ls that he was able to deflect the public’s attention from his compromises, and focus it instead on his proudly proclaimed ideological beliefs. Institutional effectiveness requires officials with a relatively long time goals who see policy making as an ongoing process in which there are no final winners and should be no total losers.IV. A voice by all is not heard.The political bargaining table only has a limited number of seats. While all parties at the table must compromise amongst themselves, they are the lucky few to have a say in what will be compromised upon. Individual citizens rarely have political influence. Political influence requires that people be organized into lobbying groups of sufficient size and with sufficient resources to attract the attentions of elected officials. Politics is weak at compromise because politics artificially and unnecessarily limits the number of bargaining parties (Crew and Twight 1990; Twight 1994). Parties excluded from the table never have their interests on the table to be weighed against the interests of the select few sitting at the table. The interests of unorganized groups are ignored by political processes. Thus describing politics as the art of compromise is misleading because the value to interest groups using political process depends on the inability of other groups to organize effectively and join in the bargaining. Because of this advantage, interest groups have incentives to limit the number of parties sitting at the table. The end result is that the general, unorganized public typically are compromised by political compromise. If the public does not trust the institution, and does not understand the crucial role that bargaining and compromise play, it becomes much more difficult for politicians to make the hard choices.ConclusionCompromise is an ingredient of a democratic society that cannot be excluded. It has helped our society to be able to make changes, which without comp...
