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== Politics == [[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-H12751, Godesberg, Vorbereitung Münchener Abkommen.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.2|alt=Chamberlain and Hitler leave the Bad Godesberg meeting, 1938|Chamberlain (left) and Hitler, 1938.]] In international politics, compromises often discussed include infamous deals with dictators, such as [[Neville Chamberlain]]'s [[appeasement]] of [[Adolf Hitler]]. Margalit calls these "rotten compromises."<ref>{{cite book | last=Margalit | first=Avishai | title=On Compromise and Rotten Compromises | publisher=Princeton University Press | year=2009 | isbn=978-0-691-13317-1}}</ref> In the United States and other democratic countries {{clarification needed|date=July 2023}}, many politicians of recent times [[permanent campaign|permanently campaign]] to gain reelection. Thus, United States Ambassador to Germany [[Amy Gutmann]] and political scientist [[Dennis F. Thompson]] have observed that compromise is more difficult.<ref>{{cite book | last1=Gutmann | first1=Amy | last2=Thompson | first2=Dennis Frank | title=The Spirit of Compromise | year=2012 | publisher=Princeton University Press | isbn=978-0-691-15391-9}}</ref> The problem of political compromise in general is an important subject in [[political ethics]]. Politicians being willing to compromise can reduce [[partisanship]] and hostility. Politics is sometimes called the "art of compromise".<ref>{{Cite web |title=Finding the Middle Ground: The Art of Governing (Or "Compromise" is not a four-letter word) |url=https://iop.harvard.edu/get-involved/study-groups/finding-middle-ground-art-governing-or-%E2%80%9Ccompromise%E2%80%9D-not-four-letter-word |access-date=2022-07-14 |website=The Institute of Politics at Harvard University |language=en}}</ref> Polling by the American Survey Center indicates that Americans take a favorable view of political compromise.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Public views of political compromise and conflict and partisan misperceptions |url=https://www.americansurveycenter.org/research/public-views-of-political-compromise/ |access-date=2022-07-14 |website=The Survey Center on American Life |language=en}}</ref>
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