 | Sir Henry Parkes - Australia - 1876 - 498 pages
...conciliation ; a readiness to compromise ; a willingness to concede something to opponents, and to shape good measures so as to be as little offensive as possible...take — as it has been called — between two Houses ie a perpetual school, useful as such even now, and its utility would probably be even more felt in... | |
 | William Waldegrave Palmer Earl of Selborne - Legislative bodies - 1913 - 224 pages
...conciliation, a readiness to compromise, a willingness to concede something to opponents, and to shape good measures so as to be as little offensive as possible...of opposite views, and of this salutary habit the mental give and take between two Houses is a perpetual school, useful as such even now, and its usefulness... | |
 | History - 1919 - 236 pages
...conciliation, a readiness to compromise, a willingness to concede something to opponents, and to shape good measures so as to be as little offensive as possible...as such even now, and its utility would probably be more felt in a more democratic constitution of the Legislature." Nor have- I ever ceased to urge the... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Representative government and representation - 1919 - 160 pages
...readiness to compromise ; a willingness to concede something to opponents, and to shape good measures BO as to be as little offensive as possible to persons of opposite views; and of this 'alutary habit, the mutual give and take (as it has been called) between two Houses is a perpetual... | |
 | Mads Qvortrup, Matt Qvortrup - Political Science - 2002 - 200 pages
...conciliation: a readiness to compromise; a willingness to concede something to opponents, and to shape good measures so as to be as little offensive as possible to persons of opposite views'.9 This definition of democracy has usually led theoreticians and practitioners to the conclusion... | |
 | Mads Qvortrup, Matt Qvortrup - Political Science - 2005 - 212 pages
...conciliation: a readiness to compromise; a willingness to concede something to opponents, and to shape good measures so as to be as little offensive as possible to persons of opposite views' (1991, 385). This understanding of democracy has usually led theoreticians and practitioners to the... | |
 | R. A. W. Rhodes, Sarah A. Binder, Bert A. Rockman - Business & Economics - 2006 - 852 pages
..."conciliation: a readiness to compromise; a willingness to concede something to opponents, and to shape good measures so as to be as little offensive as possible to persons of opposite views" (Mill 1984, 353). The context for Mill's analysis of conciliatory conduct is bicameralism which, in... | |
 | Nadia Urbinati, Alex Zakaras - Philosophy - 2007 - 349 pages
...... is the readiness to compromise, a willingness to concede something to opponents and to shape good measures so as to be as little offensive as possible to persons of the opposite view" (CRG, CW XIX: 514). The "mutual give and take" is so important that democratic institutions... | |
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One of the most indispensable requisites in the practical conduct of politics, especially in the management of free institutions, is conciliation; a readiness to compromise; a willingness to concede something to opponents, and to shape good measures so... 