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Consensus democracy [1] is the application of consensus decision-making and supermajority to the process of legislation in a democracy.It is characterized by a decision-making structure that involves and takes into account as broad a range of opinions as possible, as opposed to majoritarian democracy systems where minority opinions can potentially be ignored by vote-winning majorities. [2]
The term is named after the American policy analyst and former senior vice president at Mackinac Center for Public Policy, Joseph Overton, who proposed that the political viability of an idea depends mainly on whether it falls within an acceptability range, rather than on the individual preferences of politicians using the term or concept.
Consensus spread abroad through the anti-globalization and climate movements, and has become normalized in anti-authoritarian spheres in conjunction with affinity groups and ideas of participatory democracy and prefigurative politics. [6] Poster for the Clamshell Alliance's first occupation of Seabrook Station Nuclear Power Plant, 1977
Hallin's spheres: sphere of consensus, sphere of controversy and sphere of deviance. Hallin's spheres is a theory of news reporting and its rhetorical framing posited by journalism historian Daniel C. Hallin in his 1986 book The Uncensored War to explain the news coverage of the Vietnam War. [1]
The book cover of Rael's book Geniocracy: Government of the People, for the People, by the Geniuses (Printed for the first time in English: 2008 Nova Distribution.). The term geniocracy comes from the word genius, and describes a system that is designed to select for intelligence and compassion as the primary factors for governance.
Politicisation (also politicization; see English spelling differences) is a concept in political science and theory used to explain how ideas, entities or collections of facts are given a political tone or character, and are consequently assigned to the ideas and strategies of a particular group or party, thus becoming the subject of contestation.
Voting booths may have officially closed, but a vulnerability in the U.S. economy remains wide open for inspection. With President-elect Donald Trump now set to lead the nation, the federal ...
The problem of political compromise in general is an important subject in political ethics. Politicians being willing to compromise can reduce partisanship and hostility. Politics is sometimes called the "art of compromise". [5] Polling by the American Survey Center indicates that Americans take a favorable view of political compromise. [6]