Professor of Political Philosophy at Harvard University. Gutmann and Thompson are coauthors of Why Deliberative Democracy? (Princeton) and Democracy and Disagreement . |