Mihaela Mihai & Mathias Thaler 
On the Uses and Abuses of Political Apologies [PDF ebook] 

1. Introduction; Mihaela Mihai and Mathias Thaler PART I: THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS 2. Beyond the Ideal Political Apology; Alice Mac Lachlan 3. Political Apologies and Categorical Apologies; Nick Smith PART II: RITES AND RITUALS OF REGRET 4. From Mea Culpa to Nostra Culpa: A Reparative Apology from the Catholic Church?; Danielle Celemajer 5. The Power of Ritual Ceremonies in State Apologies: An Empirical Analysis of the Bilateral Polish-Russian Commemoration Ceremony in Katyn in 2010; Michel-Andre Horelt 6. Confessing the Holocaust: The Evolution of German Guilt; Stefan Engert PART III CHALLENGING CASES 7. Revisiting the ‘Membership Theory of Apologies’: Apology Politics in Australia and Canada; Melissa Nobles 8. The Canadian Apology to Indigenous Residential School Survivors: A Case Study of Re-Negotiation of Social Relations; Neil Funk-Unrau 9. What Makes a State Apology Authoritative? Lessons from Post-Authoritarian Brazil; Nina Schneider PART IV: OBSTACLES AND LIMITATIONS 10. The Apology in Democracies: Reflections on the Challenges of Competing Goods, Citizenship, Nationalism and Pluralist Politics; Michael Cunningham 11. An Apology for Public Apologies; Juan Espindola 12. Reasoning Like a State: Integration and the Limits of Official Regret; Cindy Holder

Danielle Celermajer, University of Sydney, Australia Michael Cunningham, University of Wolverhampton, UK Stefan Engert, J. W. Goethe University Frankfurt/Main, Germany Juan Espindola, National University of Mexico Neil Funk-Unrau, Menno Simons College, Canada Cindy Holder, University of Victoria, Canada Michel-André Horelt, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Germany Alice Mac Lachlan, York University, Canada Melissa Nobles, Massachusetts Insitute of Technology, USA Nina Schneider, University of Konstanz, Germany Nick Smith, University of New Hampshire, USA