On the Uses and Abuses of Political Apologies

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction....Pages 1-9
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
Beyond the Ideal Political Apology....Pages 13-31
Political Apologies and Categorical Apologies....Pages 32-51
Front Matter....Pages 53-53
From Mea Culpa to Nostra Culpa: A Reparative Apology from the Catholic Church?....Pages 55-75
The Power of Ritual Ceremonies in State Apologies: An Empirical Analysis of the Bilateral Polish-Russian Commemoration Ceremony in Katyn in 2010....Pages 76-95
Confessing the Holocaust: The Evolution of German Guilt....Pages 96-115
Front Matter....Pages 117-117
Revisiting the ‘Membership Theory of Apologies’: Apology Politics in Australia and Canada....Pages 119-137
The Canadian Apology to Indigenous Residential School Survivors: A Case Study of Renegotiation of Social Relations....Pages 138-153
What Makes a State Apology Authoritative? Lessons from Post-Authoritarian Brazil....Pages 154-169
Front Matter....Pages 171-171
The Apology in Democracies: Reflections on the Challenges of Competing Goods, Citizenship, Nationalism and Pluralist Politics....Pages 173-185
An Apology for Public Apologies?....Pages 186-202
Reasoning Like a State: Integration and the Limits of Official Regret....Pages 203-219
Back Matter....Pages 220-246