The spirit of compromise: Why governing demands it and campaigning undermines it

The Spirit of Compromise: Why Governing Demands It and Campaigning Undermines It

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 1-279

  Gutmann, Amy ^a   Thompson, Dennis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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