Download or read book On the Uses and Abuses of Political Apologies written by Mihaela Mihai and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the complex nature of state apologies for past injustices, this probes the various functions they fulfil within contemporary democracies. Cutting-edge theoretical and empirical research and insightful philosophical analyses are supplemented by real-life case studies, providing a normative and balanced account of states saying 'sorry'.