Contents - Introduction; The Problem of Thomas Hobbes; Formalistic Views of Representation; 'Standing For' - Descriptive Representation; 'Standing For' - Symbolic Representation; Representing as 'Acting For' - The Analogies; The Mandate ...

Ever since its first publication in 1992, The End of History and the Last Man has provoked controversy and debate. Francis Fukuyama's prescient analysis of religious fundamentalism, politics, scientific progress, ethical codes, and war is as essential for a world fighting fundamentalist terrorists as it was for the end of the Cold War. Now updated with a new afterword, The End of History and the Last Man is a modern classic.

A survey of democratic institutions and republics reveals the aristocratic origins of democracy.

Contradictions of the Welfare State is the first collection of Offe's essays to appear in a single volume in English, and it contains a selection of his most important recent work on the breakdown of the post-war settlement.

Introduction : compromise and disagreement / Christian F. Rostbøll and Theresa Scavenius -- Compromise and toleration : responding to disagreement / Christian F. Rostbøll -- No compromise on racial equality / Simon Cabulea May -- Compromise and the value of widely accepted laws / Fabian Wendt -- The ethics of compromise / Daniel M. Weinstock -- Compromise as a normative ideal for pluralistic politics / Manon Westphal -- Political compromise in party democracy : an overlooked puzzle in Kelsen's democratic theory (...) / David Ragazzoni -- Compromise, value pluralism, and democratic liberalism / Patrick Overeem -- Are compromises more inclusive of non-liberals? / Tore Vincents Olsen -- Public epistemology as a compromise : why should we agree to disagree? / Aurélia Bardon -- Compromise and political language / Michael Freeden -- The role of political and self-representation in compromise / Alin Fumurescu. (shrink)

Includes bibliographical references and index.