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Dissent is an opinion, philosophy or sentiment of non-agreement or opposition to a prevailing idea or policy enforced under the authority of a government, political party or other entity or individual. A dissenting person may be referred to as a dissenter.
Consensus decision-making is a group decision-making process in which participants work together to achieve a broad acceptance. Consensus is reached when everyone in the group assents to a decision, even if some do not fully agree to or support all aspects of it. It differs from simple unanimity, which requires all participants to support a ...
Decision-making paradox: Selecting the best decision-making method is a decision problem in itself. Ellsberg paradox : People exhibit ambiguity aversion (as distinct from risk aversion ), in contradiction with expected utility theory.
When agreement cannot be reached through editing alone, the consensus-forming process becomes more explicit: editors open a section on the associated talk page and try to work out the dispute through discussion, using reasons based in policy, sources, and common sense; they can also suggest alternative solutions or compromises that may satisfy ...
The adjective bipartisan can refer to any political act in which both of the two major political parties agree about all or many parts of a political choice. Bipartisanship involves trying to find common ground, but there is debate whether the issues needing common ground are peripheral or central ones. [ 1 ]
Pseudocertainty effect, the tendency to make risk-averse choices if the expected outcome is positive, but make risk-seeking choices to avoid negative outcomes. [75] Status quo bias, the tendency to prefer things to stay relatively the same. [76] [77] System justification, the tendency to defend and bolster the status quo. Existing social ...
Disagree and commit is a management principle that individuals are allowed to disagree while a decision is being made, but that once a decision has been made, everybody must commit to implementing the decision. Disagree and commit is a method of avoiding the consensus trap, in which the lack of consensus leads to inaction.
Unanimity is agreement by all people in a given situation. Groups may consider unanimous decisions as a sign of social , political or procedural agreement, solidarity , and unity. Unanimity may be assumed explicitly after a unanimous vote or implicitly by a lack of objections.